Toddled Poems - Poems about Toddled

TODDLER DANCE

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The other night at work I had mellow ’60’s music playing in the store
when a couple carrying their young son entered through the door.

Guessing someone’s age the more I age is harder and harder...

A Discovery - more wondrous than all others

...Within each intricacy
And delicacy
This shell's, this snow crystal's
This web's, as lovely

His thought process; first worked through;
Traced back now by you.
Playful child's, for a creator!
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Growing Up

...Your tumbling forth was a joy.
None asked, then, you're a girl of a boy;
We never cried when you cried.
Rather, each one had a smile of pride.
You cried when you felt hungry.
You cried for all a...

Out My Window

...It was hours before dawn and I could not sleep.
The gloomy fog overpowered the cold dark street.
The street lights offered patches of misty light.
Rain had glossed the pavement, in the dead of nig...

If I Was Heading To the Seventies

...Where are you going? I wondered as they toddled by.
They were dressed in hippie costumes, and I wondered why.
They are heading to nineteen seventy, another said.
I loved this and kept it alive all...

A Christmas Tale

...A variation on a theme by Dr. Seuss...

There once was a Grinch who was bad to the bone,
Which was why he always spent Christmas alone,
But one year the Grinch said, "Enough is enough!"
And deci...

In Black and White

...One of the reasons I like walking in the morning…with only the moon and stars for light
is how a world of daytime color is reduced to black and white.

It’s when the jumbled clamor of daytime soun...

Almost Never Was

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“She toddled in the mighty Duck
And almost never was”
Whether by design or luck
Or maybe just because

Summertime in Tennessee
So scorching hot and dry 
 The family thought a swim...

Higher Education

...The fancy degree from a world famous school
set in a frame that’s worth more
than the paper on which it’s printed
all the awards
the accolades
none of it has taught you
the lessons I learned lo...

Angela

...Angela is our oldest, she was the prettiest baby imaginable
Her large blue eyes from her Daddy’s side of the family, spoke volumes.
She had a gorgeous face and curls that danced when she toddled.
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Snake Oil Justice

...Carson Elkund moved slowly through the town,
his eyes darted about, looking around,
looking for trouble he knew was out there,
he was wanted by many, and moved with care.

He had bounties aplent...

Off Colour Songs

...Once knew this old man named Gus
For some reason the girlies made a fuss
As he toddled along
Singing off-colour songs
Much too off-colour for us to discuss...

Reversal Universal

...The body has a different relationship 
with space now.

Disrespectful of distance before,    
it now moves with a new sobriety,
motion slowed by a deliberation 
barely perceptible,
as if, with...

When Is a Bookstore Not a Bookstore

...When is a bookstore not a bookstore…certainly we have books galore…
but I think that sometimes it all depends on who comes in the store.

Some people come in for the air-conditioning…some to get o...

Hinged

...Hinged

I flew across the border, with my wings spread wide
Fear, tear and blood - was all I saw.
A little one of four
clenched her fist,
she held a flower her mother kissed.
There was anger i...

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