Category: Poems for Children

My sister bit into an apple: An apple; red and round and firm. Inside to her surprise she found An ugly, wiggly, squirmy, worm. “To bite an apple with a worm Can cause you to feel sick”, I said. I told her it would have been worse, Had she found half a worm instead!

Do angels have wings? I’m sure I don’t know… But they must get there fast, Wherever they go. Do angels have wings? I know they can fly Because they all live Way up in the sky. Well, Superman flies Without any wings And protects little kids And all sorts of good things. Do angels have […]

A great big ugly bear Was coming after me. Great big bears can’t climb, So I went up a tree. Big bear clawed and growled, I was in the best of places; So I threw limbs at him, And made funny faces. Big bear went away, As mad as he could be. I was very […]

I sent my dog to dog school Because he wouldn’t obey. I wanted them to teach him How dogs are supposed to play. They said that he’s doing well, That he’s top dog in his class. He hasn’t learned to obey But he gets straight A’s in Sass. He came home last night and said […]

Mother has a reading chair, That we all gather around, When she reads a book to us We try not to make a sound. Sometimes when she is real tired, Mother tries to hurry through. She thinks that we won’t notice If she skips a page or two. We know all of the stories, We […]