Category: Poems for Children

Valentine’s Day has come and gone And I am feeling kind of blue. I got a hundred Valentines But not a one of them from you. I checked my mailbox every day And it is kind of hard to do. But it would have been worth the trip If I had gotten one from you. […]

A little snowflake floating down, As it gets closer I can see A piece of nature’s finest art A lovely, lacy, filigree. No two alike, the poets claim, Songs of its beauty have been sung. But this one’s life has been cut short; I caught it on my warm moist tongue.

I like to walk barefoot in mud, I enjoy that squishy feeling! And then I track it in Mom’s house On the walls and floor and ceiling. Mom always knows that it was me But she won’t tell me how she knows. I wonder if it just might be, Her other kids don’t have twelve […]

I’ve got a secret hideout In a very secret place. I’m careful when I go there I don’t want to leave a trace. I’ll never tell my secret, Cross my heart and hope to die, I go there when I’m happy And sometimes I go to cry. Momma asked me where it is Daddy asked […]

I went to a costume party. They beat me black and blue. To go as a piñata Was a stupid thing to do.