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Boys and Girls

A collection of charming poems by James W. Foley, Poet Laureate of North Dakota where he was also city editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Each poem is written from the point of view of children or about children. (Summary by Larry Wilson)

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Away (Larry Wilson)
The Reciprocity of Smiles (Nichalia Schwartz)
A Domestic Ripple (Ellies)
The Adams’s Boys (mleigh)
Billy Peeble’s Christmas (Ellies)
The Way He Used to Do (Ellies)
A Boy’s Vacation Time (Ellies)
A Boy’s Choice (Ellies)
A Discouraged Kindergartner (ambsweet13)
The Delusion of Ghosts (mleigh)
A Story of Self-Sacrifice (Ellies)
The Lost Child (Ellies)
Doughnutting Time (ambsweet13)
A Modern Miracle (Josh Ausfahl)
Nervoustown (mleigh)
Song of Summer Days (mleigh)
What Mother Doesn’t Know (mleigh)
So Lonesome Now (nighthawks)
A Little Love Story ()
On a Noiseless Fourth (yaumixx)
Conscious Ignorance (nighthawks)
The Playtime of Bachelor Bill (Alan Mapstone)
How Henry Blake Knows (nighthawks)
The Land of Blow Bubbles (SmilingJade)
The Gingercake Man (lmcnatt)
Lonesome (mleigh)
The Garden of Play (Carli)
We Ain’t Scared of Pa (mleigh)
A Pearl of Price (Teamimono)
Dear Little, Queer Little Man (Damien1110)
Girl of Mine (samjn)
Chums (mleigh)
The Lost Boy (Damien1110)
Lines to a Baby Girl (Michelle Thompson)
Little Mischefuss (mleigh)
The Travels of Mortimer Brown (mleigh)
Adventurers Three (Teamimono)
When They Love You So (Jody Holman)
Somebody Did (mleigh)
The Waders (Alan Mapstone)
The Prisoned Pupil (Michele Eaton)
A Prayer for Jimmy Banks (mleigh)
A Child’s Christmas Prayer ()
Henry Blake’s Chum (nighthawks)
Once Upon a Time ()
The Way to School (Katelyn)
A Present for Little Boy Blue (Damien1110)
The Evolution of an Adoption (mleigh)
Some Girls that Mamma Knew (Ellies)
Gone (Kathleen Moore)
The Neighbor’s Boys (Kathleen Moore)
A Quiet Afternoon (Kathleen Moore)
The Ownerless Toys (Kathleen Moore)
The Stranger (Kathleen Moore)
In Vacation Time (Kathleen Moore)
Bereaved (Kathleen Moore)
Two Little Maids (nighthawks)
A New Christmas Carol (Jody Holman)
The Reconciliation of Pa (Ellies)
A World without Care (arisakinugawa)
Right After School (Jennifer Louise)
A Plea for Old Friends (Alan Mapstone)
The Boyville Cadets (mleigh)
A Little Boy I Know (Jennifer Louise)
Asleep at the Circus (Damien1110)
The Barriers (nighthawks)
The Plaint of the New Doll (Ellies)
A Child’s Almanac (Ellies)
The Loser (Jason Vu)
Back to School (Carli)
Disenchantments (Sebastian LaVine)
A Rainy Night (Sebastian LaVine)
Kitchen Miracles (Sebastian LaVine)
Jim Brady’s Big Brother (Sebastian LaVine)
The Scapegoat (Sebastian LaVine)
A Tragedy of Center Field (Sebastian LaVine)
In Swimming (Sebastian LaVine)
An Unusual Chum (Sebastian LaVine)
And Just Then (Alan Mapstone)
Afterwards (arisakinugawa)
Circus Day (Damien1110)
The Tour of a Smile (mleigh)
When Grandpa Plays (Alan Mapstone)
The Parted Ways (Damien1110)
A Message Home (Paul Harvey)
Lullaby (Damien1110)
Disguising Toil (mleigh)
Little Girl with the Curls (ambsweet13)
My Wonderful Dad (Astrid Weinmann)
Remembrances, Bill (Astrid Weinmann)
The Bereavement (MeelahMagnificent)
In Childhood Time (ChingYi)
Don’t (Damien1110)
Extinguished (Alan Mapstone)
The Uncheered Hero (mleigh)
Old Hallowe’en Friends (Grace Buchanan)
A Refuge in Distress (mleigh)
The Lost Heart (SmilingJade)
Verses of a Little Child (Grace Buchanan)
Golden Days in Slowville (Alan Mapstone)
The Heart of a Child (nighthawks)
The Strenuous Life (mleigh)
A Song of Motherhood (SmilingJade)
Youth (Alan Mapstone)
After the Years (SmilingJade)
A Verse to Memory (Damien1110)
Lest I Forget (HelenaDiamandiz)
Echo of a Song (lmcnatt)
Lovers’ Lane (Soeun (Kelly) Park)
To Children at the Hearth (Grace Buchanan)
Daddy Knows (mleigh)
A Toast to the Small Boy (Nicole Foxe)
An Adventurous Day (Nicole Foxe)
Poem of the Foragers (Larry Wilson)
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