Sunday, June 15, 2014

Sleepy Man Arrives to Lull and Rock the Babies to Sleep

Inspired by The Dustman written by Anonymous located in A Children’s Book of Verse, Illustrated by Eric Kincaid, Poems selected by Marjorie Rogers. (Brimax Books)

As the sun orbits the moon comes the man of sleep through shadows of the night

Mirroring eclipses he travels from house to house sprinkling magic dust of sleep in large curious eyes

Watchful eyes watching the lamp reveal little teeth of pleasure as he cooed cooed and said sweet sleep make learning dreams all

Tired from play they fret fret but sleepy man caress each furrowed brow and off they go

A twinkle in mom’s and dad’s eye they know that sleepy man is reliable as clock for tidy widy they sleep tight all night

By

Felicia McCaw



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