For children
By Rhiannonw
grouping together some of my verse that especially has children in mind
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A 2-year old’s Birthday Perplexities
feel puzzled and dazzled … I think I’ll just go up to bed!
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A 5-year old’s bedroom (IP)
I open my eyes, and what do I see? My own little world that is just for me – the curtains whose shapes and figures I weave into stories of heroes and...
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A Child's Week (IP)
— synaesthetically
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A ‘little bit’ of what you fancy … (IP)
A little runny honey is lovely to lick, but a lot just makes my tummy sick; and chocolate too is yummy, but it makes me feel so funny if I stuff...
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An 18 month-old meets Penelope the Penguin
‘Hello! I’m Penelope the Penguin’ (Mum wriggling bright hand puppet) “He-ow” (huge smile from ear to ear, shining eyes) …
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Back-seat kids!
Stop that bickering in the back! …
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Caring Restraint!
I’ll hold your hand for your own good – you cannot see the things that could be dangerous, hurt, or make you fall – I’ll hold your hand while you are small! I’ll hold your hand
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Colours for Kids 10)
Coal and soot and the sky at night (before the moon has risen to shed some light), the patches on a panda, dark stripes across the zebra, the telly...
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Colours for Kids 11)
Bananas and daffodils, egg yolk and butter …
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Colours for Kids 4)
Snow newly fallen, and milk in the cup, a fresh piece of paper before …
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Colours for Kids 5)
… pretty pink blossom of a cherry tree drifting down like pink-petal snow …
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Colours for Kids 6)
… and a parakeet …
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Colours for Kids 7)
Blackcurrant* squash and deep purple pansies, Teletubbies’ Tinky winky, purple ‘red*’ cabbage, the velvet of the queen’s crown, – and the mountain...
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Colours for Kids 8)
Grey school trousers, skirts and socks, grey rain clouds, and seaside rocks, grey knives and forks, and grandad’s hair, roads and pavements...
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Colours for Kids 9)
Oranges and clementines, satsumas too, carrots for dinner or a snack to chew, orange goldfish in a bowl swim round and round, traffic cones with...
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Comeuppance
Hung on the gallows he built for another (of KIng Xerxes and Haman's plot)
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from the bus' mouth …
"Twenty past nine, at the village green, the forthcoming happenings as yet unseen. Who would be coming along to pay and purchase a ticket for town today? …
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Grave Visit (IP)
Black boots, brown boots in a line … ‘Look sad, ’cos smiling’s not permitted’, John said, to make me laugh or squeak …
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How long is high?
‘Mary can reach the table bottom, I can reach the top, Dan can reach the curtain rail – but where does growing stop? ‘Dad can’t reach the ceiling,...
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I’m Bertie the bus! (IP)
Twenty past nine, at the village green, the forthcoming happenings as yet unseen. Who would be coming along to pay and purchase a ticket for town today?
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Kids' Colours 1)
The London bus, and …
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Kids' Colours 2)
Dory and smurfs, and …
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Kids' Colours 3)
Brown mud, and …
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KidsSpeak
On prematurely awaking from a car-nap, Little boy lost …, Nearly three – “You can’t see me!”, How long is high?, A 5-year old’s bedroom
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Nearly three – “You can’t see me!”
Nearly 3, hide behind a tree – “You can’t see me!” though a spotty anorak is sticking out from round the back! “You can’t see me!” Yes, I know I forgot to go
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The Clever Little Bike (IP)
There was a thief who stole a bike – the little bike he did not like the thief who pedalled him away – determined that he would not stay upon his...
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To Pluto – and Back! (Poetry Monthly)
for children …
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Observer
…always looking out, not in !
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Learning Counting 3, 4, 5 …
1, 2, 3 Breakfast, lunch and tea Mummy, Daddy, me: 1, 2, 3 … Now we’ve got 1 more 3 and 1 makes 4 …
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Kids’ Contrasts
The giraffe is tall, the fly is small, the sun gives light – so it’s dark at night. The snail is slow – but watch the cars go – fast! – keep away!...
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The seasons' round
Autumn leaves are falling down falling down, falling down …
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Attacking a satsuma like Jack Horner
Little Miss Capable: sat at the table … She stuck in her thumb …
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Imagine …
I’m a lion in a cage in an angry roaring rage … … I’m a frightened little mouse quietly scuttling round the house. … I’m a Mummy feeling wild for I’...
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If I were …
If I were a bird that flies, I’d fly up high into the sky. If I were a fish that swims I’d glide through the sea and feel so free. If I were … But, you know what? …
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Come, children, let’s garden!
In earth that’s brown we plant our seeds from which are grown (together with weeds) the flowers we chose and the lettuce and leeks: each seedling...
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Big River, Big Life
Anaconda large and long with a squeeze that’s very strong … River dophins rather pink …cayman black …
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One
An attempt at some fun poems during December on the day's numbers, for children
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3
… and every day there’s 3 main meals …
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5
5 days for school – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then Thursday, Friday; 5 fingers on each hand (though one is called a thumb) 5 petals on a...
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6
6 sides (including top and bottom) to cubes and bricks. And every insect …
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7
7 days in every week – … 7 full musical notes in the scale.: …
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8
8 legs on a spider – 4 on each side (4 and 4 makes 8); 8 tentacles on an octopus (like arms) An octagon is a flat shape with 8 straight sides ‘octo’...
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9
… We ring 9, then 9 again, and 9 once more on a phone if there is a …
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11
… the number of players in football or cricket teams.…
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13
spring … summer … autumn … winter
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17
Haiku example: 'Winter life withdrawn, safely shielded from the cold …'
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18
In Welsh the word for 18 is ‘two-nines’ (deunaw) in the Breton language it is ‘three-sixes’ (triwec’h) …
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19
‘Straightforwardness’ is a word that …
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20
… But now I’ve reached 20 – I think that that’s plenty!
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What can you hear?
Shut your eyes: What can you hear? … “Buzz! buzz! buzz!”– … whose squeaky brakes!
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What's the opposite?
Heavy and light, black and white, hot and cold , young and old, fast and slow, up high , or down below : how many opposites do you know? The giraffe...
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Fish Finger Maths!
10 fish fingers hot on the grill. Susie went to bed feeling rather ill, Tommy wanted 3 his empty tum to fill, Bertie asked for 2 – and a ½ – ‘Thanks...
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My ways they are a-changing!
… ‘Interesting times’, said the woodworm …
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Thrill
What a surprise … It looks like we’ve seen in books. What funny stuff! Is it enough …
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Let the Blue through!
Blue light flashes Woo-woo! Woo-woo! Woo-woo! …Blue lights once more flashing by… Again see blue lights flash, but why …
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Air everywhere
Our world is round, and all over the ground is …
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