The 15 best short poems for children

Examples of children's poetry with which you can play, educate, transmit values and much more.

Children's poetry is an artistic expression adapted to the language and understanding of children.. In general terms, reading poems allows children to acquire knowledge about themselves and their environment in an entertaining way.

Not only that, but it allows them to acquire or reinforce many other skills. For example, it helps to develop imagination and at the same time emotional and artistic sensitivity. On the other hand, it increases their vocabulary and reinforces the bond with the reader. It can also help develop verbal expression skills, including complex ones such as public speaking.

In the following text you will find several short poems for children written by different authors.The most popular short poems, which can be very useful to take advantage of leisure time and at the same time reinforce various learning.

15 short poems for children

Usually, poems for children are short in length. This is so because this allows them to maintain attention for developmentally appropriate periods, as well as to retain different knowledge in a simple way.

In other words, this activity can reinforce learning about different contentThe poem addresses themes related to values, nature, relationships, etc. Here are some examples.

1. Conch shell, by Federico García Lorca

They brought me a conch shell. Inside it sings a sea of map. My heart is filled with water with little fishes of shadow and silver.

The sound heard inside the shells can give rise to much creativity, and these verses are an example of that.

2. A white rose, by Amado Nervo

I grow a white rose in June like January for the sincere friend who gives me his frank hand. And for the cruel one who tears out the Heart with which I live, I neither thistle nor nettle I cultivate; I grow the white rose.

A philosophy of life based on forgiveness.

3. Everything is round, by Gabriela Mistral

The stars are children's round Playing at the spying earth The wheat is a girl's round Playing at rippling... rippling Rivers are children's rounds Playing to meet in the sea Waves are girls' rounds Playing the earth to embrace

Elegant metaphors in which the little ones are the protagonists.

4. No, by Gloria Fuentes

No to sadness No to pain No to laziness No to usury No to envy No to ignorance No to violence No to injustice No to war Yes to peace Yes to joy Yes to friendship

The transmission of values can also take place through these simple short poems for children.

5. April, by Juan Ramón Ramírez

The chamariz in the poplar tree. -And what else? The poplar tree in the blue sky. - And what else? The blue sky in the water. - And what else? The water in the new leaf. - And what else? The new leaf on the rose. - And what else? The rose in my heart. - And what else? My heart in yours!

An endearing poem with which to create a dialogue based on verses.

6. Toys are for playing to play, Gloria Fuentes

Not for Playing at Killing (pretend) Pistols (not even water pistols) The revolver (no way) The shotgun (not even touch it) Toys for everything And guns for nothing.

A defense of non-violent games.

7. Pegasos, cute pegasos, by Antonio Machado

I knew as a child, the joy of spinning on a colorful steed, on a night of celebration.

In the dusty air the candles sparkled, and the blue night burned all strewn with stars.

Childish joys that cost a copper coin copper coin, pretty little pegasus, little wooden horses!

Verses about the childish illusion with which one goes to the merry-go-round..

8. Verses of the earth, Javier Luis Taboada

The Earth is a spinning top that never stops spinning. Although it seems round, do not be fooled. It is a little flattened at the top and bottom. It is like a tangerine peeled, marking segments. The Earth when it moves, circling around itself and around its sun, without breaking its skull.

Poem for children that besides being fun serves to learn about our planet.

9. Sweet Orange (Anonymous)

Sweet orange, split lemon, give me a hug that I ask of you. If my oaths my oaths soon, very soon they will be forgotten.

A children's poem based on sensations.

10. Elephant's Lullaby, by Adriano del Valle

The elephant was crying because he did not want to sleep Sleep my little elephant the moon will hear you Papa elephant is near his mooing can be heard in the mangrove swamp Sleep my little elephant the moon will hear you The elephant cried and raised his trunk to the wind it seemed that he was wiping his nose in the moon.

Simple narration centered on the story of an elephant the story of an elephant.

11. The Mice, by Lope de Vega

The mice got together to get rid of the cat; and after a long time of disputes and opinions they said that they would succeed to put a bell on it, that by walking the cat with it, they could get rid of it better.

*A Barbican mouse came out, long-tailed, snub-nosed and, curling up his thick back, said to the Roman Senate, after talking cultured for a while:

• Who of all is to be the one who dares to put that bell to the cat?

A cute, smoky children's poem about the difference between theory and practice.

12. The Fairies, by Rubén Darío

The fairies, the beautiful fairies, they exist, my sweet child, Joan of Arc saw them winged, in the countryside.

She saw them when she left the mirab, long ago, Mohammed. Smaller than a dove, Shakespeare saw Queen Mab.

The fairies said things in the cradle of the princesses of old: That if they were to be blissful or beautiful as the moon; or strange and ambiguous phrases.

With their tiaras and wings small as lilies, there were fairies who were good And there were fairies that were bad.

And there was a hunchbacked one, the one with the hateful prophecy: the one called Carabosa.

If she came to the cradle of the gentle little princesses, none of them would be spared of her cursed words.

And that fairy was very ugly, as are ugly are every bad idea and every bad heart.

When you were born, precious one, you had no pagan fairies, nor the horrible Carabosa nor her gracious sisters.

Nor Mab, who walks in dreams, nor those who celebrate a feast in the magic forest of Brocelianda.

And do you know, my child, why there was no fairy there? Because there was near you who blessed your birth: Queen more than all of them: the Queen of the Stars, the sweet Virgin Mary. May she bless your path, as your Mother and your friend; with her divine consolations fear not infernal war; may she perfume thy yearnings her name that evil banishes, for she scents the heavens and the earth.

This poem for older children encourages to think of a fantasy world.

13. Lullaby of the turtle, by Rafael Alberti

Green, slow, the turtle. He's already eaten the parsley! the lettuce leaf! To the water, the bath is overflowing! In the water, duck! And we really like to see the turtle and the boy like to see the turtle, silly, alone and swimming.

A simple and short children's poem for the little ones in the house.

14. The pearl, by Manuel Felipe Rugeles

In a mother-of-pearl box the pearl is born and in a mother-of-pearl box

my eyes saw it.

Some say it is gray Others, that it is bluish. That it has an ariente of rose, far away. Of the sea of pearls Of Caribbean light. The pearl that I have seen I want it in your hands. Snow from your neck

Light from your throat Girl of the island my whitest pearl!

A poem based on sensations and full of pleasant images.

15. As long as you sleep, by Gabriela Mistral

The red rose picked yesterday; the fire and cinnamon that they call carnation;

the baked bread of aniseed and honey, and the fish of the net that makes it burn:

all yours son of a woman, as long as you want to go to sleep at once.

The rose, I say: I say the carnation. The fruit, I say, and I say the honey;

and the fish of lights and more and more too, as long as you sleep till dawn!

One of those children's poems for before bedtimethat help to relax the little ones.