Best Sitter Poems
Affected Art Baby Sitter-
Flickered fingers;
Can't dial ringers;
Telephone calls;
Babies cry and crawls;
what do you do?
what do you do?
When their diapers fall?...
6/8/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2020...
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Categories:
sitter, adventure, anxiety, caregiving, engagement,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dog Sitter
I once sat a pet for a good friend
He said "come and take it easy"
The Jacuzzi and food never ends
Just until I get back from Belize
I said " You got it, I'll do it"
I had met Spot, he was cool
But, within an hour I was bit
Pulling him out of the pool
I had just got him...
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Categories:
sitter, adventure, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Pew Sitter--
I'd go to church
Every Sunday
Often find myself there
On Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Friday
oh! what am I but just a glorified Church goer;
A modified, glorified, pew sitter;
Oh! God, help me, Lord;
I don't wanna be just a pew sitter;
Praising you inside this church building;
whom am I but just a forgiven sinner;
I should be more than a pew...
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Categories:
sitter, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, encouraging,
Form:
Lyric
Ode To a Fence-Sitter
I marvel at your balance,
And how firm your buttocks be,
Seated on a narrow perch,
With cheeks so splinter-free.
You never make your mind up,
That is no easy task!
And dodge every question,
No matter what is asked,
You’ve mastered indecision,
You’re an expert of unsure,
You understand the points against,
As well as all those for.
Your skill is really best shown,
When presented...
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Categories:
sitter, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Sitter
I've got a sitter called Mub,
a boring hitter in a bum-
the crisscrossing of falling things evaporate with me,
as I'm seeing,
savoring moments of feelings becoming beamed,
but I get back after a whole thing,
sauntering-
and rock climbing-
and coarse rhyming,
blasting um' all off but still needing more timing....
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Categories:
sitter, angst, art, bird, blessing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Baby Sitter
I watch her sleeping a helpless rose without me
Like a man watching her sleeping wife
Her life looking innocent and scary
I then change diapers
She hates diapers
But she cries when you don't remove them
And mourns as you remove them
Just like her mother
Then we play games together
I act her age to win her love
I prepare...
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Categories:
sitter, age, i love you,
Form:
Romanticism
I'M a Haunted House Sitter, You Bet
Many people have houses that are filled up with ghosts
And the problem they cause is the huge shortage of hosts
For there aren't many willing to tolerate that
Which is where I ride in with my ghost buster's hat.
It was long, long ago when I started to read
All those books about demons and statues that bleed
I became...
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Categories:
sitter, evil, gothic, grave, home,
Form:
Quatrain
Daemon Sitter
Sitter of the wee,
titan tamer of babies...
let them scream, cry, and drool
I cannot be uncool-ed.
Tick-tock the hours by and by,
as terror this child may try...
armed with diapers and wipes
we learn potty 101.
Pee in the tub,
poo he smears and rubs...
on the floor; in the trash,
count to 10 think of the cash.
Give me, I want, now, no,
how...
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Categories:
sitter, baby, care, children, fun,
Form:
Free verse
The Sitter
The Sitter
There it is
Sitting in the old wicker chair
Grinning its foul slavering grin
It moves nothing than its face.
Every night it appears
Until waking and shaking
I reach for the pull light string
It then evaporates at pace.
I will take the chair back
With its eviction will go the glob
Never more to appear
With its evil sneer
Its...
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Categories:
sitter, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sitter
The Sitter
Nothing disturbed the tranquil air,
The tick, tick of the time-worn clock.
The sitter in the wooden chair
Not hearing the gentle, gentle knock.
An old, old man by the broken door,
...
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Categories:
sitter, lost, memory,
Form:
Quatrain
Cat Sitter
My hemorrhoid
cushion
looks a lot like
our black cat
curled up
on my recliner
So, I am
always
worried about
sitting
on her
Although
she would
be soft....
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Categories:
sitter, cat,
Form:
Free verse
Mended Zafu, Unmended Sitter
worn-white zafu,
dented permanently
and wryly receiving
my bottom and my word
"permanently."
It shows impressions
from my demanding waitings,
just as my mind does.
Ah! The problem....
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Categories:
sitter, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
The Sitter
The Sitter
They rushed me in.
I had no time to prepare.
Talk they said.
Entertain.
We will not be... long,
it was a song.
Fear.
My first response.
Prayer,
should have been.
In the end,
adrenalin and panic
gave way to remembered
moments with my own mother.
Shadow puppets on the wall.
A pen to draw...
even more on hands...
All...
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Categories:
sitter, child, childhood, chocolate, daughter,
Form:
Narrative
Get a Sitter Daddy Said
Get a sitter Daddy said.
Mom tried the four they knew.
None would come back.
We had played the trick on all of them.
We are identical twins.
One of us would yell “Sissy is running away!”
The sitter would chase them from front door to back door.
Once the twin was inside, the other twin would lock the back door too.
Both...
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Categories:
sitter, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
Old Zafu, Old Sitter
Gray hairs on my zafu...
Incense, all but dust...
I'm running out of time
to run out of 'me.'
I'm running out of trust
that I might ever see
a world without me
from a place within
without me peering
out.
Gray hairs on my zafu...
Incense, all but dust...
The light is low,
this I know,
and there lies
the Problem....
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Categories:
sitter, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse