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Poetry for Kids

Kenn Nesbitt

Funny poetry for kids by children’s author and former US Children’s Poet Laureate, Kenn Nesbitt.

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1:20

The Leaves Are Falling Off the Trees

Poetry for Kids ·

2025/10/20

It’s October, and the weather has finally started turning cold. The leaves are changing colors and beginning to fall, swirling and spinning in the breeze. I’ve already written a couple of Halloween poems this month, so I thought I’d do something a little different, something that simply celebrates the season itself. The idea for the... Read more »

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2:30

It’s a Farmer’s Job to Farm

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2025/09/29

One of the things I’ve loved ever since I was a kid is playing with language; making up silly words, twisting familiar phrases, and asking questions that don’t always have logical answers. I grew up reading nonsense poems like “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll and “The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear, and I still... Read more »

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2:18

Today I Met an Octopus

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2025/08/18

The other day, I was re-reading my all-time favorite book of poetry, Colin West’s fabulous collection, The Big Book of Nonsense. In Chapter 1, there is a poem simply titled “Knitting.” In Chapter 2, there is a poem called “Octopus.” I was still thinking about the knitting poem when I started reading the octopus poem,... Read more »

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2:06

Bernadette the Burper

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2025/06/23

Sometimes the silliest ideas make for the funniest poems. This one started with a simple question: What if someone was really, really good at burping? I mean unbelievably good. That idea made me laugh, so I knew I had to run with it. The result is a poem that plays with repetition, exaggeration, and a... Read more »

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1:49

The Sofa Ate My Father

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2025/05/19

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. One of my favorite things about writing poems is playing with language—especially when it comes to words or phrases that can mean more than one thing. Sometimes, we use expressions that sound perfectly normal… until you stop and really think about what they say. And when you do, well,... Read more »

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1:41

Mother’s Day Breakfast

Poetry for Kids ·

2025/05/05

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. Today’s poem is all about a well-intentioned surprise that doesn’t go quite as planned. With Mother’s Day right around the corner, one young child decides to do something extra special—make breakfast and deliver it to Mom in bed. But sometimes, even the best ideas can turn into a bit... Read more »

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1:42

Splash!

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2025/03/31

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. The seasons are changing, and it feels like winter is finally over—but spring hasn’t really started yet. Where my sister lives, people like to say they have only three seasons: summer, winter, and mud. I always thought that was a funny way to describe this in-between time of year,... Read more »

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1:20

I Went for a Walk

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2025/03/24

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. I wanted to write a poem about nature in the springtime, especially for young reader… kids in first grade. Spring is such a fun season to explore the outdoors—you never know what kinds of animals or colors you might see! So I thought it would be fun to create... Read more »

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1:57

I Tried to Catch a Leprechaun

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2025/03/17

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, I thought it would be fun to write a poem about the tradition of trying to catch a leprechaun and find his pot of gold. Many kids set leprechaun traps, hoping to outsmart the tricky little creatures. But I started wondering—what if, after... Read more »

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2:22

I Am a Cow

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2025/02/03

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. The first time I ever saw a cow, I was about three years old. My father took me to a dairy farm, and I remember standing right next to a wooden fence, face to face with a huge cow. I was completely surprised! For many years afterward, my dad... Read more »

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1:25

I’ll Never Ride the Waterslide

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2025/01/27

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. When I was 11 years old, my school took the sixth graders on a field trip to the mountains where there was snow. Many of the kids brought sleds or inflatable tubes to ride down the hills, and I brought a tube as well. At first, I was too... Read more »

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1:50

My Brother Made a Snowball

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2024/12/09

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. I grew up in a part of California where it never snowed, but every now and then my parents would take me and my brothers to the nearby mountains in the wintertime to play in the snow. We loved building snowmen and throwing snowballs at one another. Later, when... Read more »

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1:52

It’s Thanksgiving Night

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2024/11/25

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. With Thanksgiving just around the corner here in the US, I wanted to write a fun poem about the holiday that captures the feeling of overindulging at a big family feast. Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude and togetherness, but it’s also a time when we often eat more... Read more »

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1:51

Suspense

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2024/11/18

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. A couple of years ago my friend, the children’s poet Janet Wong, asked if I would contribute a poem to an anthology she was creating with children’s literature professor Sylvia Vardell called Things We Feel. She gave me several photos to choose from as inspiration, and I particularly liked... Read more »

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1:39

This Morning at School

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2024/11/04

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. As a student, I remember being so tired in school some days that I would fall asleep at my desk and the teacher would have to wake me up. I was never so tired in the morning that I went to school in my pajamas or bedsheet or blankets.... Read more »

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2:01

The First Week of School

Poetry for Kids ·

2024/09/03

Hi, I’m Kenn Nesbitt. Welcome to today’s episode of Poetry4kids! With the new school year just starting up here in the U.S., I couldn’t help but think about all those shiny, new back-to-school supplies—new clothes, fresh pencils, spotless notebooks, and clean lunch boxes. There’s something exciting about starting the school year with everything brand new.... Read more »

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1:42

Brand New Cat

Poetry for Kids ·

2024/08/05

Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. Today, I want to share a new poem that’s based on a true story. I have a cat named Reed. You might think I named him that because I like to read, but really it’s because he was rescued from a summer camp called Camp Reed. When I first... Read more »

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1:59

The Summer’s Nearly Over

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2024/07/29

Welcome to today’s episode! I’m excited to share one of my favorite types of poems with you—those that play with idioms. Idioms are fun expressions that mean something different from the literal meanings of the words. For example, if I say “it’s raining cats and dogs,” I don’t mean actual pets are falling from the... Read more »

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