Poems for Kids: A New Place to Begin
- Mark Bird
- Jul 25
- 2 min read
Updated: 15 hours ago
After 33 years of teaching, and many years of writing poems for children, I have finally created one clear home for them on my website.
My new Poems for Kids page is now live on Dreambeast Poems. It brings together funny poems, inspiring poems, school poems, thoughtful poems, science poems, animal poems, seasonal poems and many more, all in one place.
For a long time, my poems have lived in different corners of my website. Some were easy to find. Others were tucked away a little too quietly. As I come to the end of my teaching career, it felt like the right time to gather them properly and create a page that teachers, parents, children and poetry lovers can explore more easily.
The new page is designed as a place to begin. Children might arrive looking for a funny poem, then discover something thoughtful. A teacher might come searching for a classroom poem, then find a poem about kindness, confidence or being different. A parent might be looking for a poem to share at home and find something that opens up a conversation.
That is what I love most about poetry for children. A poem can make a child laugh, but it can also help them feel seen. It can play with words, but it can also touch something quiet inside them. It can be silly, strange, comforting, curious or brave.
The page is organised into clear sections, including:
Some of these poems have been published in anthologies. Some have been shared in classrooms. Some have grown from personal memories, teaching moments, research, strange facts or feelings I wanted children to know they were allowed to have.
Many of them are simply poems I did not want to leave hidden away.
After 33 years in the classroom, I know how powerful the right poem can be at the right moment. Sometimes it gives children language for something they already feel.
Sometimes it makes them giggle when they need lightness. Sometimes it helps them look at themselves, each other or the world a little differently.
That is why this page matters to me.
It is not just a list of poems. It is a map of the things I care about as a children’s poet: kindness, imagination, curiosity, difference, courage, play, grief, wonder and the inner lives of children.
So whether you are a teacher looking for a poem to share with your class, a parent searching for poetry your child might enjoy or a young reader wandering in to see what you can find, I hope this new page gives you somewhere to begin.
You can explore the new page here:
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