Kids

[Icingsugar]

This is a poem that Christine, my seven years old god-daughter wrote the other day.
(Translation to English for reading convenience by yours truly. It even lended itself to keep the rhyme.)


To live in the city is like sea and land;
where some things can grow, other things will die.

As sure as my floor is somebody's roof;
the truth for you and me is someone else's lie.


I say no more.

/Ice

 

[Angeline]

kids can write amazing poetry. i think it's so much easier for them to just let their imagination go and at the same time be more nakedly truthful than adults.

that poem is better than most stuff i see posted here--that's for sure.

my 11-yo child's comment on the "barbie-ken breakup" was similarly insightful--and funny (totally inadvertantly of course) on so many levels I have been snickering all day. she said--

i guess she'll just find a new plastic man

 

[Angeline]

p.s. and a poem for my son--

My Boy

that boy i love
snorts when he laughs
sometimes hiccups

he calls me names

he can call me anything
he wants

because that boy
i love

can do anything

he can memorize
the periodic table
write poems
about clog-dancing kings
knights of square tables
and backward empires

and drink more
coca cola
than god

that boy i love
cried when his fish died

and once

in a tiny voice
asked me if numbers
neverending
means the same as infinity

I didn't mind when
he broke his leg

or got the dog bite
or even when I
almost lost my job

staying home with him
because he almost
lost his eye

he is taller than me
now
he just started shaving

but

i'm still in charge so
i say

he can do anything

except

be a soldier.

 

[WickedEve]

kids can write amazing poetry. i think it's so much easier for them to just let their imagination go and at the same time be more nakedly truthful than adults.

that poem is better than most stuff i see posted here--that's for sure.

my 11-yo child's comment on the "barbie-ken breakup" was similarly insightful--and funny (totally inadvertantly of course) on so many levels I have been snickering all day. she said--

i guess she'll just find a new plastic man

My six year-old recently learned about presidents. She informed me that because Lincoln was shot that they made a statue of him, and that you have to get shot before anyone will make a statue for you. Then she said that George W. W. Bush is the president. She asked me if that was really true.

 

[HomerPindar]

i guess she'll just find a new plastic man

That's a great opening line if ever I heard one.... I have to get caught up on school so I can write some poetry

And Eve, no, he is not the President. But, if you want me to get started I'll have to switch to the Bitch thread

/Ice, extend my compliments to the poet, well done.

HomerPindar