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Passing of Silly Traditions

With flavored kisses she put me to sleep a cheek sting of peppermint forehead of lingonberry eye lids of mango and ear lobes of fig She peppered me kisses and smiled to discover each remembrance of taste with mystery lips My nose: watermelon My chin: cantaloupe while I giggled silly she listed each kiss My sleeping was sweetly induced into this. Now I am the mamma and tuck into sleep with my own set of kisses my little girl waits for peppermint cheeks and strawberry lips and ear lobes of sugar cress eye lids of figs She giggles silly and waits on my words Her forehead: papaya Her chin: berries blue Her nose: watermelon and so we review each thing that she's made of all sugar and spice and my mamma lives on in my little girl's eyes.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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