Summer is one of the most enjoyable seasons, with long days and short nights, providing plenty of opportunities for your children to play and participate in exciting activities. One such activity can be reciting summer poems for kids, which can be fun and interesting. Though summer doesn’t last all year round, they can be enjoyed regardless of the season. Continue reading to learn about some of the best summer poems your children can recite while enjoying the season.
Summer Poem For Kids
Summer lets you get exposed to nature. These poems help you get close to the beautiful and pleasant summer season’s sea, sun, wind, and trees.
1. The Summer Day
Who made the world? Who made the swan and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes? Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open and floats away. I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver
2. Summer Song
Wanderer moon smiling a faintly ironical smile at this brilliant, dew-moistened summer morning,— a detached sleepily indifferent smile, a wanderer’s smile,— if I should buy a shirt your color and put on a necktie sky-blue where would they carry me? – William Carlos Williams
3. Summer Stars
Bend low again, night of summer stars. So near you are, sky of summer stars, So near, a long-arm man can pick off stars, Pick off what he wants in the sky bowl, So near you are, summer stars, So near, strumming, strumming, So lazy and hum-strumming. – Carl Sandburg
4. Warm Summer Sun
Warm summer sun, Shine kindly here, Warm southern wind, Blow softly here. Green sod above, Lie light, lie light. Good night, dear heart, Good night, good night. – Mark Twain
5. I Love Summer
I love summer! Summer is hot. It’s sun and shade. It’s water to wade. It’s frogs and bugs. It’s grass for rugs. It’s eating outside. It’s a tree-swing ride. It’s tomatoes and corn. It’s dew in the morn. It’s dogs and boys And lots of noise. It’s a hot sunny sky. It’s summer. That’s why….. I love summer. In the summer when the days are hot, I like to find a shady spot, And hardly move a single bit And sit, and sit, and sit, and sit. – Unknown
6. Summer Sun
Summer sun in the sky Shining, shining up so high Makes it warm for outside fun To play at the park and run To swim, hike, and fish And go on a picnic, if you wish! – Unknown
7. Summer Rain
I know it can’t be summer, It’s raining and raining outside. The thunder cracks and lightening smacks, I’m glad that I’m inside. Then all of a sudden the sun peeks through, As if to say hello, I guess it needs to rain sometimes, For the flowers and trees to grow. – Debbie Hasbrook
8. A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky
A boat, beneath a sunny sky Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July— Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear— Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die: Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream— Lingering in the golden gleam— Life, what is it but a dream? – Lewis Carroll
9. In the Mountains on a Summer Day
Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-trees trickles on my bare head. – Li Po
10. Golden Sun
Great, glorious, golden sun, Shine down on me today! You are the life of all this earth, You and your magic ray. You are the life of bird and planet, All must depend on you. Shine down, great sun, the whole day long! Shine from the heaven’s blue. And I will welcome your golden rays, For you mean life to me, And you mean happiness and health, Strength and energy. Shine down, great sun, on flower and field, And never say goodbye. Forever and ever give us your light From out the wide, blue sky. – Lenore Hetrick
11. Summer Morning
I saw dawn creep across the sky, And all the gulls go flying by. I saw the sea put on its dress Of blue midsummer loveliness, And heard the trees begin to stir Green arms of pine and juniper. I heard the wind call out and say: Get up, my dear, it is today! – Rachel Field
