Category: Poems for Children

I would not fly my kite Because it might get lost. One whole month’s allowance Is what my new kite cost. Bubba said to fly it. “Don’t be a stupid clown. ‘Cause whatever goes up, Always has to come down.” So I flew it today, Up so high you can’t see. Stuck up there forever […]

Her stupid puppy took my shoe And then he buried it outside. I couldn’t find out where it was Although I very often tried. The puppy’s grown into a dog. It’s been two years or four or three, And where he buried my old shoe There grows a rather nice shoetree.

Did you hear the story Of Little Jimmy Jones? A ‘gator ate him up, Ate him, hide, hair and bones. They told little Jimmy If he’d carry a light, Gators wouldn’t get him When he went out at night. Well, he took their word for it And that’s what’s kind of tough, He carried a […]

“Be an early bird,” Mother said, “The worm is Early Bird’s reward.” I have some thoughts, along that line, I’d like to mention in regard. The sunrise, I can live without, I never really cared for worms And Mom in case you didn’t know Those wiggly slimy things have germs!

I like to make a funny face To see how funny I can be. I like to do it most of all When Dad takes photographs of me. He sets us kids all in a row And says that we should all say cheese. That’s when I make the kind of face That Grandma says, […]