Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids.

While you could send funny roses-are-red poems to just about anyone, these rhyming jokes are ideal for sharing with a partner, friends, family and, yep, even kids. If you're sending someone you ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.