Giggle Children Poems

An eighteen month old wearing puppy pajamas is running back and forth
in the doctor’s clinic. the waiting room. He has pink cheeks and a loud...

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Too many echoes ...

Too many little voices that never got to giggle,
Too many stained hopes ... and sheets,
Wrapped around tiny bundles that came too soon.
Little...

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Each daisy’s a piece of the moon,
Strewn on the welcoming grass,
Waiting for fidgeting fingers to pass
And weave it in bangles and bows,
Those are not alleys,...

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Awoken was the farmer one bright and early dawn,
Restless and he couldn’t sleep,
So he thought he’d mow the lawn.

He went into the garden and got...

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They draw me punk, they draw me clean, they draw me messy, my kid machine.
I have a cult, they are my regular beings, they come...

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A conversation between me and my son a few years ago about the man who jumped out of the balloon from the stratosphere

I was trying...

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AFV proves that we all love to see
Children and pets goofing up on TV
We can't help but wonder
How little ones blunder
Whilst God is laughing at...

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Each time we learned, new life had been birthed,
down deep where true love grows quite fast;
Our greatest hopes, as parents unearthed,
the sum of our love's...

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Dad had left on urgent business,
something to do with a workers' dispute,
and Mum was at the next-door neighbour's
on one of her 'brief' visits.
Mary, the birthday...

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I push the tall-legged hard thing next to the water thing, and pick up the blue thing.
It’s sticky, and sudsy, and fun.   I...

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My head is on crooked today I cried
I’m not sure how or why.

When I went to bed it was just fine
it was on straight now...

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There once was a child named Drew
Who did what his mom asked him to.
Except for the dishes
When they'd eat some fishes,
For then after meals he'd...

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T’was quite uncanny
How cute little Annie 
Got the gig as the nanny
To care for young Danny
Whose daddy was Giovanni
All while pleasing the live-in granny

T’was cute...

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Mountains of moss money lying around the house

Like skinny pillows

You call me baby and sweetie like I'm sticky red candy

Mailbox bursting with your bills, credit...

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Memorial of Candy

My memories of knowing him
So many years ago
As the father of my two oldest children
I’ll remember the thoughts that glow

Though a lot of...

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Well, you’re at the top of the stairs
Completely Sincere
I hear you stop and listen
And you giggle like a dolphin

Stamping bare feet,
Insisting,
Both of us that is,
I...

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Poo Poem



Something baffling I have found
Is that kids will laugh when they hear the sound
Sometimes even the word will do
But nothing is funny about turds...

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smiling is contagious,
you catch it like the flu,
when someone smiled at me,
I started smiling too,
one day, I walked round the corridor corner,
and someone saw my...

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I never knew you ...

Yet you were mine -
   Mine as completely as any other
      That ever drew...

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Here's a good question - What would YOU do
If a plane you were sitting in, travelling to
Some hot sunny beach or a swimming pool blue

Suddenly...

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