HeyJaredPoetry for Kids
Funny poetry for kids by children’s author and former US Children’s Poet Laureate, Kenn Nesbitt.
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It’s Fun to Be a Football (opens the original)
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Football season has just begun, and some members of my family are already enthusiastically watching the games and hoping their favorite team will make it to the Super Bowl again this year. I’ve written lots of sports poems over the years, including a couple about football. But those poems could just as easily have been ... Read more »
Summer and Autumn (opens the original)
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I wrote this poem because, here in the northern hemisphere, summer is almost over and fall will be here in just a few days. But, at least where I live, you wouldn’t necessarily know it from the weather. The days are still sunny and warm, and it still feels a lot like summer, even though ... Read more »
Picture Day (opens the original)
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My wife recently started a new job as a school picture day photographer. Every day when she comes home, she has interesting, and often funny stories about the people and things she photographed that day. She’s taken pictures of hundreds of students, of course, but she’s also photographed teachers, school staff, and even a principal’s ... Read more »
Space Llamas (opens the original)
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The beginning of a new school year can be exciting, but it can also be a little scary. You might wonder who you’ll sit with, whether you’ll make new friends, or whether the other kids will think you’re cool. That was one of the ideas that got me started on this poem. The other idea ... Read more »
Lunchbox Switcheroo (opens the original)
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Sometimes magazines ask me to write poems on a specific topic. Earlier this year, an editor at Storyworks 4-6, a multi-genre magazine for students in grades 4–6, asked me to write a poem about being nervous about making new friends on the first day of school. Instead of writing just one poem, I did what ... Read more »
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