Category: Poems for Children

Mommy makes me go to bed When I’m still wide awake, Then makes me get up in the morning When I’m still sleepy, for goodness’ sake! Bedtime is not something that many children look forward to. It is difficult for even the most experienced parent to make bedtime a happy time. When my children were […]

As I lay watching stars last night I got a funny feeling, Had monsters come into my room And gobbled up my ceiling?

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 […]