Dad Bear Poems

The idea of Christmas snow in Michigan is replaced with fog
Hot breath exhaled to cold lollipop trees
My blurry life-sized polar bear salutes through the front...

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they don't want dramatic parents anymore
sentimental
they got bored of them
they are sick of exaltation
they don't want the vehemence of which
the parents hung on
convinced that it...

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Little Bear parents argued about where he would hibernate this year.
He wished they would be nice to each other, this was not dear.
Since their separation,...

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Milly and Her Teddy Bear

There is a girl with bright blue hair
Who has a much loved teddy bear 
He is her best friend in the...

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The tiny roly poly proud brown baby bear
Ate a delicious pink pear on a double dare.
It was from his big bossy brother, to be fair.
Which...

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She came charging down on me with her full weight.
I wanted to be invisible, but it did not happen.
I was gripped tightly in the throes...

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I've had a good life; it's a cross that I bear,
For I know, there are many who've not fared as well!
I lived through my own...

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When I was young I read a book
my hero was in there.
The book I'm sure, you've read yourself
about… 'Rupert the Bear'.

But my hero was not...

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I have a friend
His name is Tom
He’s usually sad
And cries at home

Nobody gives him
Kiss or a hug
His mother calls him
Stupid and bug

She calls him nobody
She...

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The little girl cries, alone in her room, holding her teddy bear as the dread sets and looms. 
Crying and shaking, scared to sleep at...

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