Best Caregivingchild Poems


Spare the Rod...

As a child in days gone by
Mother’s rod was swift  but sure
Many a weal as time went by
Scarred my skin an ugly blue.

Nagging was the way of life
My mother used to lay the rule 
Not a day did I cry
Child abuse, nor reported it at school.

Father’s hands lay thick and strong
A whopping blow upon my hide
On the day I failed at sums
That slap brought answers quick to mind.

Even when I pouted and sulked 
Cups or shoes came flying high
Never ever missed the target 
That mother’s aim intended to strike.

No words were kind
When I did wrong
No sparing the rod to spoil the child
Discipline the child was a daily song.

Today the cry is child abuse
For which society has no use
Put the child in a foster home
To grow up to be another deviant one.

 Is it wise to spare the rod?
Or better yet to talk with the child? 
Still mother’s way did well for me
To talk and live like a Jesus child.
Form: Rhyme

Grow Up, Right Now

They want to do the grown up
Like they really grown up
Until that child sprung up
Now they like hold up
But it’s too late now
Just take care of your child
Wish you wouldn’t have laid down
Can’t change your decision now
But even though you have a kid you still got a life to live
It’s gone be hard to gain, now that you got to give
Now how you gone make it
Just because you need it don’t mean that you can take it
Better start praying
Baby daddy like, I’m gone
Should have known
That after he comes he’s gone
I heard it so many times
 He tells her lies, so he can get between her thighs
Knowing its wrong, but it feels right
He shouldn’t have ever lied
He shouldn’t have ever tried
He shouldn’t have left his pride
But now it’s gone and he shouldn’t have said goodbye
So this is my only advice,
They want to do the grown up
Like they really grown up
Until that child sprung up
Now they like hold up
But it’s too late now
Just take of your child
Wish you wouldn’t have laid down
Can’t change that decision now
He told her that he loved her
Took advantage of her
Thought he could move on to another
But now he got a baby mother
Chuck you stuck like glue
How can you deny the kid, when he looks just like you?
Can’t get new tennis shoes because child support due
And for the baby mothers who baby daddy strays
Don’t trip it was probably for the best anyways
More than likely he wouldn’t have done much if he stayed
Just another dead beat daddy that give men a bad name
So all I can say is
Keep fighting through the struggle
Keep pulling when they tug you
Keep walking through the tunnel
Keep making a rebuttal 
And think before you
Want to do the grown up
Like you really grown up
Until that child sprung up
Now you like hold up
But it’s too late now 
Just take care of your child
Wish you wouldn’t have laid down
But you can’t change that decision now
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Gone To Soon Contest

Matilda was two when her dad passed away,
from a drug overdose on that fateful day.
Heath Ledger's love child had no certain fate,
Things moved too fast as he lay intestate.
 
What's to become of this child left behind 
Ledger's father a thief or could he be kind?
As the media frenzy continued to soar
Ledgers friend stepped up to settle the score.
  
He gave movie proceeds as a very first step,
"They may deny Matilda but NOT Johnny Depp!"
Jude and Will antied up as sort of a Shrine,
And little Matilda's life is going to be fine!
 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
Special thanks to Johnny Depp, 
the highest paid movie star in the world, for caring. 


CONTEST:  GONE TO SOON
SPONSOR:  CHRIS MATT
© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


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