Category: Poems for Children

I have a very good best friend Who likes to have the things I like, My baseball glove, my wooden bat My toys, my shoes, my pets, my bike. It might not always be so good To share in everything I do, ‘Cause yesterday I broke my arm Today at school, he broke his too!

I once read a poem All about a dumb cow Who jumped over the moon Though I don’t know just how. My mom said she’s been told Cows can jump very high. My dad who’s an expert Said he thinks it’s a lie. If she’s stuck on the moon, There’s no grass and no trees; […]

My Mommy made me very mad, So I thought that I’d run away. And when she made me eat liver, There was no way that I could stay! Then last night when she cooked spinach And put some on my plate to eat, I tried to feed it to the dog; That’s when my Daddy […]

“Don’t get too near that mule!” Gramps said, “He might look like he’s kind of dumb, But if you get too close to him, He’ll kick you to Kingdomcome!” That old mule didn’t look so mean, In fact, I thought he looked real nice… So I just strolled right up to him, Ignoring my grandpa’s […]

When he told how George confessed That he couldn’t tell a lie, It always brought a tear drop To my dear old Daddy’s eye. Now way back when a washtub In the kitchen was our bath To use our family’s toilet Meant you had to “walk the path.” We had a real nice outhouse; It […]