Long Smilingly Poems

Poems about Children II



On Looking into Curious George’s Mirrors
by Michael R. Burch

for Maya McManmon, granddaughter of the poet Jim McManmon

Maya was made in the image of God;
may the reflections she sees in those curious mirrors
always...

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It was late in gorgeous springtime, and I was teaching my class,
A lesson in African history, and the events of time's hourglass.

My fourth graders were very attentive, as I recounted the glory,
Of tales such as...

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Children's Poems IV

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



Boundless
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

Every day we whittle away at the essential solidity of him,
and...

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Just see
How fearlessly
Sunshine is seated
On the  gravestone

And the caring breeze
Whispering to the loneliness
So absolute
Beneath the tombstone

A paleolithic stone
A meaningless silence
Guarding utterly alone
The desiccating non-existence

Here lies she
Neither sad nor happy
Decaying gingerly
Enriching the earth

Are all doors...

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When a class is boring, the air can feel close and rebreathed - not a comfortable feeling for a COVID child. When the class is finally over, it’s like you’ve escaped something.

Did you know an...

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Turbulant radient red sky with sheet swirl mashed potato
cloud mush peered lazily through a curious brown
haze of dirty armpit fizz, enlisted somewhere
bewteen a prebeginning solar start dot deposit burst peak
and a futuristic nuclear waste singulsr...

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(Even if) Everyone
will get away with
their deed
Your deed will not
remain impunished
You had better
remember that 

If every day were a
feast
And you blossomed
four times a year 
You will wither, too
You had better
remember that!

Everyone's loss is
one by one
The...

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Into your arms, we raise our lovely children lost!
The innocent ones, that we raised and you created...
Killed by a soul-less madman,may his judgement 
be swift!

Forgive us, for we are horrendous killers, too!
We the conscience-less, we...

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(Meaning Congratulation)

Mom, see this is my prize, the Golden
trophy; timing record I've broken
while reaching first in the sports event
of 'The Half Marathon race'; it meant
one to cover 21.1 km distance with no stop.

Smilingly, with tears...

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As I walked in the rains
I saw people with umbrellas and raincoats
People trying to be protected from rains
While the innocent kids enjoyed paper boats

As I saw the kids smiling at their drowning boats
For a moment,...

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Adding many components to a stew today? Flavours? Chopped out pieces? How many pieces? Go on how many? It is never the question of how many components that are within the granules that will decide...

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They both know what they want
Yet cannot let go of what they have
Stolen kisses and coffee in a car
Before they part their separate ways

This is how the lovers would meet, cosy café, dark alley or...

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The last strains of decrescendo were still in my ears
Dancing at the masque party time flew leisurely on downy feathers
The night was still youthful, the breath enjoying every fragrant inhale
The last strains of the decrescendo...

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People surround until they stop expecting……...the upright stands alone…an intelligent walks alone……moral and ethics struggle to prove themselves right……friends and relatives are born disguised competitors…smiling faces burn inside……money is all that allures, attracts, builds and...

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Tough my days,
Rough my nights,
But I shall not demand, 
Chirping of birds going home in the evening,
Neither the cold and placid Breeze in the morning,
With all the odds in my life for this very day,
I...

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"O Yellow Lily! You smilingly bloom
   Early in the morning in my terrace garden,
In a jiffy, you take away all gloom,
   Tell me, in front of you, can any heart harden?"
"O...

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Do you like to see the girl singing
Come with me in the swing
Calling us the happy spring
Seated in the fragrantly blooming
Flowers in the cool morning

The falls sparklingly bubbling
The breeze soothingly cuddling
The rivers gurgling and brimming
The...

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                        11/28/2023


Let’s be fools and pretend this planet won’t implode.
Beneath a mosaic...

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Today my fellow Christians 
Today we have a need to pay
To pave the way for Godly deeds
I offer this contest today

Three hymns you may choose
To whom may ever give the most
Of dollars which are in...

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Whether the shadow of your face
Or the stripes of grace on the leaves
Whether the water and soil
In turmoil to sprout and  bloom out
Releasing the stress of the bones
Into the cones of the buds
All I...

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Oh where could one sweet person go
          Who craves a phrase to ebb and flow
           ...

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Ironed Shadows
                by Odin Roark

Her hands lay smooth
the coveralls worn thin
now wrinkled
once charged with earth

Mended armor from
courageous prices paid
embossed with...

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O Little angel O little angel
from tranquil galaxy of rebirth
coming through milky sky ways
to land on the human earth

singing merry Christmas songs
with basket of wonderful toys
some for her innocent girls
and some for naughty boys

with divine...

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Twin Palms

In a pensive mood I walked downhill
Reflecting on the disappearing years
Wondering how many more autumns left 
To enjoy the golden sun on his way home
Down the flaming hill-side.
I spread out my palm to catch...

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Ironed Shadows

Her hands lay smooth
the coveralls worn thin
now wrinkled
once charged with earth

Mended armor from
courageous prices paid
embossed with crosshatched mending
stands raised in triumph

A home plate remembered
by innocence long abandoned
players made humble from
a boy's first slide for...

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