Short Daycare Poems

her brave silent soul
struggles to numb numb away
that lonesome~daycare...

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Am I in trouble?

I cry wondering
Eating ants
They smell and taste like
Daycare is
A place where
Adults know
What is best
but don't know
what is happening...

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Am I in trouble?

I cry wondering
eating ants

they smell and taste just like
daycare is

a place where
adults know

what is best but don't know
what is happening?...

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Red flags I predict summer Camp
At war with those daycare children
In open meadows wrestling on the grounds
Playground wars, water filled balloons and dirt and mud clogs thrown
World War Children



12/30/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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Children can be pretty noisy while you’re driving 
As they are in your responsible care.
When you take the bus back to the garage,
After dropping every child at their homes or daycare
Make a thorough sweep over every row ensuring a child has not
Been left behind and make sure everything is secure. 

4/19/2024...

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He called me mom,
he shouldn’t have, as I am not
his mother, nor his grandmother,
aunt, or babysitter.  But I am his 
friend, and he sees me more than
his own mother.  She drops him at our
center at seven a.m. and picks him up
at six p.m. only to take him home to
put hi m to bed.  No wonder
he calls me Mom.




Originally written on paper 1986....

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Little kids who go to bed
Very often wake up dead
Around their necks the blankets wrap;
While they sleep, their necks go, "Snap!"

Wake up choking in the night
Find the blankets tied on tight
Yank and pull the awful noose
Die because you can’t get loose.








From the ongoing series Lucifera's Questionable Daycare Poems & Stories....

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Every day is bring you daughter to work day
When you don't have daycare 
and its the graveyard shift at BigToys

I go to see his cubicle where he made models 
of playgrounds I might get to play on one day
He rescued me and put me in a warehouse

Atop a pile of rubber covered chains he said
I was important, take these chains 
and try to see if they will bend...

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Children fell asleep 

Heavenly the dreams they had-- 


In death's land awoke! 




© Demetrios Trifiatis
    08 October 2022




Last Thursday, at a daycare center in northeastern Thailand, a former police officer killed thirty-seven people of whom twenty-five were young children, some as young as two years of age. 
I dedicate this Senryu to their memory!...

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In the bushes lurked a man
Keeping handy 
Bits of candy
Luring children in the bushes
Where he hit them,
Scratched them, bit them.

If a man hides in the bushes
Don't go near him
If you hear him
In the bushes with a club
He will beat you, 
Cook you, eat you.






This is another unpublished early poem, circa 1969, from the forever-after ongoing series "Lucifera's Questionable Daycare Poems and Stories."...

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God so loVed the world
                   that He gAve His one  
                       and onLy son 
                 that whosoEver 
                   believes iN him shall
                             noT
                            perIsh but 
                   have eterNal
                             LifE.        John 3:16


This is a poem I saw hanging in the daycare at my church.  Happy Valentine's 
day to all....

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