Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Children

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, 

and it is tiresome for children to be always 

and forever explaining things to them” 
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Midweek Motif ~ Children


Poems ABOUT children ~ NOT poems for children. 

I didn't mean to shout.  In the USA, Mothers Day is 5/11 and Fathers Day is next month, and so we naturally think about children ~ our own or other people's.  And each of us was a child once, a child we learn to cherish regardless of our histories.  Or not. Today's motif is CHILDREN: around us, in the past, in the news, in literature, visible and invisible.

Lichtenstein postcard

On the Seashore

BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances.

They build their houses with sand, and they play with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play on the seashore of worlds. . . . 

     (Read the rest at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174939)

Nursing You by Erica Jong

    On the first night
of the full moon,
the primeval sack of ocean
broke,
& I gave birth to you
little woman,
little carrot top,
little turned-up nose,
pushing you out of myself
as my mother
pushed
me out of herself,
as her mother did,
& her mother's mother before her,
all of us born
of woman.
. . . . 

(Read the rest at:  http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/erica_jong/poems/2855.html )

For more inspiration, see the POEM SAMPLER

Poems about Children and Parenting

Poems on the joys of parenting babies, toddlers, and teenagers.

at The Poetry Foundation

Please:  

1.      Post your poem about Children on your site, and then link it here.

2.      Share only original and new work written for this challenge. 

3.      Leave a comment here.

4.      Honor our community by visiting and commenting on others' poems.

(The next Midweek Motif is Bicycles)

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