Parents Child Poems

He dreams of the carousel at the park
Excitement stirs, as only friend, First Bloom
Released like he, gambols on the boardwalk
Arabian, garden wild, hooves steel dark

Marvelous...

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Oh child of mine with wayward thought.
 Remembering naught that which I've taught.
Those things of wisdom to make you strong.
Those morals of right rather than...

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On the bottom rung 
crawling up the stairs, 
My life has just started,
I’m free without a care, 
But something’s urging me
to keep pushing on
Struggling on...

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Children come and children go.
And in between we watch them grow.
Through the good times and the bad.
Through happy moments as well as the sad.

We heal...

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I look back at a time
When I was too young to decide
She had the power to choose
If I could make it or not
And I had...

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Written by Gail DeBole
on March 11, 2020


- Putting together a scrapbook of your child’s best moments
- Creating an heirloom bedspread out of old T-shirts for...

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Parents: He’s fine but just on the spectrum
Slightly dyslexic, number blind and 
A tadge autistic and is allergic to
Snails, bees and litmus paper.
He needs a...

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the sweet innocence of children
in the hands of their parents
to be molded by example
influenced day to day
eager for attention
curious nature
funloving
naïve
joy



posted on March 2, 2020...

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Dear Parents,

As your children we love collecting things…
We collect bugs.
We collect dolls.
We collect the feathers that fall from birds.
But we’re also listening to everything you...

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Raise your child 
To be brave and confident
Encourage them to live their truth

Raise your child to think
To allow ideas to infiltrate their dreams
Entice them to...

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Nightmare are dreadful things
They creep into subconscious minds
And tear at sanity's fragile strings 
Turning our thoughts to things unkind

I was a teacher of children small
And...

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parents and grandparents
making this world
a better place
one child
at a time



posted on February 17, 2020...

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Seem so simple, trivial, these books but aren't.
Firstly, humans are picture people. Always been so.
Young minds forming memory, cognition.
Before kids can read, they can conceive...

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On a very stormy day,
During summer holiday,
Three little friends 
got together to spend
A day in-doors,
To while away their time!
They said they would write
 the story...

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Success
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;

there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award,...

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A World Few Know.
.
A subterranean world
Deep in the bowels of the ground 
Unseen by the city above
One that seems not to care
Where there isn’t much...

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Not Elves, Exactly
by Michael R. Burch

Something there is that likes a wall,
that likes it spiked and likes it tall,

that likes its pikes’ sharp rows of...

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No words can express my elation at becoming a mother
Show my tears of joy on that perfect wintery morn
Go and show my parents our tiny...

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Little Ben picked up an ink pen,
To write a letter to his father,
Sat at his little table and chair,
In his mother’s bedroom up stair!

He started...

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Martial epigram translations

You never wrote a poem,
yet criticize mine?
Stop abusing me or write something fine
of your own!
?Martial, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

He starts everything...

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