Family Poems

Here's the troop.

Quatrains are a wonderful and fresh idea for a set of family poems that will be treasured forever by your children or grandchildren. Here's an idea to celebrate the twigs on your family tree. There are even instructions at the bottom about rhyme and meter to use.

Quatrain Poetry

Some family poems for legacy
To grandkids in your family tree
When little ones are dearly prized
It's fitting they're immortalized.

Ideas are here for you to try
To give to grandkids by and by
The children's poem, for you to share
Expressed with your poetic flare.

Why not make a set of children's rhymes featuring each of your children or grandchildren every year? Deliver them on Christmas or at that July 4th picnic and you will have a marvelously personal set of family poems - a veritable time capsule - and a gift that will never tarnish or break. Here's this year's installment of our family poems:

Sophia

Sophia curls up on the couch
And not because she is a grouch
Nor is she lazy, gone to seed,
Ah no, the child prefers to read.

Lily

Our Lily's into bugs and bats
The leg that crawls, the wing that flaps
The fin that swims the deepest sea
She'll study entomology.

Andrew

Andrew has a quiet poise
Like Buddha, he makes little noise.
He isn't much like other boys
With all the big words he employs.

Daniel

Daniel ducks behind a tree
Could he be afraid of me?
Who can tell why he's so shy?
Perhaps he's just a John Wayne guy?

Thomas

Thomas in his little cast
Still gets around, and pretty fast
Is not deterred, this toddler, he
Persists although uncertainly.

Sam

Sam is on the go all day
His language, terse, he'd rather play.
When running, he is fast and fleet
Into a tree on little feet.

Ana

Little Ana has two eyes
That seize the soul and mesmerize.
Chimera changes cross a face
Petite, demure, and full of grace.

Elisa

Elisa is a princess pink
With no delay twixt "say" and "think"
A ballerina chatterbox
A beauty and a paradox.

George

A linebacker, our little George -
And what he intakes, he'll disgorge
When tossed into the air is he
By unsuspecting Uncle D.

Ollie

Ollie's just a piebald cat
For now, we'll have to do with that
Because the grandcat's all we see
From this emergent family.

Make copies for all the kids and chances are good that your family poems will carry well into the future. Quatrain poetry is relatively straightforward and wildly versatile. Always four lines, but a variety of rhyme schemes (aabb, abab, abcb, aaaa, abba) and your choice of "feet":

Iambic tetrameter: da DUH, da DUH, da DUH, da DUH Iambic pentameter: da DUH, da DUH, da DUH, da DUH, da DUHIambic trimeter: da DUH, da DUH, da DUH

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