Today, we found sufficient time to play,
To take the time to share the fun kid’s make,
As they so innocently can portray
A break from things we grownups may foresake,
To smile and just be silly for a while,
To hug and just cavort upon a rug,
To pile upon each other with some style,
And mug some funny faces, looking smug.
Oh how delightful, living in the now!
It’s real, how children’s joy can make you feel,
Allowing peals of laughter to endow
A healing tonic touch of such appeal.
So go enjoy them, they so quickly grow,
And show them love. They’re gone before you know.
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Author Notes
This is my son-in law Jeremy, with two of my grandkids, Isaac and Skylah. It is always delightful to watch a parent at play with their children. How infectous the laughs are.
This poem is a Beymorlin Sonnet.
The Beymorlin Sonnet is unique in it's mirrored rhyming. It is structured within the conventional 14 line format of a Sonnet, but it requires the second syllable of each line to rhyme with the end-rhyme of each line, in addition to carrying an overall rhyme scheme of the author's choosing. For this one, I chose:
ababcdcd efef gg.
I bolded the rhymes to make it easier for you to see.
This photograph was taken by my daughter on her cell phone and posted to me in Facebook.
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