JOSHUA'S MIDNIGHT SONG

His toes are no bigger

Than a kernel of corn

This tiny little stranger

who has just been born 

Scrunched up tight
In the middle of the night

His brother takes one look
and says:
He’s no bigger
than my foot

A mouth puckers up
like a thirsty rose
and wobbles about
beneath his button small nose
Our little stranger sweet
Can you see his tiny feet?

And his brother takes one look
Says: He’s no bigger
than my foot

OH-H-H!
He's a fuzz of taffy hair
and tiny fingers

under there

Do you think that he can squall?
I haven’t heard him yet at all

And EYES –
Just look and see!
They are blinking up at me
Dark and navy blue.
Oh my! Do you suppose
 he snipped them
from the sky?

See him squiggle-squirm up tight
Do you suppose he knows
It’s the middle of the night?

And look.  I tell you.  LOOK!
He IS no bigger than my foot

ABOUT MOONS AND BEDS AND THINGS...

 Hush up! Tiny baby

     Close your big dark eyes

The Nightman's brought his bucket

and painted black the skies

Hush up!  Tiny baby

Put down your fuzzy head

He shakes his Starry Blanket

It's time you were in bed

Hush up! Tiny baby

Don't let me hear a peep

He's hung his big moon lantern

It's time you were asleep