Category: Poems for Children

When you left me off at preschool, It was good you’d named me Tommy. Because Tommy’s what the teacher And the other kids all called me. Sister gave me some good advice: She said,”Don’t learn how to spell cat. Or you’ll get lots more words to spell And they’ll get harder after that”. Teacher taught […]

We were out in our back yard Roasting marshmallows on sticks, Around an outdoor fire pit, That our dad had made of bricks. That’s when we heard the siren And saw flames just down the street. Like moths drawn to a street light, We rushed there on flying feet. The owners, standing, watching The fire […]

Have you ever heard the tale Of how the slug was once a snail? He envied all the shells he saw But with his own he saw each flaw. One day a hermit crab came by, He had a shell that pleased Snail’s eye. Now hermit crabs are quick to trade And with the snail […]

Saturday night I lost my head When I had a terrible fight. I would have won the silly brawl But I completely lost my sight. I couldn’t hear just where he was And so he beat me black and blue. My ears were on my head, of course, It seems that I had lost them […]

My friend Ted has scribbleitis. He loves to scribble anywhere. Ted scribbles in his Sunday best. He scribbles in his underwear. He scribbled on his bedroom walls. He scribbled on his mother’s soap. When they took him to see a doctor Ted scribbled on his stethoscope. Last night while I was sound asleep And stretched […]