A Panegyric on the Nativity
Babies are cool
In spite of the drool
And inordinate stool.
Babies are cool.
Babies are fat
And better for that,
To pinch and poke at.
Babies are fat.
Babies are silly:
Wailing willy-nilly
(Their drawers are frilly).
Babies are silly.
Babies are slobbery—
Which allows them robbery
Of hearts all throbbery.
Babies are slobbery.
Babies are odorous,
Their pants malodorous,
And changing them? Onerous.
Babies are odorous.
Mothers are sweet,
Kissing infant feet,
Nesting on a loveseat.
Mothers are sweet.
Moms with their tots?
Like angels. Apricots
Are not sweeter. Please: lots
More moms with tots.
Moms are sweetcool.
(I’d be their feetstool
They teach such a sweet school)
Moms are sweetcool.
A tot was born cool
One evening, one Yule—
When the ghoul and the fool
Were made miniscule—
When Mom (born cherrysweet)
Kissed infant feet
In winter sleet
(The baby born cool,
One evening, one Yule).
Clark Morrow is a published poet and essayist, as well as a professional award-winning actor and radio personality. His latest nonfiction book is Moral Majesty, Spiritual Splendor, published in 2021 by Wipf & Stock Publishers of Eugene Oregon, USA. He is a national speaker on youth-related issues.
nice – here’s our daughter’s analogous infant song:
What makes babies smell so subtle?
what makes babies smell so sweet?
Weebies, weebies, weebies, weebies,
smell like some delicious treat.
How much does your Daddy love you?
what can babies do with that?
Love from daddies never made a
baby milky, full or fat.
How much does your Mommy love you?
babies all can do with that.
Love from Mommy makes a baby
happy, milky, full, and fat.
summer 1986.
Very sweet and entertaining.
That was great, Clark. So imaginative, and with so little leeway per line.
My favourite stanza is the ‘odorous’ one – which probably says a lot about me.
Thanks for the read.
I loved your sweet baby poem Clark. Babies smell absolutely delicious…. until they don’t!
Cool rhymes, Clark, working through everything about babies all the way to the most miraculous birth.