Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids.

silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you feel like laughing. Maybe that’s why poetry has even taken over TikTok. But if you need a quick-acting dose of inspiration, the short poems in ...

But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

These aren’t just any poems either—they’re some of the most famous and influential lines ever written in the history of the literary form. With these relatively short poems, you’ll ...