Category: Poems for Children

I pushed her high up in the sky, Where even eagles seldom fly. Was she scared, my fearless flyer? She just yelled, “Higher, Grampa, higher!”

They told me the surely best way Of getting my very own puppy Is to ask for some other pet And not something small like a guppy. They said don’t ask for a kitten ‘Cause that could be a mistake. Tell Mom you can’t live without A really big monstrous pet snake. Get pictures of […]

At recess she was there again today In hopes that I would notice her bold flirt. Her looks were nice if you ignored the dirt, Her blue eyes beckoned me to come and play. But did I want to leave my other friends To play with this lone girl whom most thought strange? My recess […]

They watched the tiger in his cage, The small boy standing by his dad. “If he got out,” the father said, “It surely would be very bad!” “The sign says it’s a man-eater,” The little boy quietly said. “If the tiger was to eat you, Doesn’t that mean that you’d be dead?” The dad, pleased […]

It’s an ugly little creature, My sister thinks that it’s a gnome. It sticks to things around the house Like bits of paper to a comb. I put it in a great big box And shipped it off to Uruguay. But it was back and stuck on me, Before the middle of the day. I […]