Grandsons

Young boys
Love toys
Ring chimes
Sing rhymes
Climb trees
Skin knees
Catch frogs
Pat dogs
Love grime
Spit slime
Downfalls
Spitballs

Teen boys
Fix toys 
Wear jeans
Plant beans
Split logs
Rope hogs
Play ball
Stand tall
Joins Scouts
Sings shouts
Show up
Grow up

Late teens
Build things
Ride hogs
Cut logs
Live good
Bring wood
Some fight
Some write
Toss rings
Have flings
Watch girls 
with curls

Young men
Find glens
Date girls
Buy pearls
Finds wife
For life
Choose right
With might
Sing songs
Right wrongs
Find work
Life’s perk
Result
Adult

By Dane Ann Smith-JohnssenMarch
Copyright March 30, 2015

Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: YOUR FOOTLE POEM 
Sponsor Judy Konos

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Funom Makama

Date: 3/2/2016 8:32:00 AM

What a lovely page with a profound group of words. I am loving every aspect of this piece. Thumbs up friend and a definite 7

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 4/18/2015 2:16:00 PM

Dane, Congrats on your FOOTLE POEM win. LINDA

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 4/11/2015 10:36:00 PM

wow, this one should get award for most work put into it. BIG congrats, Dane Ann

Eve Roper

Date: 4/7/2015 7:27:00 PM

Congratulations on your win and a 7. Blessings Eve

Jan Allison

Date: 4/7/2015 11:36:00 AM

aww cute string of footles - congrats Dane Ann:-) Hugs jan xx

Laura Leiser

Date: 3/30/2015 10:02:00 AM

Great footles about the passage of time with those grandsons!

Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
Date: 4/7/2015 5:24:00 PM

Thanks, Laura. Three of my grandsons live with me. So, doing the first part was easy. They range from 18 months to 11 years of age. The older phases, I wrote remembering my own son who is now only 25. I am old enough to have been his grandmother. So, I felt comfortable and had great fun writing this footle poem.