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Pockets

“Why did God make pockets?!” I heard my mother say,

While cleaning out the treasures in my jeans on laundry day.

I thought it kinda silly that my mother couldn’t see,

The reason God made pockets was just for boys like me.

 

 

A boy has got to have a place to keep important stuff,

Like bits of useful string and some dandelion fluff.

Or a feather with a tip so white it’s gotta be an eagle’s!

(Although my brother says he thinks it’s probably a seagull’s).

 

 

A pocket is the spot to keep the T-Rex bones I found,

When digging up the earthworms that were sleeping underground.

Someday I’ll be famous in the world of explorations,

Because of all things I found on my backyard excavations.

 

 

Once I found a diamond with a pretty yellow gleam,

And a fuzzy caterpillar that made my sister scream.

Then I caught a bumblebee that only had one wing,

If only I had known he hadn’t also lost his sting!

 

 

Every rock I find is different so I have to keep them all,

Along with all the leaves that turn so pretty in the fall.

And just in case I forget one thing or the other,

I stick it in my pocket so I can show my mother.

 

 

Why did God make pockets?  My mother likes to say,

When she turns out my pockets and something crawls away.

So why did God make pockets?  I think it’s plain to see,

The reason God made pockets was just for boys like me.

Fiction, Kids, Poetry 2 Comments

I believe you can find grace for the mother you are and help to become the mother you long to be—a mom who has the freedom to choose the better things and enjoy her kids right now.

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