16 Easy Poems for Kids

Share our collection of easy poems for kids with the children in your life. You will find poems that will make you smile, and may even bring back memories.

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Fireworks
Poet: Dorothy Aldis

Just see those pinwheels whirling round
Spitting sparkles on the ground,
And watch that rocket whose so high,
Then turn to flowers in the sky -
Green and yellow, blue and red.
And look at me still not in bed!

Halloween Night
Poet: Charlotte Yoder Cutler

On Halloween my friends and I
Dress up in frightening clothes:
We each put on a funny face
With an e-nor-mous nose.

We ring our neighbors' doorbells,
And they get an awful fright
To see such scary creatures
Standing there at night!

Questions On The Past
Poet Unknown

Can you put the spider's web back in its place, that once has been swept away?
Can you put the apple again on the bough, which fell at our feet to-day?
Can you put the lily-cup back on the stem, and cause it to live and grow?
Can you mend the butterfly's broken wing, that you crushed with a hasty blow!
Can you put the bloom again on the grape, or the grape again on the vine?
Can you put the dewdrops bark on the flower, and make them sparkle and shine!
Can you put the petals back on the rose? If you could, would it smell as sweet?
Can you put the flour again in the husk, and show me the ripened wheat?
Can you put the kernel back in the nut, or the broken egg in its shell?
Can you put the honey back in the comb, and cover with wax each cell?
Can you put the perfume back in the vase, when once it has sped away?
Can you put the corn-silk back on the corn, or the down on the catkins- -say?
You think that my questions are trifling, dear?
Let me ask you another one:
Can a hasty word ever be unsaid, or a deed unkind undone?

God's Gifts
Poet: Nancy Napier

God gave me eyes that I may see
The wonderful things surround me

God gave me ears that I may hear
Rich melodies and voices dear.

God gave me lips to speak and sing
And tell of every lovely thing.

God gave me hands that I may do
the useful things He wants me to.

God gave me legs and two swift feet
That I may skip along the street.

God gives to me strength from above
And fills me full of peace and love!

When I'm A Man
Poet: Clara Lundie Crawford

I can write with a pencil,
Truly I can,
But I'm going to write with ink
When I'm a man.

I can write with a pencil,
Though I've only just begun,
And to write with ink
Would be much more fun.

I like to watch my daddy
Use his fountain pen,
He just writes and writes,
And fills it up again!

I can write with a pencil,
Truly I can,
But I'm always going to write
With ink - when I'm a man!

Nighttime
Poet: Dale Asher Jacobus

When Mother turns the lights all out
And tip-toes down the stairs;
After she has tucked me in and heard my little prayers,
The darkness seems so soft and kind,

And somehow I don't seem to mind.
I shut my eyes with all my might
And when I open them - it's light.

If I Had A Million Dollars
Poet: Linda Markey

If I had a million dollars,
I'd buy a Cadillac car;
I'd go to a dramatic school
And become a movie star.

If I had a million dollars,
I'd do so many things -
I'd take a trip in an airplane
With great-big silver wings.

But I haven't a million dollars,
And I haven't a Cadillac car;
So I guess I'll just be happy
With things the way they are.

Honeybee
Poet: Emily Jo Jackson

I saw a little honeybee
Getting honey from our tree;
He wasn't very big, you see -
Just a tiny honeybee.

Dressed in coat of black and yellow,
He was quite a handsome fellow;
Just when I was hoping he would stay,
He buzzed good-by and flew away.

Sun
Poet: Diane Coe

Kittens and puppies are happy;
Bears are jolly, too.
But I think clowns make the sun shine,
Don't you?

Crossing The Brook
Poet: Emilie Poulsson

"I swim across," said the shiny fish,
"From here to there whenever I wish."

"I leap across," said the squirrel spry,
"From branch to branch in the tree-tops high."

“I fly across," rang the bird’s sweet trill -
"Across broad river or narrow rill."

"I cannot leap or swim, said the child,
"Or fly across." But he gaily smiled -

And swiftly, merrily then he ran
To hear the place where the brook began.

For here it was neither deep nor wide.
And stepping-stones led to the other side.

And the brook seemed calling in rippling tones,
"For children like you are these stepping-stones."

Counter
by Aunt Sue

One little lady, very nicely dressed.
Two little dickey-birds, perched upon a nest.
Three little chickies, feeding from a plate.
Four little children, swinging on a gate.
Five little rabbits, frightened by a gun.
Six little piggies, running like fun.
Seven pretty swallows, crossing the sky.
Eight nice apples, hanging up high.
Nine little sparrows, picking up crumbs.
Ten little fingers, but two of them are thumbs.

The Sweet Red Rose
Poet: Joel Stacy

Good-morrow, little rose-bush.
Now pry thee tell me true:
To be as sweet as a sweet red rose
What must a body do?

To be as sweet as a sweet red rose
A little girl like you
Just grows and grows and grows and grows
And that's what she must do.

Four Birds
Poet: Mary Mapes Dodge

Four pretty little birds, singing all together;
Flitting round so joyfully in the pleasant weather.
"Little birds, little birds, why not fret and cry?"
"Oh, because we're good and glad: that's the reason why."

Big Broom
Poet: Mary Mapes Dodge

Around and around a dusty little room,
Went a very little maiden with a very big broom.
And she said: "Oh, I could make it so tidy and so trig,
Were I a little bigger and my broom not quite so big!

One, Two, Three!
Poet: Mary Mapes Dodge

One, two, three!
A bonny boat I see.
A silver boat, and all afloat
Upon a rosy sea.

One, two, three!
The riddle tell to me
The moon afloat in the bonny boat,
The sunset is the sea.

A Million Little Diamonds
Poet: Unknown

A million little diamonds
Twinkled in the trees,
And all the little maidens said,
"A jewel, if you please!”
But while they held their hands out-stretched,
To catch the diamonds gay,
A million little sunbeams came,
And stole them all away.