The Best Poems by Cecília Meireles for Children

Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian journalist, painter, poet and teacher who was born between 1901 and 1964.
Cecília's works were well known for being light, sweet, simple and charming. Its audience ranged from children to adults.

In today's post, we have separated some poems by Cecília Meireles, an important artist for our Brazilian culture, for you to pass on and exercise your students' reading and literary knowledge. We hope you enjoy:

1. either this or that

Or if there is rain and no sun,
or if there is sun and no rain!

Or if you put on the glove and don't wear the ring,
or you put the ring on and don't put the glove on!

Who climbs in the air does not stay on the ground,
whoever stays on the ground doesn't climb into the air.

It's a great pity you can't
to be in both places at the same time!

Or I keep the money and don't buy the candy,
or I buy the candy and spend the money.

Either this or that: either this or that...
and I live choosing all day long!

I don't know if I play, I don't know if I study,
if I run or stay calm.

But I still can't understand
which is better: whether it is this or that.

2. The dancer

This girl
so small
wants to be a dancer.
Does not know neither do nor re
but she knows how to stand on tiptoe.

Don't know me or fa
But she tilts her body this way and that

He doesn't know him or herself,
but he closes his eyes and smiles.

It rotates, rotates, rotates, with its little arms in the air
and she doesn't get dizzy or move.

She puts on her hair a star and a veil
and she says she fell from heaven.

This girl
so small
wants to be a dancer.

But then forget about all the dances,
and also wants to sleep like other children.

3. The girls

Arabela
opened the window.

Carolina
she raised the curtain.

And Mary
she looked and smiled:
"Good Morning!"

Arabela
she was always the most beautiful.

Carolina,
the wisest girl.

And Mary
just smile:
"Good Morning!"

We will think of each girl
who lived in that window;

one called Arabela,
one called Carolina.

But the deep longing
it's Mary, Mary, Mary,

who said in a friendly voice:
"Good Morning!"

4. the echo

the boy asks the echo
Where does he hide.
But the echo only answers: Where? At where?

The boy also asks him:
Eco, come walk with me!

But you don't know if echo is a friend
or enemy.

Because you only hear him say: Migo!

5. Chico Bolacha's farm
At Chico Bolacha's farm,
what is looking for
you never think!

When it rains a lot,
Chico plays on the boat,
because the farm turns into a pond.

When it doesn't rain at all,
Chico works with the hoe
and soon gets hurt
and has a swollen hand.

That's why, with Chico Bolacha
what is looking for
you never think!

They say that Chico's farm
there's only chayote
and a lame dog
called Caxambu.

Other things nobody looks for,
why don't you think,
poor Chico Bolacha!