Best Bedtime Story Poems

Once, a long ways away, and a long time ago
Lived a wee little man with his silly pet crow;
And once every day, as the sun went to bed
The wee little man and the crow he called Ted
Would go through the woods on a nice little...

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A Tale of 2 Tails

A Bedtime Story for My Grandsons-by Gwendolen Rix

Two tigers went to the park to play. One tiger had a striped tail and the other tiger had a polka-dotted tail. The striped-tail tiger played harder than any other tiger at the park...

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Just past the tully grass,
Hidden in a berry patch.
Gassamer Willowshimmer has slipped into her matchbox bed.
Fireflys sing her lollybyes untill heavy sets into her eyes.
Dimming down there bright bulbtails,untill little light is left 
lingering there.
And then fast asleep,Gassamer will dream.
Twinkling stars like fairy dust are...

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You’re in that special position you crochet yourself into when you hear me
coming up the steps , a whole breath between each plod of my
bare feet as they tackle the stairs with all the energy of an alpine climber,
day weary, the rewarding peak still somewhere...

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Dear sweet child,
it's time for bed
I'll tell you a story,
kiss your sweet head

Lay down with your blanket,
your night light is lit
And you'll fall asleep,
as you listen to it

Far off in a land,
where nobody goes
Peaches and Apples,
and the strawberry grows

Streams are all full,
of most colorful fish
Lakes...

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Mistakes where made and fingers was pointed
Falling from the trees
Hearts was crushed and time was lost
Blowing away with the breeze

Words being said that slowed the time
In its depth we drowned
Our smile crosses its fingers
Hiding our emotions frown

Long forgotten fables and tales of dreams
Spoke till I...

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Teeger the tiger fidgeting, listening to Corry
read a bedtime story.

Bobby the spider is walking on a wire his web on fire.
He is climbing higher and higher, head feeling lighter and lighter.
A human dropped a water bottle on a bright sunny day that lit his home...

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The depths of my depravity sink
My cruel and careless mind is aligned
With eyes affixed on all I've solely lost:
I dance with my scapegoating ghosts

Yearning to turn the page:
My hands are cut off by Hammurabi--
To keep from gouging Oedipus' eyes:
I am written out of the story

Ambition...

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It was my wife, my son and me, we were at home one weekend
While she played with my son, I was giving a cupboard a mend
They were running around laughing and playing
I was up stairs sanding and spraying

Then all of a sudden it was quiet...

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The silhouettes of my fantasy,

Stirring around my mind,

Deception, conception

Fading away to the kindle of my light,

The memory still vaguely seen upon, father

The fantasy outlines the dream light I once drew but I cannot deliver it,

 By holding my life in tangles of lines that should...

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Summer's Bedtime Story

The grande finale
a beautiful painted sky
rich and deep the hues
tucked in by the cool night air
saying "good-night" to the world.

Contest:  Tanka You
Sponsored by:  Francine Roberts
 Jenny Emelander  7/11/11


Placed No. 3 in Francine Robert's " Tanka You" contest-7/16/2011...

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Doze off to a world or rather a place
With beautiful colors and demons with no face
Waters of red and valleys of black
Once you step in no turning back
The skies once blue now grey have been turned
From the ash and ruin with everything burned
And still yet...

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Bedtime Story
I am struggling, I can’t get out, I chop kick and I fight
I hack at the vegetation so thick it cuts out the light. 
Where did it come from I can’t find my way
It’s dark and suffocating but I still hack and I slay
The...

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There once was an empty life

Then, an interruption,

And the life was full again.

But there is no "happy ever after",

The Interruption

Simply went away,

And the empty life continued.

THE  END...

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In dark alleys the creatures hover
Waiting for you to come their way
And if you do you'll soon discover
Who they consider a meal today!

Tonight's no night to go out and play
The goblins are out and witches too
If you're the one gets in their way
They'll make you...

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