Welcome to the Children’s Poems section of my website. I hope these poems and verses for kids will instill a love for language, rhythm, and rhyme that encourages young people to think more deeply, imagine more fully, smile with new delight, or laugh right out loud. Children’s poems can also be pleasing to parents, educators, speakers, artists…anyone who is young at heart. May you have as much fun reading this poetry for kids as I did writing it!
FINDING THE POEM YOU WANT: As you scroll through this section, simply read each snippet sample (usually the first four lines) to get a feel for the poem. When you find something you like, click “CONTINUE READING” to view the entire poem.
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If I can get bigger and taller and tougher
and leaner and meaner and stronger and rougher,
then I can play basketball better and better,
and they’ll call me shooter and hoopster and netter!
I’m glad my birthday’s finally here.
I’ve waited for it one whole year.
I’m old enough to clean my room.
I’m old enough to weed.
I’m old enough to go to school
and old enough to read.
A little bird flew in my window,
much to my surprise.
He watched me rather quietly,
a question in his eyes.
A dad is an anchor when things go quite wrong
and a fan club when things go quite right.
He’s there to protect you when you’re super scared
of those things that go “bump” in the night.
Up the stairs with golden dust
the sandman softly sweeps.
The sky is in fluffy white pieces today…
a drift-covered mountain, aglow.
“I’m not getting any younger,”
said the spider to the fly.
“When into my web you blunder,
could you let me know you’re nigh?