At what age can kids start writing poems?

At what age can kids start writing poems?

In my experience, two and three-year-olds will start making up a kind of oral poetry just if you get into the habit of playing with words with them. So that they like the idea that words can make echoes, or that they can repeat themselves and create rhythms. And so, in a way, I sort of think the moment we become proficient at language we can make poems. Now, whether you then write them down is another matter because you can have an oral poetry culture or you can have a written one or a mixture of both. So, I would say two and three-year-olds are quite often pretty good poets and so it can go on.