Butterfly Poems For Kids

Butterflies are beautiful and colorful insects. These creatures with beautiful wings undergo four stages in their life cycle – egg, larva, pupa and mature adult. Butterflies are the most beautiful looking creatures in the world. They like to collect nectar from flowers. Help your little ones learn to appreciate these wonderful creatures using poems for kids like butterfly poems for kids. This will help them learn new words, develop a good vocabulary and language skills. Check out some famous butterfly poems for kids here. 

Famous Butterfly Poems For Kids

• Butterfly, Lend Me Your Wings, I Pray
• Butterfly
• The Butterfly
• Life Like A Butterfly
• The Butterfly
• A Butterfly Talks
• Pretty Butterfly

List of Butterfly Poems For Kids

Here are a few beautiful butterfly poems for kids.

1. Butterfly, Lend Me Your Wings, I Pray

By Annette Wynne

Butterfly, lend me your wings, I pray,

Lend me your wings for a golden day,

I would fly over the bush and tree,

Over the children that play with me.

The butterfly lent me his wings, but I

Stayed right on the ground- I could not fly;

My feet were heavy, my head would fall, 

Butterfly, I cannot fly at all!

Butterfly, butterfly, take your wings,

I must go walking like other things,

Butterfly, take back your wings again,

And I shall run after you through the glen.

2. Butterfly

By Paul Peterzell

How graceful,

Fluttering before me,

Butterfly lands,

Colorful as can be.

Adorning a rose petal,

Sun glistening so bright 

A butterfly journey,

Seems like a rather quick flight.

Wing span so wide,

Resting as they do,

A treat to our senses,

A color fest does ensue.

Spotting a new one, 

Blending with the tree,

A difficult task,

Sometimes hard to see.

A delight in the air,

Flying in pairs, 

So glad I witnessed,

With so many wide stares. 

3. The Butterfly

By Margaret Rose

I know a little butterfly with tiny golden wings,

He plays among the summer flowers and up and down he swings,

He dances on their honey cups so happy all the day,

And then he spreads his tiny wings and softly flies away.

4. Life Like A Butterfly

By Catherine Pulsifer

We look and see the butterfly

Its beauty seems to multiply

When the sun hits it wings

Amazing colors it does brings.

Oh how fun it would be 

To be a butterfly so free

But what I do not see

Is the difficulties.

You see life is not easy

It is not all dreamy

The butterfly has struggles

In the cocoon, there can be trouble.

He must persevere to get out

It is up to him he has no clout

He must not give up

If so, he will not develop.

Just like the life we live

We must put life in perspective

We all face challenges we must overcome

And when we do, life is awesome!

So when you see the butterfly 

Remember for life you must apply

The very best that you can be

And you will find life to be happy.

5. The Butterfly

By Pavel Friedmann

The last, the very last,

So richly, brightly, dazzling yellow.

Perhaps if the sun’s tear would sing against a white stone.

Such, such a yellow

Is carried lightly way up high

It went away I’m sure because it wished to 

Kiss the world goodbye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,

Penned up inside his ghetto

But I have found my people here

The dandelions call to me

And the white chestnut candles in the court

Only I saw another butterfly.

That butterfly was the last one,

Butterflies don’t live in here, 

In the ghetto.

6. A Butterfly Talks

By Annette Wynne

A butterfly talks to each flower

And stops to think and drink,

And I have seen one lightning

In a quiet spot to think,

For there are many things he sees that puzzle him, indeed,

And I believe he thinks as well as some who write and read. 

7. Pretty Butterfly

By Althea Randolph

Flitter, flutter, go your wings,

Pretty butterfly;

You will never play with me;

Won’t you tell me why?

If I had a pair of wings

On my back like you.

Do you think you’d love me more?

Tell me, is this true?

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