Australian Children’s Poetry

Here comes the bus,
Honk honk honk

The boy waves his hands,
Flap flap flap

The bus halts to stop.
Hush hush hush

Up, up he climbs
Wonk wonk wonk

Then taps his card.
Tap tap tap

He jumps up and down.
Hop hop hop!

He shouts and he...

Where to today?
I’m ready to go —
over the hills
at a gallop or slow.

Over the plain,
then through the trees,
say “giddy-up” I’ll race
as fast as you please.

I feel like a canter,
then a nice grassy snack,
and a drink at the creek
on the way back.

So hurry and saddle me,
let’s start with...

One ant
crawls into the crumpled sauce packet
and starts slurping.

Another drags
its dripping body back to the nest.

And a third
lies stuck,
as if it were a fly
in amber.

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Witches brew, goblins groan
Halloween’s here, don’t go alone.
Costumes wild, a spooky sight.
Ghost and ghouls come out at night
Candy stash and pumpkin grins,
Let the trick-or-treating begin!

Monsters lurking, laughter too.
Halloween’s fun for me and you.
So, grab your broomstick, wear a hat
It is time for some witchy ...