Child Funny Poetry

For the child, funny poetry by Martha Long, who taught pre-schoolers for over thirty years.

PUZZLING

I finished the puzzle.
One piece isn't here…
So the dog in the picture
Is missing his ear.

Where does a piece go
When it leaves the box?
Probably the same place
That has half my socks.

DINOSAURS

When I play with dinosaurs
I use a growling voice
I crash my feet and eat raw meat
And bite at other dino's feet—

I see my teacher roll her eyes,
Preferring we play sweetly
But she lets us have the dinosaurs—
— She understands completely.

AT THE EASEL

My tree is red, my dog is red,
My rainbow is red too.
The teacher smiles and says to me—
"I see you like red, Sue."

Yes, I know that trees are green
For that is what you teach
But red's the only color of
The paint that I could reach!

LETTER OF THE DAY

It's Letter of the Day-day-day
And I want to run away-way-way
Everybody has brought a thing-thing-thing
That starts with R like ring-ring-ring

Then we all sit down and talk-talk-talk
And I'd rather play with chalk-chalk-chalk
Cause it makes no sense to me-me-me
After all I'm only three-three-three.

I can't tell a Q from O, O, O,
I know someday I will know, know, know,
But today I'd rather be, be, be
Outside climbing up a tree, tree, tree.

Ode to George Henry, an Amphibrach Poem

A teen has a bad day in iambic tetrameter...

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