Sandpit Poems - Poems about Sandpit

It ain’t heavy it’s my boulder

...One must imagine Sisyphus’s 
boulder, marble-sized these days
And Ozymandias’ plaque,
spinning despair into praise
Look on, ye hypocrites, 
and sneer at my undoing
Your universe is a giant sand...

Wriggly Worm Nursery Rhyme

...I am digging in my sandpit
and I find a wriggly worm
I take it to show my mummy
you should have seen her squirm!

She does not like creepy crawlies
as they make her feel quite ill
...

Child Within Reunion

...I met my child within, 'Amy'.
We talked, we played, we engaged,
We looked each other's faces 
for expressions.
We looked into each other's eyes
for emotions.
I had a lot to learn from Amy.
I s...

Childlike

...recall your childhood
when you were so unaware of being a child
walking with swinging arms
babbling with chatter box like a brook
unencumbered by opinions, beliefs
unspoiled by graces and airs
...

Garden Tale

...gardens are where we are:

  from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
  from mountain to coast, town to country
  from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
  f...

Lessons From the Sandpit

...Go play in the sandpit was the call from my Mother,
Whenever I was bored.
My first teacher then took over from my Mother,
In repeating those same words of Wisdom.
Thankfully the words had sunk in...

The Tree That Never Was

...Its leave fall on the garden that was never planted,
Its branches tickle the roof that was never painted.

It gives shade to the sandpit that was never christened,
Its roots encroach on  the lawn...

Father Time

...It was one of those splendid mellow golden days 
in early autumn when many trees, though still green,
begin to betray a trace of red or yellow. 

In the afternoon I took little Eleanor to the par...

Emma Rutledge 1876-1914

...Emma Rutledge

1876-1914

Greetings my friends, 

From this forgotten frump,

This long-dead girl who now haunts

This yawning ghost garden here.

In life, my tongue tasted many terrible ...

Three Year Old Thoughts

...I've worked with children all my days,
The things they say sure do amaze.

"How did the baby get in you?
Will it come out with your poo?"

"You'll need much more loo paper than me,
Your bottom...

Fairyland

...There is a rocky path,
small fields on the left
and a mysterious forest on the right,
a fairyland.

Cold creek among the trees
running towards the lake.
A red short wall decorated with nettles...

The Little Tin Soldier

...
In the land of tin men, a little tin soldier he was made
Now painted red and blue in a wooden box he was laid

Was then given to a child, he was happy as could be
Thinking of all the other toys...

Lockpick

...She gives away so little, scraps of
intelligence, barest insights, unconfirmable
though out there I’m sure, waiting for
verification by heart, united futures only.
One could insist on truth, but expe...

Entanglements

...Now listen close to these tangles that we have involved in
As we evolve now, I'm just hoping that i can last longer
If I can program my mind into, as fast as a mind has ever gone before
If I tell mys...

Just Kids

...Remember when we were just kids,
When we shared a bath and a bedroom,
When we used to play outside,
On tinsel-decked scooters we’d zoom.
The back garden with the sandpit and swing,
The slide that gav...

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