Poems To Share
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Ten back to School Poems
Helping children cope with grief and loss The Goodbye Poems
Poems about Love in School
Poems About COVID-19
Poems About COVID-19 for Children
Poems for Teachers
Definition of Teachers
Ode to a Librarian
Dancing on a Rainbow
How You Live
A Teacher's Plea
Primary Poems
Poems About COVID-19 for Children
Poetry is Great!
I Called My Teacher Mommy
Shaking at My Desk
Planet Earth
On the Day My Dog Died
Junior Poems
Poetry, Popcorn, Pretzels, Pickles, Pizza Party
I Cannot Get My Homework Done
The Pencil and Eraser Were in a Horrid Fight
Meet Me in the Bathroom
The Dawdler
The Fight and The Score
I Turn Something Into Nothing
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| Poems About Love in School |
| Definition of Teachers |
Astronauts
Exploring
The far reaches
Of the universe
Inside of students. |
Engineers
Designing
Spaceships,
Strong enough
To carry children,
On their journey
Through life. |
Scientists
Studying
The minds,
And hopes,
And dreams,
Of the earth's
Most precious resource. |
| Ode to a Librarian |
As the heart of a school,
The very soul,
She transforms the pieces
Into a whole.
Hers is a most distinguished role,
As the heart of a school,
The very soul. |
| Dancing on a Rainbow |
When my reading teacher
Comes to get me
For my special reading class
I feel like
Dancing on a rainbow. |
To me she is
a light in the darkness
the twinkle of a star
soft as a cottonball
a true friend. |
When my reading teacher
Comes to get me
For my special reading class
I know what it is like
To dance on a rainbow! |
If You’re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand
Poems About School |
| How You Live |
Who you are
Speaks so loudly
I cannot hear
The lectures you give. |
But my heart,
Hears the lessons
You teach me, |
| By how you live. |
| A Teacher's Plea |
Listen to me when I say,
I NEED MORE HOURS IN A DAY! |
Six little hours is not enough
For all the work; it's much too tough! |
Spelling, writing, computers and math,
Art, phys ed, and music class. |
For adding numbers, and taking scores,
Checking assignments,
There's always more! |
Listen to me when I say,
I NEED MORE HOURS IN A DAY! |
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Poetry is Great! |
One,
Two,
Three,
Four,
Come on kids,
Let's give a roar!
Five,
Six,
Seven,
Eight,
Poetry is
Really great! |
I Called My Teacher
Mommy |
I called my teacher
Mommy
What a silly thing
I said!
I called my teacher
Mommy
I have fluff
Inside my head!
I called my teacher
Mommy
Now my face
Is apple red! |
| Shaking at My Desk |
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The story that I'm writing
Is as scary as can be,
I'm shaking at my desk
Because it's even scaring me.
I'm afraid to finish it,
I'm scared-to-death to see,
What happens to the monster, |
| Is he coming after me? |
| Planet Earth |
Planet Earth
One little planet,
In a galaxy,
A dot in the universe,
But home
For you and me. |
| On the Day My Dog Died |
On the day,
My dog died,
I cried,
And cried,
And cried. |
 |
This is my
Whole poem. |
There's nothing
More to say. |
I cried,
And cried,
And cried,
On the day,
My dog died. |
| Poems About COVID-19 for Children |
I hope you will celebrate poetry in your classroom, and try having a poetry party.
| Poetry, Popcorn, Pretzels, Pickles, Pizza Party |
Poets please prepare poems for our,
Poetry popcorn pretzels pickles pizza party! |
I love to write poems that make you think.
| I Cannot Get My Homework Done |
Unless I'm alone
Or with someone,
I cannot get
My homework done. |
I love to write about simple things like book bags, lunches, recess, desks, erasers and pencils. Here is one of my favorite eraser/pencil poem.
The Pencil and Eraser Were in a Horrid Fight
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The pencil and eraser
Were in a horrid fight,
It went on through the day
And well into the night. |
The pencil wrote a poem
About erasers that can't write,
The eraser erased the poem,
And he did it with delight. |
The pencil wrote a sign,
Keep erasers out of sight,
The eraser erased the sign,
And he did it out of spite. |
The pencil wrote a note,
"You're just a parasite!"
The eraser erased the note,
Not a word was left in sight. |
The pencil and eraser
Fought all through the night,
And when the morning came,
They had disappeared from sight. |
I love to write about every room in the school. I’ve discovered that the bathroom has the best stories of all!
| Meet Me in the Bathroom |
Meet me in the bathroom,
Right at two o'clock,
You leave your class,
I'll leave mine,
We'll have a chance to talk. |
Meet me in the bathroom,
Fake a stomachache,
You leave math,
I'll leave art,
We'll take a bathroom break. |
Meet me in the bathroom,
I'll be waiting there for you,
On the trash can,
By the sink,
At the dot of two. |
I love to write about the problems that students have in school. Here is a poem I wrote many years ago about one of my own students.
| The Dawdler |
The teacher says I dawdle,
And her words are very true;
I never seem to finish
All the work I'm meant to do. |
My spelling's incomplete,
And my math is late again,
She gave us twenty problems.
But I only got to ten. |
Believe me when I tell you
Life certainly seems unfair,
When I feel like a turtle
Struggling way behind the hares. |
The teacher says I dawdle,
And her words are very true,
But does she know how much
I wish,
I'd get the work done too? |
I love to write about tests, report cards, assignments and homework!
| The Fight |
Homework and television
Were in a fight,
Homework lost the game
Last night. |
| The Score |
| Television: | 180 minutes |
| Homework: | 3 minutes |
I love to write puzzle poems. They are so much fun to write. See if you
can figure this one out.
| I Turn Something Into Nothing |
I turn something
Into nothing,
I really really do,
I'm a something
Made for nothing,
Oh,
This precious fact
Is true. |
If you need to change
A something
Into nothing
For awhile,
Then I'm the something
That turns something
Into nothing
With a smile. |
So if you want
Some nothing
From the something
That you write,
I'm the something
Filled with nothing
That is what you want
In sight. |
| (Answer - Eraser) |