Kindness Poems For Children
Poems that Inspire Kindness
Poetry is a great way for us to express our thoughts using beautiful language. Not only does it help us expand our language skills and creativity, but it’s super fun to create! Most importantly, a lot of poetry can teach us valuable lessons about friendship, respect and kindness. Why not have a go at writing a kindness poem for a friend, or someone that you feel needs a little kindness?
‘You’
by Donna Ashworth
A beautiful poem about the power of kindness and the difference we all make every day without evening realising it. Thank you Donna for providing this video for the School of Kindness! Tap the video (on the right) to hear the poem.
Your Kind Poems
We asked children to write poems about kindness, as part of a Kindness Challenge judged by our patron, Donna Ashworth. This is a small selection of the incredible poems we received.
Click and scroll right to see them in their full glory!
Grace
Jude
Lariene
Amber
Amelia
Mae and Scarlett
Unknown
‘A Time to Talk’
by Robert Frost
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, ‘What is it?’
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
‘Kindness’
By Edgar Albert Guest
One never knows
How far a word of kindness goes;
One never sees
How far a smile of friendship flees.
Down, through the years,
The deed forgotten reappears.
One kindly word
The souls of many here has stirred.
Man goes his way
And tells with every passing day,
Until life’s end:
“Once unto me he played the friend.”
We cannot say
What lips are praising us to-day.
We cannot tell
Whose prayers ask God to guard us well.
But kindness lives
Beyond the memory of him who gives.
Others
By Unknown
It doesn’t matter who you are,
Or what you have, or do
If you give of your very best
The best returns to you.
A law of compensation works,
We get just what we earn.
If we love others with our hearts,
We get love in return.
The little things we sometimes do
For others day by day
Return quite unexpectedly
In some peculiar way.
‘Kind Hearts are the Gardens’
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Take care of your garden,
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine;
Kind words and kind deeds.
‘The Little Things’
By Margaret Lindsey
A quiet word, a look, a smile,
A listening ear that’s quick to share
Another’s thoughts, another’s care…
Though sometimes they may seem quite small,
These little things mean most of all.
‘To Lift Each Other’
By Wes Fessler
Is it possible to build a dream by tearing others down?
Is there any way to fly if we refuse to leave the ground?
Not a gain was ever made while shoving someone else aside.
In the course of stopping others, our momentum is denied.
When we find the good in others, praising them for who they are,
we build speed for one another. We’re both able to go far.
It is possible to reach our dreams together if we try.
We must learn to lift each other if we ever hope to fly.
‘If I Could Catch A Rainbow’
By Sandra Lewis Pringle
And, share with you, its beauty, on the days you’re feeling blue.
If I could, I would build a mountain, you could call your very own.
A place to find serenity, a place just to be alone.
If I could, I would take your troubles, and toss them into the sea.
But, all these things, I’m finding, are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain, or catch a rainbow fair;
but, let me be, what I know best,
A Friend, who’s always there.
I promise to defend you, should the occasion ever rise,
And, I promise to wipe away the tears,
which might stream from your weeping eyes.
Let me be the trusted Friend, the one that you know best.
I will never leave you, on that, you can surely rest.
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