Poetry and Sayings

Children

Baby:

• A baby will make love stronger, days longer, nights shorter, bankroll smaller,
  home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.



• A new life begun,
  Like father, like son.
  Like one, like the other,
  Like daughter, like mother.



• Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever
  to have your heart go walking around outside your body.



• When a child is born, so is a grandmother.



• A baby girl...
  one of the most beautiful miracles in life,
  one of the greatest joys we can ever know,
  and one of the reasons why
  there is a little extra sunshine, laughter and happiness
  in your world today.
  
  
• May your darling little son bring you so much joy
  That you'll always bless the day they said, "Congratulations, it's a boy!"

Daughter:

• For your little girl's tea party photos:
  It feels so good to have a friend
  On whom you can depend.
  To play with carefree, schoolgirl glee,
  And share a quiet cup of tea.
  
  The Tea Party
  (For a little girl having a little tea party all by herself.)
  I had a little tea party
  One afternoon at three
  T'was very small
  Just I, myself, and me.
  
  Myself ate up the sandwiches
  While I drank up the tea
  T'was also I who ate the pie
  And passed the cake to me.



• A poem for a graduating daughter
  Young woman, my daughter,
  my joy and my heart,
  You've reached the end
  only to find a new start.
  
  The world sees the young woman
  with her charm and her smile,
  but behind the woman,
  I will always see the child.



• Turn Around
  Where are you goin' my little one, little one?
  Where are you goin' my baby my own?
  Turn around and you're two
  Turn around and you're four
  Turn around and you're a young girl
  Going out of the door
  
  Where are you going' my little one, little one?
  Little dirndles and petticoats, where have you gone?
  Turn around and you're tiny
  Turn around and you're grown
  Turn around and you're a young wife
  With babes of your own.

Son:

• My Son
  Hold him a little longer,
  Rock him a little more.
  Tell him another story
  (You've only told him four).
  Let him sleep on your shoulder,
  Rejoice in his happy smile.
  He is only two and a half
  For such a little while.
  



• Our Son
  There's nothing like the blessing
  Of a little baby boy
  To fill your home with sunshine
  And fill your heart with joy.
  With hugs and bugs and footballs,
  Baseballs, toys and grins,
  You'll cherish all the memories
  That you will share with him.
  Take the time to walk and talk,
  To share his dreams and plans.
  All too soon your little boy
  Will grow to be a man.
            Kelly Martin
  
  
• You don't raise heros, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons,
  they'll turn out to be heros, even if it's just in your own eyes.

Brothers:

• Life gave me a brother
  To teach me about life
  He loves and aggravates me
  And gives me strength and strife.
  
  Thank goodness for little brothers
  They are special as can be
  Don't mess with my little brother
  Or you'll have to deal with me.
  
  
• Billy and Susie are siblings and friends. (Change to whatever names you need.)
  When they get together, the fun never ends.
  Of course, there are times when they both disagree
  And that's when Mom steps in to play referee.
  But laughing and playing take up most of their time,
  And this, as they say, is the end of my rhyme.
       Michelle Gregory

Sisters:

• Here's to my sister-
  Remember everyday,
  No matter what I've said
  Here's what I want to say
  I will always love you
  Be with you to the end
  When no one else is around
  I will be your friend.
  
  I love my sister
  And I always will
  I'm proud to be your brother
  That's how I feel
  And someday when you're far away
  And the miles keep us apart
  I'm gonna whisper I love my sister
  And pray you'll hear it in your heart.
  
  

Twins:

• Twice Blessed
  Two faces to wash
  And four dirty hands;
  Two insistent voices
  Making demands.
  
  Twice as much crying
  When things go wrong;
  Then four eyes closing
  With slumber song.
  
  Twice as many garments
  Blowing on the line.
  Two cherubs in the go cart,
  Soaking up sunshine.
  
  Work I do for twins
  Naturally comes double,
  But four arms to hug me
  Repay all my trouble.
       Azalete Bolger Wells



• Twins - Like two peas in a pod, two gifts from God.

Lullabies:

• Lullaby and Goodnight
  Lullaby and good night,
  With roses delight,
  With lilies bespread
  In baby's wee bed.
  Lay thee down now and rest,
  May thy slumber be blessed.
  Lay thee down and rest,
  May thy slumber be blessed.
  
  
• All Through the Night
  Sleep my child and peace attend thee,
  All through the night.
  Guardian angels God will send thee,
  All through the night.
  Soft the drowsy hours are creeping,
  Hill and vale in slumber sleeping
  I my loving vigil keeping,
  All through the night.
  
  
  
• Goodnight, Little People
  
  The evening is coming,
  The sun sinks to rest,
  The rooks are all flying
  Straight home to their nest;
  "Caw, caw," says the rook
  As he flies over head,
  "It's time little people
  Were going to bed."
  
  The flowers are all closing,
  The daisy's asleep,
  The primrose is buried
  In slumber so deep;
  And shut for the night
  Is the pimpernel red,
  "It's time little people
  Were going to bed."
  
  The butterfly drowsy
  Has folded its wings,
  The bees are returning,
  No more the bird sings;
  Their labor is over,
  Their nestlings are fed,
  "It's time little people
  Were going to bed."
  
  Good-night, little people,
  Good-night and good-night,
  Sweet dreams to your eyelids
  Till dawning of light.
  The evening has come,
  There's no more to be said,
  "It's time little people
  Were going to bed."
  
  

Miscellaneous:

• My Handprints
  
  My gift you see,
  Is part of me,
  That I want to share with you.
  
  So when I'm old,
  You won't need to be told,
  Of the days when I was two.
  


• Apple Pie
  
  Oh Lord, make me a child again,
  For one Sunday afternoon.
  Let me sit at my mother's table,
  On a summer's day in June.
  
  Let me smell once more the sizzling roast,
  Let me see it with my eye.
  Let me taste again the sheer delight
  Of Mom's homemade apple pie.
            Bob Ollier



• Happy hearts and happy faces,
  Happy play in grassy places.
  
  
• A rose can say "I Love You",
  Orchids can enthrall,
  But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist
  Oh my, that says it all.
  
  
• If only we knew, as we later do
  That these years are the best.
  If only we knew, as we later do
  Our childhood years are blessed.
            Bob Ollier



• How Do I Love You?
  How do I love you?
  Let me count the ways;
  I love you on your very best
  And very worst of days.
  
  I love to see you laughing
  And dancing in the rain,
  And even if you make a mess
  I love you just the same.
  
  I love to hear you sing,
  I love to see you smile,
  I love the way you take each day
  In your own unhurried style.
  
  I'm happy when you're happy
  I'm sorry when you're sad
  And even though it may not show
  I love you when you're bad.
  
  I love to watch you sleeping
  Tucked away in dreams
  I love to hear you whisper
  All your future hopes and dreams.
  
  I love to watch you play
  And all your silly ways
  I'm sure you'll never know
  How much I love you more each day.
  
  How do I love you?
  It's impossible to say;
  For if I had a million days
  And time enough for all the praise
  I couldn't tell you all the ways
  I love you.
  
  
• From small beginnings come great things.



• We never know the love of our parents for us until we become parents.



• Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.



• Children are God's way of telling you tomorrow is beautiful.



• Happy hearts and happy faces,
  Happy play in grassy places,
  That was how, in ancient ages,
  Children grew to kings and sages.



• The laughter of a child is the light of a house.



• Children look at the world with their perfect little hearts.



• What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.



• Childhood will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then suddenly they disappear.



• My children are in two places --on my nerves and in my heart.



• Believe in children. There is faith in their eyes, love in their eyes, love in their touch, kindness in their gestures. Thrill with them at life's big and small moments...hold them close.



• Mothers, touch your children,
  Fathers, hug them tight,
  Let them know you love them
  Morning, noon, and night.



• When the voices of children
  Are heard on the green
  And laughing is heard on the hill,
  My heart is at rest within my breast
  And everything else is still.



• Walking
  Walking walking walking walking,
  Seems so easy now,
  But I remember when I was small,
  And I did not know how.
  
  I would take two steps and then fall down,
  And bump my bottom on the ground,
  My dad would say, "That's okay,"
  "Try some more another day."
  
  I would take two steps and then two more,
  And fall down on the kitchen floor,
  But up I'd stand, dust my hands,
  And tell myself I know I can.
  
  
• Fingerprints
  Sometimes you get discouraged
  Because I am so small
  And always leave my fingerprints
  On furniture and walls
  But every day I'm growing
  I'll be grown up some day
  And all those tiny handprints
  Will surely fade away
  So here's a final handprint
  Just so you can recall
  Exactly how my fingers looked
  When I was very small.
  
  
• Patience
  Give me patience when little hands,
  Tug at me with small demands,
  Give me gentle words and smiling eyes
  And keep my lips from sharp replies,
  So in years to come when my house is still
  Beautiful memories it's rooms may fill.

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