Section: «Short Poems for Kids»

Red for love, and blue for peace,Yellow joy will never cease.With every color, bright and true,My friendship rainbow’s made for you!

We laugh together, play and run,With you, my friend, life’s full of fun!Through ups and downs we always stay,Best friends forever — hip, hooray!

A friend is kind, a friend is near,To bring us joy and wipe a tear.Through every smile, through every day,A friend will never go away.

Santa left me nothingbut this note upon my table:I tried to fill your stockings,but, alas, I wasn’t able.I thought my beard would turn to ash.I..

Martha said she’d seen him.Apple pie cheeks,and a smile that could melt the frozen ‘tricicles.’He had a pillow-down tummy,dragon-proof boots,wooly..

I love all the twinkly fairy lightsbut not the arguments and fights,I do like turkey and brandy pudbut sometimes it’s hard just being good.I like the..

Perhaps your treeis a grey-green firwhose fragrant needlesdust the floor?Perhaps your treeis a faithful friend,its glossy boughsunboxed..

The snow has come thick like lettersto the North Pole on the first day of winter.My nose presses against the window,I blow hot breath and wrap the..

It’s the hush of the airthe swish of whooshed-back curtainsIt’s the crispof the fields the clink of a spoon in a warming drink It’s the creak of my..

The flames stretch up high while bright candles burn smallThe tree lights glow red, gold and green The window reflects all the lights in our room,And..

Outside the flakes swirl down out of the darknessTurning blackest night to palest grey.Listen, and you can hear the quiet,As if every sound had been..

Long ago, a baby was sentFrom far away, this baby was meantAs the greatest gift to the world.And wise men journeyed from afar,Following a distant..

 We’ve slept out of sight, in permanent nightThen, a crack in the darkness… a flash of bright light!The tree’s brought out first, then tinsel and..

Dear old friend,Can’t fool me!I know you're there. I heard you deep inside that peach-puff cloud this afternoon. Thenwhen my last ice-breath..

bob bobbingin the windplastic snowman snowmendon’t like vegetablesexcept carrots I love my snowmaneven when he isn’tthereChristine Eales

I know where the baby Jesus was born,said the child.Where? Said I.In a hotel called The Stable.In an hotel? Said I.And was it a posh hotel?No, said..

What's Christmas to creatures - pleasure or dread?We asked a few locals,and here's what they said:I don't care a noodle,offered a poodle.I'm glad..

Snowmen built, sledges rode,ice-cold hands, frozen toes.Presents wrapped, cards all sent,audience tears, nativities end.Crackers bought, puddings..

Even before you look, you know –silence and stillnessarrive with the snowAnd when you peep, the street is whitewinter leans in and..

Each year many millions of letters Arrive in great sacks at my door, And it takes me a week to climb up to the topOf the mountain they make on the..

Watching winter's snowflakesdrifting down, so slow-flakessparkling icy glow-flakesputting on a show-flakesmaking snowmen grow-flakesbut then, the..

This Christmas will be different:the angels got the sack.A choir of heavenly llamas sing,conducted by a yak.Here come the three wise penguins,riding..

Hey Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, VixenComet, Cupid, Donner, BlitzenMy Christmas sleigh’s in need of fixingIt seems my bum no longer fits inI know I’ve..

The air is damp and chill as cloudsthe world is paper whitethe moon and stars floated in flakesto join us in the nightmoonlight fell and all..

are the hugs.The welcome home hugson station platformssparkling with frost.The good to be home hugsas the warmth of the housefolds round us.The thank..