Slumbering Princess

a bedtime game I play with Peyton

Slumbering princess with sleepy eyes come dance across the starry skies. Skip a stone into the milky-way and picnic on the moon’s eastern most bay. A kite will we fly, sailing through the night as nearby stars shine so bright. A basket of treats will fill us with smiles, holding treasures so rare for you and for I. While mortals below count sheep overhead we will fish the big dipper catching star-dust for our hair. With Jupiter in place we’ll begin our long journey home and wake with a smile from travels untold. Each night there after we’ll add one more thing till the day you are too old to make believe with me.

Reviews

[M. J. Smith]

You know, there might, I say there just might be a lullaby somewhere in there. Sorry. Couldn't resist the Foghorn Leghorn moment. Sweet words, Cherrie.

[Cherrie]

We have lots of those moments at my house. He is quoted quite often.

[M. J. Smith]

Things things that become family humor ... All too soon, my girl will grow. An adult will stand where a child once stood. She's 14 now.. Cartoons will become a silly hobby as life beckons to her. Enjoy this time while you can.

[Cherrie]

Funny thing is my kids are 30+ and to me they are still 14

[Malone4]

This poem filled me with respect for the wisdom of innocence and its fuel for the imagination. Just Beautiful.

[Cherrie]

Peyton and I played this game till she turned 10. Racing to the 🌙 for a bedtime adventure.

[Malone4]

That is so sweet and may I say a good tactic also.

[William Michael Reeves]

I've been working on a Garland. Kind of inspired by you and your celestial musings. Thought I would see what you've been up to and read this. Starting to think you go around with a halo of celestial bodies orbiting your head. As I read I was trying to figure out the structure of it and thought it was interesting that the structure was in there but you just let it flow around that. And each time I read it it became clearer. I'm curious about the game? Did she give you an idea then you have to wax poetic about it?

[Cherrie]

Matt and I have had Peyton since she was 3. In the beginning she was a wild child that never wanted to sleep. So I made a game out of going to sleep. The faster we went to sleep the quicker we got to play on the moon. She loved it and it became a nightly event.

[William Michael Reeves]

I've been thinking about all the ways we can use poetry and seems like yours is one of the best. Besides helping to settle down at night the poems are also inspiring their imagination and aspirations. Maybe she'll become an astronaut or engineer with words of worlds in her mind. Or maybe the next Amanda Gorman. (Check out her new poem if you haven't. I love the way she turns words back on themselves) Anyways, I keep thinking about how powerful poetry can be!

[Cherrie]

poetry :Mana for the mind :)

[Lorry]

Aww, no fair. I wanna come too :) much better than counting sheeples. Hope zpeyton had happynightnightdreamysleeps. :)

[Cherrie]

We did that every night till she started the 3rd grade. Now and then she wants a night time adventure but not so much anymore.

[Sethnicity]

I appreciate these poems about child rearing so much more now.
Thank you for this heartwarmer.

[Cherrie]

we play a lot of pretend, at bedtime and each night we have to decide where we will go. So now (to her) it is a race on who can go to sleep the fastest, so we can start our trip.

[Kristina]

I love reading anything about the sky and its companions. Something about the stars, moon, planets, and the milk way just draws me in. I like the idea of living among the stars and I really enjoyed this poem!

[Cherrie]

thank you Kristina

[Wórdsmíth]

Beautiful poem .. I enjoyed reading this write.