Mystery Child Poems

Children's Poems XI

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



To My Child, Unborn
by Michael...

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Path to joy
By Michelle Morris
24/12/2023

I gave you my wings
So you could fly
I gave you my strength
So that you would try

I gave you my life
So you...

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My sorrow has reached its pinnacle
My opinion described as cynical 
Flowing from deepest regret
All the way to try to forget
Why this condition came to be
I...

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Across a field,
the tips of tall grass tremble
in the moonlight. There are
silent wings gliding the dark,
soft callings way off in the distance
and occasionally, glowing eyes
seen...

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In an old vineyard 
When Jesus was just a lamb 
His coat eight years old 
Working with the chaste Joseph 
His father and guide 
As...

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In the attic of an abandoned home
Lives a fearsome specter who shrieks and moans.
He breaks the windows and rattles chains, 
The house shudders and quakes...

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Receive
Listen
Be Still

Whispered words arriving on teardrops of the wind
They call to me
Embracing me so that I may exhale
For a moment in time

I look down to...

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In dreamscapes vast, my spirit glides,
Through starlit realms, where mystery hides.
Adventures unfurl, above silver streams,
Where dragons soar, in moonlit beams.

A waltz with time, beneath a...

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Jurassic Prayer

By Mark D. Stucky
We asked our preschooler to pray,
and with dinner plates before us
and our hands folded,
he paused in silence
and then roared in imitation
of...

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The pair of a straight brave birth
That twice gives maternal mirth,
The victory screams louder
And bigger baby powder!

No more held as mystery
While pairs still make history,
Their...

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The love of a mother fills your heart with nothing but joy
The love of a mother makes you fearless,brave and humble 
This love is what...

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Me: "Bing, the intended rhyme scheme for the poem below is ABABAB; and I made additional changes in line 9 of the poem in order...

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October 7th we was greeted with a burst of delight;
And the starr, shimmering like the city at dusk,
So beautiful!

But the day we left your mother...

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“Turtles” 

The stolen child
woke up one day

before a mirror
the window 
reflecting
another world,
a faded memory

turtles -

on the beach that day
a game they played

questions, 
answers,
slow and steady...

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"The Let Down"

it’s never 
what you think 
it’s going to be like,

The Let Down.

rushes in 
and hurts like hell.

after a while
the softness 
in the heart
falls,...

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