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.