Child -
Lovely,
Innocent;
Few needs, no cares;
Sucks milk…else fingers, wiggles the limbs, yawns;
Sleeps, dreams, smiles, coos, croons, whines, wheezes, starts, cries;
Ploughs with the nails,
Pulls a face;
Hard work,
Wow!
[Sep 23,2009: : Greenfield, Wisconsin]
AtreyaSarma Uppaluri
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/child-double-tetractys/