Category: Poems for Children

My best friend is a dragon, Little Donny is his name. He isn’t very pretty But I like him all the same. Last Sunday, Little Donny Got kicked out of the choir. They said that when he’d sneezed It had set his robe on fire. Then yesterday at recess, He had a terrible fight. With […]

That story of an elephant; I think it’s probably a lie, With ears that grew as big as wings So that the elephant could fly. I told Bob about the story, He always thinks that he’s so smart. He asked, “If big ears let you fly, Then just when do you plan to start?”

Yesterday out on the road I came upon a little toad. Flattened there by car or truck A graphic marker of bad luck. There was no cross beside the road With vase of flowers for the toad. The road was hot, the tar like glue And other things were stuck there too. We asked the […]

She had to walk to school and she didn’t want to go, She wanted to stay home and play out in the snow. It was winter’s coldest day and the walks were slick with ice, She had only fallen once, but she had to get up twice. When she finally got to school, she was […]

When I wake up in the night, I most always want a drink. But parents in their hurry Won’t ever take time to think. They try to give me water From the bathroom sink upstairs. But I want kitchen water, As if anybody cares.