Saturday, June 26, 2010

Poems from May

Claire
Excited exuberant
jumping about
squealing laughing
spinning round and round
5/15/10


Little Hands Little Feet
Clapping clutching
grabbing snatching
pouring almost empty carton
dribble dribble here,
dribble driblbe there.

Holding hoarding stroking
petting patting
banging blocks together making music
shaking maracas, plucking guitar strings
pushing buttons, buttons, buttons
plucking the buttons off the imac keyboard.
oops.


Painting writing drawing
coloring scribbles as big as a rainbow
making circles, circles, circles... you say "These are eyebrows"
now your fingers are blue and green and red.

Pushing strollers giving doll rides
hugging, give me 5 now--smack
squeezing Bear, Monkey and Dino
touching, touching everything

Open close open close open close
again and again and again.
throwing balls, holding dolls
put them in and take them out
messes messes all about.

Plunge right in with the fingers thinking...
"I must know what soup feels like."
"How would it look all over the tray?"
"Can I use it like finger paint?" "YEP!"

Shredding paper so much fun. Oops
that was sissy's magazine
crinkling plastic library
book covers. Oops again.

Pitter pat
tap tap tap
dancing walking prancing
jump jump jumpity jumping
touching toes
spinning spinning round and round till you
fall down

Bump clack, bump clack, thump clack
you're walking with one shoe on bare floors.
Feeling grass and sand
between your toes
squishing into the mud
ouch the sidewalk is too hot! "Pick me up!"


Noises
Clickety clack clickety clack clickety clack
and you can't come back

plop plop spin a top
clap clap read a map

slam bam wham
tweet squeak skwak
Polly's friends are back

Honk honk
eeoo eeoo eeoo
drip drip drip
need to fix that leaky faucet
rumble rumble
why so many helicopters
over my head tonight?

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