Poems About Kids

Poems About Kids is a well used search term but it is not a search that hitherto has been well satisfied unless the searchers actually want Poems FOR Kids. Little Miss Muppet and Little Jack Horner are clearly rhymes both for kids and about kids but most poems FOR kids are not about kids but about school, or animals or Halloween and so forth. Kenn Nesbitt who writes lots of stuff for children started off writing about a kid but most subsequent poems were for kids rather than about them. In the grand scheme of things this matters not a lot except right now to me seeking to satisfy this search term. Here are some of mine that I think are about kids but not necessarily for them, preceded by a link to my poems for kids section












"I never head butted your bottom"
"How can you say that? You did.
How long have you been acting like a goat?
"Ever since I was a kid"

Jon Bratton © 2010

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For and about a new teenager

Start being very awkward
Refuse to eat your greens
Turn your room into a trash pile (Council Tip)
It's the law, you've reached your teens

Throw several tantrums daily
Become a right stroppy toad
You've got no choice you must obey
The Teenage Behaviour Code

It's said you'll get all grumpy
And spend too long in bed
Say "it's not fair" an awful lot
In your teenage years ahead

But these can be exciting times
Energetic, full of beans
Don't rush to be an adult
Take your time, enjoy your teens

A very happy 13th birthday

Jon Bratton © 2007

Poems About Kids

Little Johnny lived in the country
So dinner guests were few
When, one day, some did arrive
He knew just what to do

He brought in the first piece of pie
He was just little, and doing his best
He handed it to his Dad
Who passed it to a guest

Johnny came in again
And put another pie piece down
Dad picked it up
And passed it to Mrs Brown

Johnny got vexed
There were tears in his eyes
He said "You're wasting your time Dad
They're all the same size!"

Jon Bratton © 2007

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I already had an aardvark and an octopus
So you can imagine the almighty fuss
When I took home a hippopotamus
When I did it again next day, me Dad just cusses
"Two bloomin' hippopotamuses
They're as big as double decker buses"
"Actually", says I, "it's better to say hippopotami
Though never double decker bi
Don't ask me why"...but he did ask me why
"Grammar" was my reply
"Me Mother," he said "that's just absurd"
He must have misheard
Talking of Grandma, she wasn't happy at me getting a new pet
"I haven't finished the gloves for your octopus yet"
She declares
"I've only knitted 4 pairs
(She wanted spares)
And what's more, I'm knitting bootees for your Aunt
Well, not for her, for her ele phant
It's all such a palaver
That aardvark'll wait ages for his balaclava
I'm 82, me lad, and not a fast knitter
And I don't want to sound bitter
But keeping 5 large creatures in a bedsitter..
..Is not very mature
Considering the manure"

Jon Bratton © 2005

I'm sure I have more Poems About Kids, which I'll gather in. Meantime here's more


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