Open Poetry #30 |
Children's Verse |
Astro Member
since 2003-01-08
Posts 69Ca. |
Children’s Verse Daddy let me use plastics for play-time! Tonka trucks stuck With Play-Doh in the tire well But I can make them fly With just a twist of my wrist. Wow! How things go so quickly -- Toys, I mean. Time is different. It takes 24 months to make one Christmas And I have a lot to go. Daddy let me use plastics for play-time. Maybe I can use wood. Brother graduated; maybe I should! I’ve seen the tool shed, Surrounded in metal sheets, A retreat for grown-up arts And crafts to be explored. Electric sanders, circular saws, Lumber and steel. I think I’ll use the hammer and nail. I found tools for play-time! Thwack! Goes the chime of my labor. A nail here, some wood there My art is a hazard of random objects. I saw Daddy once use core-gated tin For roof-stuff. I can use it again. Now I have a house for dolls to live in. They found my art from play-time! They’re shouting and throwing their hands. Flashes and microphone vans Record my every notion. They call me genius and In a flurry of paper motion, my toys Are taken away – placed in another home. There’s yelling for more And I mourn the work of my hands. I’m in such high demand. Wood feels rough to me and I’m not old enough For the sander. Where did I go wrong? It’s amazing how things go so quickly. My toys were never meant for living. They took them away and asked for more. I never meant them for living. Sight is an always awful beginning |
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GG Member Elite
since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532Lost in thought |
wow this had me just reading along and enjoying and then cought me and made me realise the true painful irony of it! ...I wanna just go back to playing again, its so unfamiliar now. This is great. Always, Alyssa He was a man of sorrows |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
What an awesome read. So much here... in fact, I'm placing it in my library to read later... Well done! |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Astro, Well done, enjoyed. |
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