Poems By Children
The New York Listening Station
In the city I hear,
Laughing in the park,
The chu-chu of the train,
The alarm in my house,
Going on and on again.Near the water I hear,
Ducks making that quack-quack,
Two boats making little splashes,
The waves making flashes.In the sky I hear,
Aeroplanes cushing,
Birds chip chipping,
Eagles eeeeking.In my house I hear,
My mama snoring,
My cereal cracking in the bowl,
The drums of rock and roll.-Humza, age 3
From Saturday September 10, 2011’s Chrissie Gittins children's program
A thought comes from anywhere in the
water. You push a thought and sometimes
it goes by itself.
-Mohamed
Thoughts come from our imagination
and can be in the brain and our breath.
-Serafina
My thought move swirling and leaping.
-Miles
Thoughts come from anywhere;
the universe; the whole planet.
-Cormac
The bird thought about a thought
of a stone.
-Alex
I am having a thought that has a thought.
-Annie
My thoughts move diagonally to get to
other thoughts.
-Ngawang
A thought is something you want to happen.
-Ramon
My thought is looking at me
and it’s floating.
-Sarai
When we make up a thought they come
from our mind- then we create them again
and again. They move on the river of our
thoughts after it stops to pick up another
and another.
-Spence
My thought makes me feel like me
in the ocean.
-Annie P.
