Baby Thoughts

Baby Thoughts

Hugs are babies’ first official language
Followed by triangles, circles, with assorted symbols
Infants pay special attention to white pillows and quilts
Sleep is always on their minds
Flowing over yellow ribbons of light and energy
Babies contemplate squares and rectangles lifted from the fog
They think about animals as fury toys and perceive them thusly 
Images come slowly and they focus on shiny things
They feel their tiny fingers and toes to stay in touch
Letters and numbers are foreign to them now
Yet they understand some things about them in their world
Pink and white dreams of billowy clouds bounce by
They think to take this ride a lot
Streams of life with limited visibility color in the blurs
Shapes of things to come take form in these meanderings 
They know two mountains warm with riches wait for them
Breasts filled with vitamins and milk
They cling to these mounds for nourishment
They rest their heads and think goo goo gaa gaa
It is the foundation of a doctoral dissertation later in life
While mothers voice flows over them like thick warm honey
Babies think of deeper sleep
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Dietrich Avatar
December 12, 2014 at 4:15 PM
what a marvelous poem about babies and what they must be thinking. I sometimes wonder what kind of thoughts the baby Jesus must have had. surely they were more lofty than this!
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December 12, 2014 at 4:45 PM
Hi Andrea, Thank you for commenting. I'm glad you enjoyed it. In addition to the lofty thoughts, I hope the baby Jesus had warm thoughts all the time. Take care. Earl
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