Becky Bond: a Friendship Poem for Kids about Going to a New School

A girl chasing a boy around The Kissing Tree. The tree has lips instead of leaves.

Becky Bond

Becky Bond is in my class

I wish she’d go away

She tries to hold my hand at break

I wish she'd go and play

She’s chases me and pecks my cheek

beneath The Kissing Tree

She says that we’ll get married soon

I wish I wasn’t me

She whispers answers to the test

I hope my friends don't see

She gives me Love Heart sweets that say

Be Mine, Dream Boy, PICK ME

She makes the class all laugh out loud

when yowling like a cat

She does this funny chicken dance

She’s really good at that

When Miss is cross, she takes the blame

I like her ski-jump nose

I lend her my new sharpener

as long as no one knows

She loves The Simpsons, SpongeBob too

We both love Patrick Star

She gave me her new Squidward pen

I told her she’s like Bart

She scored a hat-trick after lunch

I like her quite a bit

She took on Banga in Year 6

I like her, I admit

She burped in science, got told off

I like her quite a lot

She's coming mine on Saturday

The bestest friend I've got

But Becky was off school today

Her family's had to move away

Miss peeled the name tag from her tray

I hugged The Kissing Tree at play

No one chased me, no one could

not like the way that Becky would

I gulped the lump back down my throat

Felt Squidward safe inside my coat

I sat next to her empty chair

I wished so much that she was there

to laugh and joke, to run and fly

Just one more chase before goodbye

💡 In this friendship poem for kids, a child loses his friend as she has to move away - a friend he didn't like at first. I think most of us have lost a great friend whose parents had to move somewhere else. Have you ever become best friends with someone you thought you didn't like at first? Could you write a friendship poem for kids about the journey from not liking someone to loving them? Or a friendship poem about losing a best friend?