Short Tike Poems

My fondest memory as a wee one
A photo of me in my snowsuit, cute as a bunny
Maybe I was three
In my mind still can see
A wee tike, the day was Tuesday and sunny...

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Sweet ladybugs are not so ladylike
When frightened by oldster or a young tike
Squirting yellow liquid that tastes horrible and stinks
Putrid smelling, worse than corpses of six rotting minks....

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Was told my dog Rover chased someone on a bike
Can't be true, he hasn't ridden a bike since he was a tike
People causing trouble
Makes em unloveable
Did you ever think it could be a Rover lookalike...

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He was an adorable little tike.
I am not sure which was sweeter– his face or the flowers
As he made a little path the flowers began to dance.
He stopped to touch many of them.
His giggles made the garden come alive....

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Biddity, bobbity, boo... this tune's hanging round in my psyche
A hit when I was a wee tike running around in my nightie
How old was I?
Allow me to clarify
The Second World War hadn't begun and Mickey Mouse was almighty...

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Hans tried this save as a tike -
Episodic finger in the Holland-days dike.
Not afraid to swim.
See-through stranger didn’t spook him.

Friendly Casper scared the boo out of all, 
Spared the scaredy-cats with a window y’all.
They see through the glass magnified fishes.
The aquarium, a dutch treat for all their wishes.

8/30/2021
not for contest

Casper the Friendly Ghost episode: Dutch Treat...

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Lee rides a silver fish all day long was the report.
We call him Silver, and he is a good sport.
What is a silver fish? I asked my friend Tike.
Not sure, he answered, but it looks like a bike.

Silver Fish is a customized contraption made by Lee
He must purchase a car though, if he wants to date me.
I am not fond of pedaling, I have a bad right knee.
So, Silver and I decided to never a couple be....

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Gnarly had the best job of all in the sugar dome.
He was the secret rainbow color dropping gnome.
He came in the night, riding the color on his bike.
The only ones who could see him were the age of a tike.

“Look at the sandman!” the toddlers reported.
The parents studied the sky until their necks were contorted.
But children grow older, and after the age of two.
They forget what they saw, for it is what children do....

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I got a mountain bike 
it sits on my side porch
it sits under a torch 
it should go on  a hike 

I got free beans from Mike 
There’s three beans in my  jeans 
That I’ve had since my teens
or since I was a tike 

bought a psych trip to Wyke
I didn’t take my beans
left them on the side porch 
all alone with the bike  

Bike & Beans
Lyricists Inc. 
D.A.P. / Digital Analog Productions
written: 09-30-2022 
David A. Porter...

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Daddy Mike,
What were you like?
You were gone 
when I was a very tiny tike.
 
Daddy Mike,
Was it because of me? 
Was leaving me all you could see?
Surely, you knew how much pain there would be.
A little girl needs her daddy.
 
Daddy Mike,
From abuse and pain
I shed many a tear.
Without you here,
I always felt fear.
 
Daddy Mike,
Abusive babysitter, playmate,
bullies, and family.
Nowhere for me 
to flee.
 
Daddy Mike,
Why were you 
not here?...

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