Category: Poems for Children

My mother thinks I’m silly For playing with my food. She says to see me do it Puts her in a terrible mood. Some kids I know have puppies, One has talking parrots. But I’d rather spend my time With tomatoes, corn and carrots. My mother thinks I’m silly But I don’t care at all. […]

Today while doing Daddy’s chores I made myself a mental note: When I get big and build my house I’m going to build it on a boat. I’ll build a big computer room, And I’ll play games from dark till dawn. Out on a boat there’ll be no grass, So I won’t have to mow […]

“Now what are you dreaming about?” The teacher asked Billy McCaw “About having a great big house And a million bucks like my pa.” “Your dad hasn’t got a big house, And a million bucks? I doubt it.” “Oh, pa ain’t got a million bucks, But he’s always dreamed about it.”

I sit and stare As my human eats Not because he sometimes Will slip me little treats I sit and stare, Don’t mean to be rude, Just to learn how he keeps His ears out of his food!

Centipedes have one hundred feet, Don’t you think that is kind of neat? An arachnid makes do with eight, Which seems to work out really great. All of the insects each have six With which they do all sorts of tricks. While cows and dogs get by with four And never have a need for […]