Short Bedtime Story Poems

a bedtime story
a story about your love
so my dreams are sweet...

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bedtime story
no worry now
dreamy escape

29-January-2021...

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I loved it
When she walked naked
Into the bedroom
Only wearing
Her hiking boots
Kind of reminded me
Of a children’s
Bedtime story
… Well… sort of...

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There once was an empty life

Then, an interruption,

And the life was full again.

But there is no "happy ever after",

The Interruption

Simply went away,

And the empty life continued.

THE  END...

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He is a monster man, all kinds of greens.
Oranges and yellows even. He glows in the dark.
I thought my eight-year-old was exaggerating.
Could not fathom such a phantom
Until he walked out of her closet
while I was reading her a bedtime story....

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slowly read a bedtime story to yourself,

     hum, to the rhythm of your breathing,

           a nostalgic  lullaby,


whisper soft a happy thought to your mind,

     and soon streams of drowsy dreams 

          will flow so gently by....

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I take in a sunny day is like a tiny season, reading a bedtime story, while tucking the sky, lifting holy cover out of the heaven sky, angels sowed throughout the quilts, a scorch warming beams down, a blazing substantial temperature over the earth's ground.
- Loverboi...

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REAL   MEN

Where does a real man
Wear his dandelion?
In his hair?  Round his neck?
Wherever his three year old 
Daughter wants him to. 

When does a real man
Decide to leave the party early?
Before the big speech?  After the main toast?
When he remembers it’s his turn
To tell her  bedtime story....

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Summer's Bedtime Story

The grande finale
a beautiful painted sky
rich and deep the hues
tucked in by the cool night air
saying "good-night" to the world.

Contest:  Tanka You
Sponsored by:  Francine Roberts
 Jenny Emelander  7/11/11


Placed No. 3 in Francine Robert's " Tanka You" contest-7/16/2011...

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May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life
that have, for us, thus far accrued…
and to begin each day with a word of thanks…
and thoughts of gratitude.

Today I’m thankful for bedtime stories…
and all the miracles they hold within….
because the moment a bedtime story ends
is when a child’s dreams begin....

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Our tummy's full and plates licked clean.
Its time to put away your screens.

Bath time first. 
Brush your teeth.
Pjs on for bedtime please.

choose a book you like to read, mummy listens carefully.
snuggle in, nice and cosy, laughing at the bedtime story.

 The sun has gone, your lamp switched on,  
 ill softly sing our goodnight song.
i look upon your sleeping face, my love for you is everlong.


 

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The bedroom next to mine is yours
On your 3rd birthday I would tuck you in
You would ask me to read you a bedtime story
I would lay with you until you fell asleep.
If you should wake in the night sick 
I would run to help
But...before you could see the world
You slipped & fell
I  never tucked you in, 
I never read you a story.
There is a place in my heart for you 
Baby Brother
Even though I never saw your face....

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In dark alleys the creatures hover
Waiting for you to come their way
And if you do you'll soon discover
Who they consider a meal today!

Tonight's no night to go out and play
The goblins are out and witches too
If you're the one gets in their way
They'll make you into people stew!

So mind me now and go to sleep
The sky is black and it's so late
I don't want to hear another peep
Trick or Treating will have to wait!...

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A calming sound of melodious tunes
With words for every occasion
A getaway trip in the click of a button
When life throws an impossible equation

A medicine to put me to bed
To tell me a bedtime story
Or to tell me their tales
Of defeat and glory

It heals the mind,
Draws out emotions
Changes your mood
Like a magic potion

O how I love music
How it can be a friend
How, for a moment, you can escape 
in a song until it ends...

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Doze off to a world or rather a place
With beautiful colors and demons with no face
Waters of red and valleys of black
Once you step in no turning back
The skies once blue now grey have been turned
From the ash and ruin with everything burned
And still yet you turn to a child face lit with smiles
Though behind her come the demons stretching for miles
And for this one child you must fight from within
For you are now a father and this is the world we live in...

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