17 short poems for children

Children's poetry is a great resource to work on imagination and reading with children.

Short poems are simple texts that trace ideas and reflections on life, friendships, nature and other topics that can be used both in the classroom and at home to stimulate creativity and enjoyment of reading little ones.

1. Poeminho do contra - Mario Quintana

All of you who are there
Atravancando o meu caminho,
They will passarão.
Eu passarinho!

Nesse little poem, or author Mario Quintana manage to transmit a message with lightness and good humor about the need to continue in front despite two "inimigos".

He says that his insults from him will pass, it won't be more important, as long as the "passarinho", or seja, he will live in a free and carefree way.

2. No sem-fim mystery - Cecília Meireles

No mystery do sem-fim
balance-be a planet.

E, no planet, um jardim,
e, no jardim, um canteiro;
I don't quarry a violet,
and, on her, or whole day,

between the planet and the sem-fim,
to the handle of a bubble

Cecília Meireles built a short poem

relationship between the macro and the micro. She starts the text talking about the cosmos, the universe and everything or its mystery.

Next, place a "magnifying glass" on this huge planet to make us power a simple garden, and in it a small bubble. Likewise, the writer manages with few words to deal with great and small matters, and ultimately, gives her own life.

3. Or sunflower - Vinícius de Moraes

whenever or sun
indigo pint
all or céu
or sunflower
fica um gentile
Carrossel.
Roll, roll, roll carrossel
Turn, turn, turn sunflower
Redondinho like or céu
Marelinho like or sun.

Or sunflower and its affinity with its own sun are themes of this cute children's poem.

The author Vinicius de Moraes presented us with a simple text that traced sunflower as a kind of "jump", a giant wheel, a carrossel.

Isso because you know-I know that in bloom sunflower turns its petals just for the sun, looking for the luminosity and heat of the astro-king.

4. Dance not serene – Ruth Rocha

Singer sings sadness,
sing joy too.
It is of its nature
sing or bad e or bem.
Pois ele tem within
or I sing that or I sing tem…
By isso, se or mar secar,
it is charged to buy sapato,
be puppy turn cat,
I know or I can speak dumb,
It's a chuva chover pra top,
be cheap for grã-fina,
When the ambassador for em top,
Cantador vai will stall.

This is a poem in homage to the singers and singers - and in a certain way to all the artists. Ruth Rocha represents artistic activity, not case or song, as a necessity for the singer, as something inherent and natural.

Assim, she traces examples of absurd situations as a way of saying that as soon as these fates have happened, the singers (and artists) will stop externalizing their love and happiness.

5. Bagunca - Leo Cunha

Bagunça rhymes with criança,
bagunça é prima da lambança,
bagunça dance, dancer,
começa e nem always ends,
meek bagunça,
that girl,
Rest from belly to top.

A poetry for children normally uses the children's universe as a way of approximating the text.

Here the author uses terms related to brincadeiras e faz um interesting game with words, exhibiting as a character an experienced girl from Bagunceira.

6. For now I'm small - Pedro Bandeira

For now I'm small,
more vou learn to read:
ja sei ler inteira word,
read to the top, and to the bottom,
and planting banana!
For now I'm small,
a thing vou dizer,
with certainty and joy:
I know I'll never forget
da beauty da poetry!

Pedro Bandeira was known as a writer focused on the children and youth public. Nesse poem, he shows a small child in his process of literacy.

A child is proud of his conquests and declares o love pelas words and pela poetry. The short poetic text is an incentive for boys and girls to continue developing in the challenging task of learning to read

7. O Elephantinho - Vinicius de Moraes

Where are you going, elephant?
running hair road
Assim tao disconsolate?
You're lost, bichinho
You espetaste or pé no espinho
What do you feel, poor coitado?
— I'm with a damaged fear
I found a passarinho

Esse single poem by Vinicius de Moraes is about the childish media. Showing an elephant filhote as the protagonist, or author addresses or fear and naivety.

O elefantinho, despite being big and strong, terrified passarinhos. Contradição, the poem emerges as a fun and bem-humorous resource.

8. Leilão de Jardim - Cecília Meireles

Who buys me a garden with flowers?
Borboletas of many cores,
lavadeiras e passarinhos,
Green and blue eggs for children?
Who buys me this snail?
What does a ray of sunshine buy me?
A lizard between the wall and the hera,
a statue of Spring?
Who buys me this formigueiro?
And this toad, what is a gardener?
E a cicada e a sua canção?
E o grilinho inside do chão?
(This is my leilão.)

This is one of the two most famous poems for children written by Cecília Meireles. The writer exhibits her nature with simplicity, but presents the elements in a fanciful and creative manner.

She uses repetition, rhyme and description as a didactic resource, building a poem that stimulates the imagination and captivates children and adults.

9. A Centopeia - by Marina Colasanti

What was that first
I had an idea
to count um by um
pes da centopeia?
If a leg starts
could it be that bichinha manca?
And answer before eu esqueça
it exists or bug of cem pés
Could it be that there are some cem cabeças?

Marina Colasanti jumps with an unusual characteristic gives centopeia Possuir muitas pernas, or that gives origin to the name of the insect.

It reflects on the functioning of the legs of the bug and stimulates the imagination of the children to wonder if there would be an animal with cem cabeças.

10. Minha escola - by Jane Emirene

When you go to my school
I have a lot or what to do
Pulo, I jump, I make art
But I also want to learn
My friends in the room
I'm small like eu
Give laughter, be happy,
São bacanas... are you seus?

This is a short poem about school and child socialization. Optimum to be worked in the room at the beginning of the classroom, or the text presents a happy character in the school environment and with his friends.

He still asks the interlocutor of his colleagues who are also legal, drawing the reader to reflect on his own friendships.

11. All things, by Arnaldo Antunes

all the things
do world not
head numa
idea. But you-
do it fit numa
word, nesta
word all.

Nesse poem, Arnaldo Antunes aponta como são you do not know the things that exist in the world.

He teaches us about the diversity of the world and how it is not possible to tackle all issues at once. Meanwhile, it presents the word "everything" as a solution, where all the things are contained.

12. Spring - by Gerusa Rodrigues Pinto

Spring, flower season
Emphasize the fields that ficam em festa
Wave multi core bubbles
They look like flowers of many colors.

I will pass you happily sing
E o beija-flor de flor em flor
Announce to Spring
Happy season of lots of love.

O text represents a homage to the flowers, bubbles and cores of spring. The nature is described in a fabulous way and makes us feel like taking advantage of the sunny days in the middle of the plants.

This is an interesting poem to work with children in the seasons of the year and value nature.

13. Amarelinha, by Maria da Graça Rios

sea ​​sea
I'll be
mother line
seven brush houses.
I stop
e la vou
num pulinho
make more of a point
no ceu

Here we see more of a small poem that represents brincadeira de criança in a lyrical and imaginative way.

Amarelinha is a very common game that encourages motor coordination and also creativity. The author transforms brincadeira into something even more fanciful, where as children manage to reach or céu.

14. Espantalho, by Almir Correia

Homem de palha
capim's heart
vai embora
years pouquinhos
no bico dos passarinhos
and end

In plantations, it is common to place palm fronds - espantalhos - in order to frighten passarinhos that eat fruits. No poem, or frightening does not afflict the passarinhos, but it is dicated by them.

It is interesting in the image that the author creates, saying that man from the palm possui um coração. Isso tells us about the story of the Magic of Oz, in which the frightened man is sad because he doesn't have a brain and the canned man is looking for a heart.

15. A wave - Manuel Bandeira

what's up
where are you going
what's up?
ainda wave
what's up
still go
where?
where?
to wave to wave

Manuel Bandeira wisely combines very similar words to create a poem trava-língua no qual a proper sonority is associated with the matter.

Ao pronounce tais palavras, or som lembra or movimento das marés, indo e vindo as waves.

16. O Eco - Cecília Meireles

Or little question to the echo
Where is he hiding?
Mas o echo only replies: Where? Where?
Or menino também lhe pede:
Echo, come walk with me!

But she doesn't know if she echoes her friend
ou friend
Pois só lhe ouve dizer: Migo!

More than once Cecília Meireles presents a children's poem where treat da friendship using rhyme and repetition curiously.

The echo is a natural effect in which the sound waves collide with an obstacle and return, giving the impression of being a response. But this "answer" of the echo is barely the end of the words.

Likewise, the writer takes advantage of this phenomenon to create a story in which the character seeks friendship with an invisible being, in a more philosophical sense, with himself.

17. Gaivot - Lalau

Gaivot
Live la no ceu.
Gaivota vai,
Gaivota Volta,
Gaivota vai,
Gaivota Volta,
and you ovos?
when is that
to gaivot
Boot?

These words when combined with other similar words can become fascinating jumpers!

Nesse poem or author jump with the words and their meanings, outlining a question about the gaivotas and their moments of rest, because she lives flying not céu.

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