My son created a song he sings to his baby son as he holds him "standing" on his chest:
Two feet tall like a tree in the forest
Swaying side to side in the wind
Growing so tall to reach the sun
My baby baby boy
My baby baby bun
The baby dances and lifts his feet as his father sways him. He smiles in absolute delight. When you see it you laugh with joy. It lifts the heart. That is what poetry can do. It expresses the inexpressible. The sing-songy nursery rhymes, the songs for small children are odes to the delight in the world we see in a child's eyes. The wonder. And we feel with our hearts the newness, the brightness of the world again through them. They remind us of the treasure that is this brief life on the planet. My heart is uplifted with this child and his child.
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