Upside Down In Your Bed: Time Poem for Kids. Mindful Poem for Kids.

Upside Down In Your Bed

Sleep upside down inside your bed

Wear underpants upon your head

Climb up a slide, jump off a swing

Wear Hula Hoops like wedding rings

Do roly-polies down a hill

Spring up like you’re a daffodil

Enjoy your knees of scars and scrapes

Put on your coat like it’s a cape

Ride dragon-clouds across the sky

Don’t blink that twinkle from your eye

Go hippo-hop along the Nile

Don’t lose that sparkle from your smile

Play chase, play tag, play hide and seek

but as you count to ten, please peek

See seconds hurtle into weeks

See weeks and months race off and leap

See Time perform his magic tricks:

Today you’re three, tomorrow six

Next month you’re leaving primary school

the next you’re chasing all that’s cool

Today you’re young and that’s a fact

but Time’s a disappearing act

Sleep upside down inside your bed

wear underpants upon your head

Mark Bird