Children's+Poems

CHILDREN'S POEMS By Isabella, Emma M and Jessica

Children’s poems are poems that are (obviously) aimed at children, however they can be entertaining to all age groups. **MY PUPPY PLAYS PIANO **  My puppy plays piano.  It's the strangest thing to see.  It seems, while I was practicing, he learned by watching me.

 He started out on chopsticks,  then he learned to play some Bach.  It wasn't long before he knew  the blues and classic rock.  He also taught my kitten how  to they could play duets,   and then they taught guitar and drums   to all my other pets.  They formed a band and practiced hard <span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> and traveled all around,  <span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> and instantly got famous  <span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> for their catchy "Pet Rock" sound. <span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> They made a smash hit record <span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> and it wasn't very long  <span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> before my pets were millionaires  <span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> because they wrote this song. <span style="color: #ff0063; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-Kenn Nesbitt <span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** DON'T BRING CAMELS IN THE CLASSROOM **

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Don’t bring camels in the classroom. Don’t bring scorpions to school. Don’t bring rhinos, rats, or reindeer. Don’t bring mice or moose or mule. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Pull your penguin off the playground. Put your python in a tree. Place your platypus wherever you think platypi should be.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lose your leopard and your lemur. Leave your llama and your leech. Take your tiger, toad, and toucan anywhere but where they teach.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Send your wombat and your weasel with your wasp and wolverine. Hide your hedgehog and hyena where you’re sure they won’t be seen.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Please get rid of your gorilla. Please kick out your kangaroo. No, the teacher didn’t mean it when she called the class a "zoo."

<span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Kenn Nesbitt

<span style="color: #00e1ff; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: right;"> <span style="color: #d70f73; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Santa Got Stuck in the Chimney ** I know it sounds weird, but it's true. His feet made it down, but his belly was one size too large for the flue.
 * <span style="color: #d70f73; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Poor Santa got stuck in our chimney.

<span style="color: #d70f73; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">His reindeer are up on our rooftop. His sleigh is still loaded with toys. And Santa, that kindly old fellow, is making a whole lot of noise. We called the police and the sheriff. They showed up with ladders and cranes. They brought all their winches and pulleys, plus bungee cords, cables and chains.

<span style="color: #d70f73; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">They're working right now to remove him by hoisting him slowly back out. It might take all morning, for Santa is more than a little bit stout.

<span style="color: #d70f73; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">If you don't have presents this morning, we're sorry that you have to wait. But Santa's still stuck in our chimney. He may be a day or two late.

<span style="color: #d70f73; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">Until then, please hide all your cookies. Though Santa may find this severe, at least then he'll fit down the chimney when he comes on Christmas next year. <span style="color: #d70f73; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">--Kenn Nesbitt || <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">along with some peppers and pumpkins and grass. <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">We planted them neatly in straight little rows. <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">But Jessica Jean stuck her bean up her nose.
 * <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">Jessica Jean **
 * <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">We planted some beans in our garden in class,

<span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"><span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;"> She did it discreetly, not making a peep. <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">She pushed with her pinky and poked it in deep, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">then kept it a secret, so no one would know. <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">But, meanwhile, her bean was beginning to grow.

<span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">It popped out a leaf on the tiniest stalk, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">that quickly unfolded and caused her to squawk, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">then rapidly blossommed and grew to a vine, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">while Jessica Jean was beginning to whine.

<span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">It quickly expanded to cover her lips. <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">It grew on her shoulders, her elbows and hips. <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">It bloomed on her body and covered her clothes, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">completely encasing her down to her toes.

<span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">It looped on her ankles, engulfing her feet, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">cocooning her knees and obscuring her seat, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">concealing her up past the top of her chest, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">her arms and her hands, and then all of the rest.

<span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">And that was the last that has ever been seen, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">or heard of the student named Jessica Jean. <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">So always remember to plant them in rows, <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;">and never, don't ever, put beans in your nose. <span style="color: #3faaf3; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">--Kenn Nesbitt

[[image:07eng1poetrywiki/KennNesbitt280x373.jpg width="112" height="145" align="right" caption="Kenn Nesbitt "]]
<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">We would like to say a thank you to Kenn Nesbitt, he is a fabulous poet. Go to his website POETRY4KIDS for more poems. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">

=<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">THE DRAGON OF WESHLY =

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The dragon of Weshly came out at night, He lived in a cave at the top of Mount Trite, His roar could be heard from miles away The people of Weshly were scared the next day.

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">His fiery breath burnt down the town, But the people of Weshly would never back down, As time went by they started to worry, Would the dragon of Weshly come back in a hurry?

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“He’s scary!” said Tommy, a five year old boy “I want him dead!” yelled his grandmother Joy The people of Weshly gathered around, They planned to confront him and shoot him down.

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As the soon to be heroes left their families behind, They jumped on their horses in a frame of mind, They started their journey feeling alright, Finally stopping on the top of Mount Trite.

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">They entered the cave, fiery eyed, As the dragon blew flames some of them died, The remaining heroes went on through the night, Attacking the beast until the daylight.

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">After a fierce and everlasting fight, The dragon was dead! The town cheered with delight. They went to their homes feeling safe and fine Yet waiting in the cave was a new dragon in line - Jessica and Susannah <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">THE LOCH NESS <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">All was quiet, but the water were not, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">As it swirled in the river,the people never forgot, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Of the time when the town lived in despair, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The time when the lock ness monster lived there.

<span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It rolled, it jumped it swam in the night, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The town, afraid, did not go to fight, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> He roamed around the murky waters, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Snacking on boys, chewing on daughters. <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">One day he once was faced by a man, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">A man who had a brilliant plan, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> A plan to get rid of him once and for all, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> He went in to the water, ready for a brawl.

<span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">With a glint in his eye as he stood tall, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">He lured the monster to the stone wall, <span style="color: #ea531a; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">With a crash and bang he looked down to the ground, <span style="color: #ff4300; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">He was not there, he would never be found.

<span style="color: #ff4300; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">He looked to the crowd and remembered the day, <span style="color: #ff4300; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The day when the loch ness monster went away, <span style="color: #ff4300; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The glorious day had come to the town, <span style="color: #ff4300; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">When the monster had gone they were now renowned.

<span style="color: #ff4300; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">-Hannah and Isabella

<span style="color: #10bc98; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Some very famous childrens poets are:

 * <span style="color: #10bc98; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ken Nesbitt
 * <span style="color: #10bc98; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Roald Dahl
 * <span style="color: #10bc98; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Ted Kooser

<span style="color: #ff4300; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">THE PIG <span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In England once there lived a big

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">And wonderfully clever pig.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">To everybody it was plain

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">That Piggy had a massive brain.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He worked out sums inside his head,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">There was no book he hadn't read.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He knew what made an airplane fly,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He knew how engines worked and why.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He knew all this, but in the end

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">One question drove him round the bend:

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He simply couldn't puzzle out

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What LIFE was really all about.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What was the reason for his birth?

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Why was he placed upon this earth?

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">His giant brain went round and round.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Alas, no answer could be found.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Till suddenly one wondrous night.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">All in a flash he saw the light.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He jumped up like a ballet dancer

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">And yelled, "By gum, I've got the answer!"

"<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">They want my bacon slice by slice

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"To sell at a tremendous price!

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"They want my tender juicy chops

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"To put in all the butcher's shops!

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"They want my pork to make a roast

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"And that's the part'll cost the most!

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"They want my sausages in strings!

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"They even want my chitterlings!

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"The butcher's shop! The carving knife!

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"That is the reason for my life!"

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Such thoughts as these are not designed

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">To give a pig great piece of mind.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Next morning, in comes Farmer Bland,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A pail of pigswill in his hand,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">And piggy with a mighty roar,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bashes the farmer to the floor…

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Now comes the rather grizzly bit

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">So let's not make too much of it,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Except that you must understand

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">That Piggy did eat Farmer Bland,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">He ate him up from head to toe,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chewing the pieces nice and slow.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">It took an hour to reach the feet,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Because there was so much to eat,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">And when he finished, Pig, of course,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Felt absolutely no remorse.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Slowly he scratched his brainy head

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">And with a little smile he said,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"I had a fairly powerful hunch

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"That he might have me for his lunch.

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"And so, because I feared the worst,

<span style="color: #ff0063; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"I thought I'd better eat him first."

<span style="color: #ff4300; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">By Roald Dahl ||