Category: Poems for Children

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.

I found a magic hat While walking in the mall. That is how I got so short, Although I had been rather tall. It said that I could wish for things And they’d appear out of thin air, And pile up on the hat’s broad brim; But warned that I should wish with care. At […]

I have a twinkle in my eyes And there’s a dimple in my chin. And sometimes when it pleases me I have a little impish grin. I have two dainty little feet With little dainty piggy toes. And nobody fails to notice All the freckles on my nose. I have a little birthmark star That […]