Children Should Be Seen And Not Heard Poems - Poems about Children Should Be Seen And Not Heard

...I saw her. Yes over there, sitting in that chair. Being seen but not heard. Yes just sitting there with her legs crossed. She couldn’t cry She couldn’t speak She had no face It wasn’t tha......Read the rest...

...Young children should be seen and not heard They frighten their elders with their words Adults insecure Kids wholesome and pure Distinctions between young and old blurred......Read the rest...

...hair Daddy had pulled out the night before. Hidden in the rafters overhead. This child watched siblings fight. It was all we knew, so I hit out too. A refrain we learned well as father said, "Children should be seen and not heard". Voiceless and defenseless were we. This child grew up insecure. Feeling worthless I repeated history. Only this time no bruises seen. Hidden emotional b......Read the rest...

...I used to have to do that thing you know Children should be seen and not heard Know your place your still young Dont you say a word Couldn't understand any of this Yet it became a default of min......Read the rest...

...Momma always told me, "Children should be seen but not heard." 'Til I streaked through her Garden Party And muttered not a word. Momma always told me, "The best birth control is an aspirin hel......Read the rest...

...My Dad often said, "children should be seen and not heard!" So my sister, brother and I would sit before him not saying a word We stare at him and mimic his each and every action Trying to stifle our......Read the rest...

...My dreaming suns tapered into groves Of mandrake plants and roots of cleft shadows, When the bootstrapped heels of tramping dusk Kicked my reveries that they dissolved to dust and husk, Bowling i......Read the rest...