Short Toddles Poems

Come to green mother

Naked, willed and wild

Visit the bed of death

Where circles hide

 

Submerse senses in the newborn

Aroma and cinematography

Tease the skin with warm wind

That tumbles and tingles dry

 

Cradle the baby’s breath slowly

As it toddles and cries into a bouquet

Beneath a marbleized sun

On the beauty of a bashful April day...

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Child's Play


Bouncing around on burbled bubbles
Balloons surprising
Tiny fingers
Toddles sweet innocence
Giggling
With delighted glee

Sun shaft alights 
Bright through windows
Lands on the carpet
A golden ball
For wondered excitement
Laughs aloud

And to my amazed eyes
My daughter
Rushed tottering over
Picked up this nonchalant tossed sun pool
And threw the light
Back to the skies...

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Watch your back and turn on the light
Cracked doll face won’t let you out of sight
Baby’s nightmare third party at night
Joining your lullaby holding baby so tight

Cries so loud at the ceiling she stares
Strange clatter I too can clearly hear
No one is there; just me and my sugar
I peeked but no one is on the gable

I can hear my heartbeat as I walk 
Towards the baby God’s help I ask
Stop! Someone toddles at my back
Baby howled as she slowly turns black...

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A young boy toddles with shovel and pail.
His mother watches him fall to the sand.
Laughter erupts on the wind like a sail
blowing his toyboat to a distant land
as water cascades over busy hands.

His pint-sized sandcastle towers above
the boy's imaginative stories of
a king sitting on a fairy tale throne.
The shoreline displays his labor of love
where the sand and ocean are brightly sewn.

By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders
for Sandcastles by the Seashore contest (Gail Doyle)...

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