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Kids Free Verse Poems

These Kids Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Kids. These are the best examples of Free Verse Kids poems written by international poets.

A Hooked Fish

Nervous I sat,
waiting to be called.
I wasn’t sure what it was he said,
but it meant a lot to me.
Then I realized,
he was not talking to...

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Categories: me, scary, spoken word,

Information Overload

Fraught is not dauntless as The Honor is frighting
AS my kids sleep one day they'll wake up
Ziplines tragedies uptown is where the rich sleep
Lucky is...

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Categories: addiction, allah,

Magdalen Christmas Eve Mass 1984

Busy time very frustrating watching my 
husband and ciro gargano go over the 
blue prints over and over again during 
the 1984 elections for lake...

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Categories: america, christmas, city, evil,

Old fashioned love

Love takes different steps in different cultures, 
If touching means a show of affection, 
If holding hands in privacy mean anything, 
It's a sincere show...

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Categories: love,

all middle-aged men should own leather jackets

i was chosen for the next moon landing
and my co-passengers arrived at the meeting
in lightweight space suits
but i wore my black leather jacket
to show my...

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Categories: angst, art,

Can't Leave My Damn Home

This was written back when Covid-19 at it's height. As sung to the tune "Can't Find My Way Home," by Steve Winwood/Blind Faith.

"Can't Leave My...

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Categories: humor, parody, satire,

Give me life

Give me life

Give me life
Give me life
Give me life
Be my life

I need kid
I need child
This is The End
Live my life

Live my life
Feel my life
Eat my...

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Categories: life, love,

Tangerine Sunsets

I love the end of the day,
when the sun want to climb into bed.
The moon will be rising soon,
showing off it's big bright face.

 

The...

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Categories: day, flower, goodbye, love,

Star Dusted Girl

All the dust upon our rolled up sleeves

makes us kids seem dirty and in desperate need.

I don’t know about you but I’m pretty damn clean.

This...

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Categories: beautiful, deep, girl, mental

Abandoned Farm in Northern Victoria


For decades, motor cars
have driven past in haste,
eyes not straying far
from the highway to where,
set back and obscured
by scrub,
an abandoned farm
is slowly succumbing to rot.
I...

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Categories: absence, farm, identity, loss,

Why I Wrote this Poem

I didn’t write this poem 
Because I was supposed to.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about my feelings.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about the...

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Categories: 7th grade, 8th grade,

To which image should we cling?

Trailing clouds of glory do we come
The magical moments of childhood
When we felt at one with the universe
Spinning dizzily with delight

Or with more of horrible...

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Categories: family, memory, nostalgia,

I move when my dog wants up on the sofa


He learned so quickly how to not bring sticks and balls back
He seems to think when he puts his head down
there should be a bowl...

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Categories: poems,

Mushroom Picking

In the cool of an autumn morning
my father and his friend, 
Jimmy Kerin, would go
mushroom picking in paddocks 
way out past the last suburban fence.
I...

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Categories: autumn, dad, memory, mother,

To Which Image Should We Cling

     
Nostalgia, my sometimes-friend, an unwavering realist,
visits from time to time with a flood of memories
centering around the polar opposites that...

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Categories: father daughter, forgiveness, nostalgia,