Best Tonka Poems

I was walking through the city streets 
When I passed a foursome gang 
Who were playing with a Tonka truck 
And an old raggedy doll that sang 

She sang about her unhappiness 
Because her reddened eyes were crossed 
And she sang about her loneliness 
Because...

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Under my 8 year old brothers bed
lies my dog chewed Barbie, no sign of her head
a faded Snoopy cartoon, deflated yellow Birthday balloon
and one stuffed zoo animal baboon
Romote toy car from Uncle Tom
Cassette of Raffi, sing-a-long songs
half a fruit roll-up, and a beat up
tonka truck

A...

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I’d made a tower, a wooden block tower that reached toward the sky
And on the roof stood my superman toy, I believed he wanted to fly.
He stood beside a Tonka truck that was parked safely in a truck stop.
It was an amazing build this tower...

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A Straight Guy in a Gay Tie

Some Men want to be Girlies,
Some Girls want to be Boys,
Some Guys like to play Barbie’s,
Some Ladies like Tonka Toys.

Genes get a bit muddled up,
It happens, It’s all in the brew.
Genetic codes keep us guessing,
When one is created by...

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Matchbox and Hot Wheels
I played with both as a child
then came Tonka Trucks...

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A Grandmother's Wisdom

All that my parents left me
could fit into a paper sack
carried like a leaden weight
strung across my broken back

A pair of bronzed booties
a jacket and Tonka truck
a small photo of Grandma 
along with a note of "Good Luck"

I was left with confusion
and an...

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What I Have Seen

Chubby fingers, chubby toes;
Clear blue eyes and turned up nose.

Everything's so bright and new,
Little Baby I love you.

Hop scotch, Barbies, long brown curls,
We thank you God for little girls.

Baseball diamonds, lots of toys;
Tonka trucks for little boys.

School days, Proms, and lots of...

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(to be read out loud)


I'll eat the nibble naggle nooky nickel
	nipple nappy mum mum mum
I'll chew your gooble gobble giggle gaggle
	gimpy grampa's gum gum gum.

I'll call the wimpy wappy wiggle waggle
	wacky wobble wum wum wum
I'll drink the wiggin' wimple whoopy whacker
	wookie worker's rum rum rum.

Woo...

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Baby, You're not mine
I'm not giving you the time
I'm too busy
writing my lines
in sweetness sublime
Baby, Get away
I don't want to play
With 
Your sandbox of toys
Your mommy took away
I'll drive my Tonka truck
All over your face
To release you games
Don't you cry
at me in shame
I'll make you...

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We're nearing the end of another year
But this one feels different than before
As we mourn our heroines and hero's
Hearts of family and friends are sore

There's Eddy, Pete and Peter Green
They're guitarists in their own way
Lost to the Great Gig in the Sky
Amidst those twenty twenty...

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these are the words of a seeker of light
a believer in the knowledge of old
through our fathers we reach a new height
from their lives, and the stories they've told

we must never forget, or sunder the ties
that binds us all to our past
for that is where...

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these are the words of a seeker of light
a believer in the knowledge of old
through our fathers we reach a new height
from their lives, and the stories they've told

we must never forget, or sunder the ties
that binds us all to our past
for that is where...

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Going ‘round about, up and down,
Always crawling out of bounds,
Big brown eyes, tiny pink feet,
Great big smiles, without any teeth.

Giggles and grins rule his day,
Play with me mommy his face seems to say.
My joy, my dreams; bouncing on my knee,
I thank the Lord daily for...

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This poem was written on May 3, 2022,
When I heard the alerts for the next few days.
From 4-6 May 2022,  8-10 Tornadoes,
Hit Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas.

There's the siren that sounds,
That sends fear thru our veins and,
Has us running to hide and cover.
We watch the...

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Now in our lives we forget about the love we felt and remember the hurt we gave.
 In our lives we die a thousand times.
 When we died no one cried .
We live like there's no tomorrow, and when we we are dead it's just...

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