Poem: My Teddy Bear
Children's Poem from a Child's Point of View
I’d like you to meet Jake. He’s my forever friend —I can’t ever remember a day Jake didn’t live with me. He knows all my secrets and every heartache and happiness I’ve ever felt, I’ve shared with Jake. He will always have a place in my heart and on my bed …
Hugs,
CJ
My Teddy Bear
by C.J. Heck
My teddy bear was growing old.
I showed him to my dad.
The threads that made his mouth were gone.
My teddy bear looked so sad.
His round dark eyes were crooked.
His button nose hung down.
It made me sad to look at him,
my teddy bear, soft and brown.
A jagged hole showed stuffing
poking through along one side
and I had to hug him gently
so it wouldn't grow more wide.
When Dad showed him to Mama,
she fixed him up like new.
His button nose was tight again
and his mouth was smiling, too.
His eyes were side by side again,
just like they used to be,
and when I sat and talked to him,
he looked right back at me.
She pushed the stuffing in again,
then sewed the hole with thread,
and when I went to sleep last night,
he was with me on my bed.
You know that someone loves you
by the little things they do.
Sometimes, it means much more
than even saying, "I love you."
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[from the book, “Barking Spiders 2”, children’s poetry from a child’s point of view, by C.J. Heck]
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Beautiful work, C.J. I also had a teddy bear, but it got lost haha. I still miss it (:.
Lovely. I still have my two teddy bears. I used to cry when my mother washed them and hung them on the clothesline by their ears.🤣. They are currently looking at me as I sit in bed and type this. They are still in their knitted clothes that 'Aunty Julie' made for them.💜