Short Funny Poems for Kids

Welcome to a new and exciting website full of poems for kids. There are silly poems and soppy poems. There are cuddly poems and cute poems. Best of all, there are lots and lots of really funny poems and they're all really short. If you're used to the long, boring poems that they teach in schools - Wordsworth, yawn; Keats, yuck - it might come as a surprise that people occasionally write poems for kids to enjoy. I promise that you won't find any long boring poems here. You may find the odd boring poem, but at least it's guaranteed to be short and therefore painless!

Short Poems

If you are new to the whole poetry game, start by reading some short poems. Short poems are not necessarily good poems, but if they turn out to be rubbish you haven't wasted hours of your life reading them. One of the best ways to really get to know a poem is to read it aloud. Better still, try to learn the poem by heart and then recite it. It's a good idea to practice in the peace and quiet of your bedroom, away from prying ears and eyes. Then, when it's perfect, amaze all your friends and family by reciting the poem to them.

Funny Poems

Once your family and friends are used to you reciting poetry left, right and centre, expand your repertoire to include some funny poems. If it's good to be told you're clever for reciting poetry, it's an even bigger thrill to recite a funny poem that makes people laugh. Don't overdo it. A funny poem is usually only funny the first time people hear it. Keep learning new poems and everyone will love you; keep on reciting the same poem to the same people and you've got a very effective weapon for annoying the pants off dads, mums, brothers, sisters and even teachers.

Short Funny Poems

In my book, short poems are good, funny poems are better and short, funny poems offer the best of both worlds. I really enjoy writing funny kids poems and I hope you have a few chuckles reading them. If you find my poems funny, tell all your friends to visit the site - unless of course you've been reciting my funny poems to them and claiming them as your own, in which case it might rather give the game away. If you don't find my funny poems funny in the least, pretend you've never been here and don't tell a soul.

English Humour

The poems are all written in English and, as I live in England, I write in 'English' English. If you live somewhere like America you will find that some of the spellings look wrong - humour not humor, centre not center. You may also find that some words I use in the poems are unfamiliar and other mean something different to you than to me - in England you wear pants under your trousers, in America you wear pants over your underpants. If you live in a non-English speaking country, congratulations for reading this far and you should find understanding the poems a doddle (easy peasy, a piece of cake - you see the problem). You might be tempted to put the poems through an online translation tool. Don't, the poems are likely to end up as odd funny poems, rather than funny, funny poems. Some say English humour doesn't travel; it certainly doesn't translate.

Haven't I Been Here Before?

You may have ended up at this website when trying to visit the Poetry Mad Kids site. Funny Poems for Kids is a new site which replaces Poetry Mad Kids. Don't worry, all the funny poems from Poetry Mad Kids are still here, but there's a new design and new selections of school poems and rude poetry. Over the coming months we'll be adding even more funny poems, including works by guest poet Paul Curtis, as well as expanding the writing funny poetry section to provide a step by step guide to writing your own funny poems.