Best Toddled Poems

I looked out of the window what did I see
A beautiful rainbow shining there for me

Remembering the story mam read last night
Will have to go outside, sure it will be alright

If I borrow the brolly with red spots on show
My sister is asleep, she will...

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“She toddled in the mighty Duck
And almost never was”
Whether by design or luck
Or maybe just because

Summertime in Tennessee
So scorching hot and dry 
 The family thought a swim could be
Relief so we would try

While swimming came so easy
For most of us that day
But Mom was...

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Inspired by the painting Automat by Edward Hopper in 1927.
The painting shows a lone woman sat at automated restaurant table.

Viewing the painting will make sense of the poem. I should also add that I was inspired to write this poem by viewing Gary Radice's poem...

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SHACKLES IN THE ANGLES
By Immaculata Ortner

Woe at thou faint hearted blacks
Thou at neither black or white
Wishing our black could blend with white
Which spot like dirt in our prudent race
As our black blood, bled, blue
To Water their loamy fields of flowers
We clustered in the sun!
And toddled...

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Like babies do, I crawled along the "path of life",
Then "toddled" my way without much strife.
Walking now upon stronger limbs,
Many adventures reeled in like films.

I bit, I tasted, I tore, I scribbled, I banged
On everything that would twang.
Then when at three I prattled a lot,
They...

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 He was just a little wiener;
our precious little pup 
and I was just a toddler,
when my breakfast, he did sup.

How he loved his burgers;
ham he loved, as much.
He could quickly murder 
bologna, cheese and such.

I toddled along behind him
his tail, I held in brace.
He...

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I was minding my own business, a smart tabby cat lazing in the sun,
As the chief of this roost, the house diva, the boss of my domain,
Having such a busy itinerary, its really hard to get all things done,
I have to eat and sleep then...

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The fancy degree from a world famous school
set in a frame that’s worth more
than the paper on which it’s printed
all the awards
the accolades
none of it has taught you
the lessons I learned long ago
before either of us could even read or had ever heard 
of Shakespeare...

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I just got in from the sweltering heat
With anxiety trickling down my feet
something  kept beckoning me to go for a ride
so I obeyed the spirit and went back outside
I grabbed my bike and speed down the street
Tired exhausted and dead beat
I rode under the...

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Child’s Play


Perhaps we should let the children lead.
Two mothers sat on a bench
speaking in an unusual tongue,
one sat alone scanning her cell phone,
a Dad pretended to teach his daughter to fish,
grandparents toddled after a toddler.

The children did what children do
follow the sound of children’s voices,
gravitate...

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Attracted by the different hues in glass bottles 
                          My little daughter saw them lined on dad's table
  ...

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Mum and dad were not happy  -
What was the reason for all this fuss?
I toddled off into the garden to see them
They were looking very curious

The evidence was plain for all to see
Just one solitary little footprint on the new concrete path
Mum asked was...

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I clapped eyes on some jimjams
at me local Marks and Sparks,
but strapped for readies,
I couldn't buy them
and had to treat it as a lark.

It was a shame,
for they were prezzies.
(I do like Marks and Sparks...)
I looked around at bits and bobs,
then toddled to the park.


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U.K....

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Dad, You Suffered Me


You looked to the North
I stared to the West
My desire gone forth
I thus failed your test.

"My eyes are not blind,
"and ideas quite alright."
I turned from behind
led by leisure's light!!

          *

Wastrel of fast renown
my...

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A variation on a theme by Dr. Seuss...

There once was a Grinch who was bad to the bone,
Which was why he always spent Christmas alone,
But one year the Grinch said, "Enough is enough!"
And decided to steal everyone's Christmas stuff.

In the village below, in the center...

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