Child Poems - Examples of all types of child poetry to share and read.ren. This list of child poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Adults often write about children and remember with fascination their childhood. Thee poetic works focus on children and the things unique to them including nursery rhymes, funny lyrics, and rhyming child poems. Read
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First PoemsNanna traces finger-rhymes around my hand:
tickling poems.
Pictures in my sister’s book
speak poetry, and I want her book
to be mine.
Miss Fernside points to words
beside her drawings
on the easel;
I love Miss Fernside.
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Categories:
child, grandmother, poems, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Fish PartyEach goldfish
is like a birthday candle
of flickering fins;
or under-water sparkles
of sunlit sugar
sprinkled, trickled, rippled.
My face is staring
over the pond;
they gather
for party bags
we call stinky-fish-food,
while cloud-balloons
make funny faces
and float far away.
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Categories:
child, fish,
Form: Free verse
The Sea in my roomAs a child,
with my Nanna,
making the bed -
waves of sheet
crash,
underneath is cool -
dark,
need to breathe,
roll on the carpet-beach,
watch the white-surge
flapping, snapping, falling
up and down
up and down
calming, resting
smelling sunshine.
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Categories:
child, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
A Child’s Night-CaveAt night
In my room
Curtains flap
Scraps of black
Look like bats
Then a snore
And a growl –
‘It’s a bear!’
‘It’s a ghost!’
‘It’s the fridge,’
says Dad.
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Categories:
child, fear, night,
Form: Free verse
The Geese Have Stopped Flying Over
“What’s the matter, little one?"
“The gone gone geese~~no more fun!”
What he meant, I had no clue,
but he surely knew.
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Categories:
bird, child,
Form: Dodoitsu
Backwards Spells of FEAR Part I
so easy to fall, and so hard to break free
somehow as a child I knew
it was as if they knew my name before I had a clue
at 10 reading books about orphans
free from the...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, child, fear,
Form: Free verse
BOAT CHILDRENEach day more arrivals
in small inflatables
escaping from troubles
their homeland far away
they cannot bear to stay
so travel to UK
a risky trip from home ...
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Categories:
child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
LifeLittle things turn big and now
Incredible memories spin round and round.
Flying dreams are sometimes too quick to chase
Even though its me on the pilot’s seat....
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Categories:
age, child, flying, irony,
Form: Acrostic
Chasing Sandpipers and GullsI set up an easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed colors onto the palette...sea foam green, azure, titanium white, and ochre.
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Categories:
child,
Form: Haibun
BYE ERNBYE ERN
There once was a man from Bavaria
Whose actions could not be scarier
In the woods where he lurked
And at night where he worked
It was designated as a no-go area
But at heart he was a secretive...
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Categories:
child abuse,
Form: Limerick
HOY
Hoy es tu dia, Pero no estas.
Hoy me pierdo en el recuerdo.
Hoy me encuentro en tus memorias.
El dolor me mata.
El dolor me ciega.
El dolor me impide pensar.
Hoy fui derrotada!
Hoy lloré!
Hoy sentí la...
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Categories:
birthday, child, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Seeds of SorrowHer eyes swelled and swelled
With bitter tears
That lingered near...
She stood there and not here
Since she thought
It was better to cry, than to try to fly
Into the fantasies ought
To have held on
Rather, just watch and let...
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Categories:
abortion, birth, care, child,
Form: Free verse
playground scarsLittle Girl swings in the air,
legs pumping, wind in hair
the closest to flight she’ll ever be.
freedom and fairytales whisper in her ears,
telling her with each swing, she’ll be closer to the clouds.
Little Girl and Little...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, angst, child
Form: Free verse
baby elephants - a letter to my motherbaby elephants stay with their mothers their whole lives
they follow them for miles,
hiding in the maternal shade
of large, floppy ears,
perfect for listening to their cries.
so why, mom, did you leave your baby,
even after...
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Categories:
child, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
In Praise of Yelling
Sometimes
it's good to give
yourself up in an heartfelt yell -
to find a place out of earshot
of others, a beach will do,
or better, a shoreline with rocks
and crashing waves,
or out bush where there is
nothing...
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Categories:
child, earth, peace, self,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Child Poems
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