With the increasing importance of values education, the question of how to transfer values also comes to the fore. Making use of literary works in value transfer is a frequently used way. Although fictional texts come to the fore in this value transfer or value acquisition process, poems are closer to values by nature among literary works. Values and poems overlap in that they contain implicit meaning, implicitly convey the message, and appeal to emotions. It is important to know how values take place in poems for children, who are the target audience of values education. The aim of this study is to reveal the values in contemporary children's poetry and the changes in the distribution of these values over the years. Thats why children's poems written after 1980 were examined in the context of values. In the study, the data obtained by document analysis were analyzed by content analysis. As a result of the study, it has been seen that the use of individual values in poems is gradually increasing, the most processed value is love, the least discussed value is scientificity, and the values are implicitly given in the poems.
Children's poetry, values, contemporary poetry, 1980.