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i love you, your babyness
your royally muskiness, duskiness
your secret dreaminess, schemingness
i love you, your babyness
i love you, your babyness
your curled in your velvety wrinkledness
your breath snorting runtiness, gruntiness
i love you, your babyness
i love you, your babyness
your yawn smelling milkily flavoredness
your sighing in shuddery shakiness
i love you, your babyness
i love you, your babyness
your legs jerking spasmod in spaciness
your fists flailing wildly, like craziness
i love you, your babyness
i love you, your babyness
your head gravely bobbing its braveliness
your bright eyes searching widely the vacantness
i love you, your babyness
i love you, your babyness
you've tied up my heartstrings to stayfulness
you've captured this castle in playfulness
i love you, your babyness
First shared on a nursery wall somewhere in Wisconsin.
Used here with the author’s permission.
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Phyllis Beckman begins her days with a candle, coffee, and Your Daily Poem. A lover of trees, she rues the loss of three ash trees from her Onalaska, Wisconsin corner lot to the emerald ash borer currently sweeping the area and is anticipating welcoming a replacement this summer. Phyllis says the "Driftless Area" is a beautiful setting for writing poetry and she credits the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and Women Writers Ink for keeping her on task.
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JanetruthMartin:
LOVE this SO much. Hoping to become a Grandma in approx. 4 mos.!
Your poem inspired a poem I call Our Mother-ness.
http://anotherporch.blogspot.ca/2016/08/our-mother-ness.html
Posted 08/21/2016 07:03 PM
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transitions:
Wonderful poem, wonderful babyness, enjoyed it immensely ~
Posted 08/21/2016 05:24 PM
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Jo:
Terrific poem, Phyllis.
Posted 08/21/2016 11:47 AM
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Lori Levy:
Captures the delight of a new baby!
Posted 08/21/2016 10:59 AM
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KevinArnold:
Those little creatures seem to come straight from God.
Posted 08/21/2016 09:53 AM
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fer:
Love it, Phyllis! Brings back such sweet memories. Congratulations, Jayne, on your first grandchild -- there's nothing quite like it. Savor every minute....
Posted 08/21/2016 09:43 AM
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Larry Schug:
I don't usually go for poems about babies or a poet's children, but I have to say I love this poem. So much fun to read aloud. It's a keeper.
Posted 08/21/2016 07:41 AM
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Janet Leahy:
My neighbors have a new granddaughter, I will give them this poem, it is lovely.
Posted 08/21/2016 07:39 AM
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vscholtz:
Hello Phyllis - Didn't realize some I met at the last WFOP would show up on Your Daily Poem. And what a delight your verses are. I'm going to send this to my niece- her second baby will arrive soon. Ginny Scholtz
Posted 08/21/2016 07:01 AM
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Newf:
I begin most of my days with a coffee and Your Daily Poem. Maybe I'll light a candle too, it's a thought. Phyllis, your poem is just a delight. To be read and reread by anyone who has ever watched a baby. I don't know when I've ever enjoyed anything more. A sincere thank you to you and Jayne.☕ï¸
Posted 08/21/2016 03:48 AM
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