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Best Nursery Rhyme Poems

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Premium Member Firefly Jamboree Nursery Rhyme
Christopher Cricket
Lived out in a thicket
With his musical family

They slept by day
Each night they would play
At the Firefly Jamboree

A chorus of frogs
Encamped in the bogs
Would...

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Categories: insect, music, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tom and Jerry Nursery Rhyme
Hickory, dickory, dock.
Jerry the mouse ran up the clock
Tom smelled him from afar
Jumped up on top like a star.

Jerry as always was quite wise.
And with...

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Categories: cat, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sandman Nursery Rhyme
When the Sandman’s near
I can almost hear
his soft footsteps breaking ground.
With his tender touch
my eyes feel so much
as he sprinkles sand around.

I don’t want to...

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Categories: children, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mustard Seed
The mustard seed 

a wild mustard seed took flight 
carried aloft in gathering light 
over thistle'd sage and poppies  
in countless colorful copies

as brash...

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Categories: nursery rhyme, children, earth, flower, nursery
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Bedtime Story
Once, a long ways away, and a long time ago
Lived a wee little man with his silly pet crow;
And once every day, as the sun...

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Categories: nursery rhyme, bird, children, nonsense, nursery
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Jack and Jill Re Written
Jack and Jill went up the hill
With thoughts of making love
Jack hadn’t got a condom 
So cut a finger off Jill’s glove
The glove was far...

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Categories: humorous, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Window Cleaner
Window cleaning is my trade and I want to tell my story
Like the time I saw the Vicars wife in the bath in all her...

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Categories: nursery rhyme, funeral, funny, humor, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mr Mouse
Mr. Mouse,
Mr. Mouse,
What are you doing,
In my house?

I smell cheese,
yummy cheese!
I would like some,
If you please?

One small bite,
Would bring delight,
Then I will leave,
Without a fight.

No...

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Categories: animal, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Build Play and Learn With Lego -
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Categories: nursery rhyme, children, color, fun, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Rattling Rhyme
Ride of the Scarecrow Clan

(To: Mittens) 

She was born in the corn on a cold misty morn,
the most beautiful cat on the farm.
(I must keep...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nursery rhyme, beautiful, cat, jealousy, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All Mothers Must Sing - a Song For the Bulldog
It was not long ago
By the reck'ning of things
You were yet a wee one
Yet under our wing-
But now you have grown up
Like snow follows Spring...

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Categories: nursery rhyme, baby, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Lyric
Lollipop Series- What I Love
Mommy deemed the three-year-old me as an honour
Said that I should become a doctor
Stethoscope and thermometer are in her gift bag
To spark the zeal in...

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Categories: nursery rhyme, birthday, boy, child, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Fruits Colours
An apple is Red,
I like eating bread,
Banana is yellow,
I am jolly fellow,
Pear is green,
I am neat and clean,
Coconut is brown,
I am little clown,
All fruits are...

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© Neha Batra  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nursery rhyme, color, fruit, kid, kindergarten,
Form: Rhyme
Far Away, Far Away
Far Away, Far Away

Children when you dream at night you may see an awesome sight!
Magic fairies in the dew near trilliums of snow white hue.
You...

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Categories: nursery rhyme, childhood, fairy, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 21st Century Re-Write of Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty fell off the top of the wall
He got on the phone and gave his lawyer a call
With help from the lawyer and litigation...

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Categories: nursery rhyme, change, humorous, irony, nursery
Form: Rhyme

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