Category: Poems for Children

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Boys’ Club

How did you get here, little bug? This is a most exclusive club. That you could even get inside Was someone’s monumental flub. This club’s exclusively for boys And girls are not allowed inside. So don’t you start to crawl away Or try to find some place to hide. You think that you have got […]

Don’t Play with Your Food

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. […]

Loose Tooth

My big front tooth is very loose And I am feeling kind of blue. I lost the one right next to it And now I’ll soon be missing two! The one who thinks it’s so funny Is my big  brother, Billy Bob. He told Mom, tonight for dinner That we should have corn on the […]

Reject

They all made fun of my old hound, He wasn’t the smartest dog around. He couldn’t fetch and he couldn’t sit, But I was as proud of him as spit. He never would chase a truck or a car; He just didn’t care to run all that far. Exertion, to him, was never a habit; […]

Obediance School

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 […]