Children’s Poetry

Children’s Book

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All Creatures Mostly Small is a collection of thirty-two children’s poems, each paired with a Bible verse and a simple lesson for young readers. Side by side with the poems and lessons are 85 pages filled with colorful illustrations and photos that kids will love. In between the two sections of the book is included a list of fun projects for the family, including a trip to the zoo, building a birdhouse or going to the nature center. The cover photograph is of our wonderful grandson Wyatt, for whom these lessons were originally written, and our prayer is that you will enjoy discovering that somewhere between the funny rhymes and challenging projects, that better reading and a closer walk with Jesus might just happen along the way!

All Creatures Mostly Small is available on Amazon in either print or digital form. For the print version you can follow this link.

Wyatt with His big sister
Madeline at a science fair

Making Time for Kindness

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God asks us to make time for kindness
No hurried decision or worried collision
Is worth overlooking a friend 

So, when we run late for appointments
And we ‘re making a fuss about those around us
We are missing the chance just to spend

A lifetime of sharing and listening
To stories and tears and the sorrows and fears
Of those He loved right to the end

 Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble.
Philippians 4:14

Making Time for Kindness
by Peter Caligiuri
Copyright © 2024 All rights reserved

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
 Mother Teresa

Sweet Simple Blessings

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While working with one of our in-laws to revise the home school composition and poetry book which we released last year, I stumbled across this poem from a few years ago. With all of the craziness in the news and modern life in general, it helps to take a step back, just breathe and remember that God is in control. He knows and has designed our every moment and I love how Jesus reminds us of this by asking the simple question:

Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?  Matthew 6:27 NIV
Hearing the song
That the Mockingbird sings
And seeing the colors
As the Bluebird takes wing

And catching the fragrance
That the Hummingbirds seek
In the flowers that grow
By the side of the creek

And all of those moments
That are finest of fine
Are the sweet simple blessings
That Our Father designed

Sweet Simple Blessings
By Peter Caligiuri
Copyright © 2022 All rights reserved

I paired today's poem with a lullaby I wrote many years ago when our children were small. The first verse comes from an older children's poem by Rose Fyleman, to which I added to more verses and a chorus. I do hope that it's gentle melody will be a blessing for you. Though I have this under copyright, please feel free to use it with your own friends and family, if you like it.