Threadbare Ted Threadbare Ted of many years, Sent wherever fortune steers, To a basket of arms, be plucked and curled, The lead subject of stories told and twirled. A simple wish: to be held skewiff, At an angle that would scare most stiff While jostled, tumbled, dragged straight through Mud, and dust, and water too. Yet never once did Teddy grumble: Along each pathway he’d be trundled, For while his stitched-up heart still beat, The world was wide, and life was sweet. #poetry #childrenspoetry #kidspoems #teddybear #stuffedtoys #childhoodmemories #nostalgicwriting #rhymingpoem #shortstory #creativewriting #parenting #bedtimestories #familylife #nurseryrhymes #kidslit