Story/Poetry of the Week

All original children's stories written by David Bock. Read these children's stories as an extra at storytime. Check back for new additions.

Light Balls

There once were three little balls of light floating through deep space. They just left Star Base Alpha and didn't really know where they were going. But they heard a voice whisper, "You are eternal beings of light. Everything is going to be all right."

They raced along through galaxy after galaxy dodging comets and sweeping by black holes. Each time hearing the words, "You are eternal beings of light. Everything is going to be all right."

After nearly colliding with three other balls of light laughing their way back to Star Base Alpha, these new three balls of light came to a blue green planet called Earth. They dove down through Earth's atmosphere scared of what this strange world would be like. Their speed picked up each second as they descended to the surface. They saw three flowers standing on the ground waiting for their arrival.

"Strange specimens, but beautiful," the light balls thought of the flowers. Again they worried, "What will become of us in these flowers?" And again the voice whispered, "You are eternal beings of light. Everything is going to be all right."

The three balls of light each were absorbed into their intended flower. The flowers transformed the balls of light into energy to grow and the light balls didn't know what they were anymore. But then something magical happened.

The little balls of light that had dissolved inside the flowers were transfrormed into energy form after energy form until they reformed again as little balls of light that the flowers were about to shine forth and shoot back out into the universe. They each sat on the edge of a flower petal looking up at the stars in the night sky.

The light balls fell asleep to dream of their next journey across galaxy after galaxy. But a funny thing happened, when they woke up they all looked into a giant mirror to see that they were humans now. And again they heard a voice whisper to them, "You are eternal beings of light. Everything is going to be all right."

Dreams, Beans, and Me

Dreams always seem like they can't be seen
In worlds that don't have magic beans
But magic beans and magic seeds
That first grow into little weeds
Can grow up to be towering trees
Extending far beyond Giants' knees
Sending the dreamer to anywhere
They could ever want or wish to care
And all it took were two eyes
To notice the beauty that lies
In something so tiny
as a lean little bean,
or a seed or a weed
or something that could be
as tiny as little old me.

The Bee Who Couldn't See

Along came a bee
Who could not see
A leaf, a flower, or even a tree
But the bee could fly
And the bee could dive
The bee could try
And the bee survived
The bee could smell
And the bee could feel
So the bee did well
And had good meals
The bee found nectar
And the bee made honey
The honey tasted better
Than sweet chocolate money
Others pointed and screamed
I can't believe it!
How can this be?
We won't have it!
This is all wrong!
An unseeing bee?
She won't last long
She soon won't be
But the bee didn't listen
To the doubts in their minds
She flew and she glistened
Flying far, flying wide
Sucking nectar, making honey
Spreading pollen of flowers
Filling the world that we see
With colors of her power
Being all she could be
The bee who couldn't see

Two Red Buttons

There once was a jolly old man who carried a big red bag and flew a big red sleigh. One night he lost two red buttons off of his big red coat.

There once was a red brick house which had a big green treee which stood above a room full of presents which covered the floor.

And there once were two little children who woke up one morning to run and see what fun waited for them underneath that big green tree. They saw a mountain of toys.

There was a tricycle, a doll house, a glitter wand, a rocket ship, a football, a toolbox, a tiny toy kitchen, some paints, some colors, even candy and chocolate. And there was more, so much more.

The little boy and the little girl moved from present to present digging and digging until they found something most special. Beneath all the bows and the boxes, there were two small round little objects shaped like circles with black ash on top and red coloring beneath and even a cookie crumb in the middle. The children looked at each other and smiled forgetting about the mountain of toys and trinkets, for behold they found a treasure.

They jumped and they giggled. The little boy ran around shouting, "It's a spaceship, it's a wormhole, it's a comet, it's a planet, it's a whirlpool." The little girl jumped around saying, "And it's a car, it's the sun, it's a bubble bath, it's a telescope, it's alive." Then they touched the two buttons together and sparks flew into the air and circled the tree and off the children went.

They flew through the air on a double propellered plane that took them to a launching pad where they boarded a rocket headed towards two stars. But before they could get to the stars they landed on the moon where they collected two moon rocks which somehow turned into bubbles.

They jumped inside these two red bubbles and floated back to Earth and into a cave where they found two red rubies. But one of the rubies cut the little boy's skin so they decided to hitch a ride on two red blood cells to get a tour of the human body. And when they were sneezed out of two long nostrils they had to wash off in the bubble bath of the two red bathtubs.

But when they pulled the drain to let out the water, it was the floor in the room in front of the big green tree that opened up into a giant whirlpool. All of the toys had begun to circle madly around the room faster and faster. They were all about to get sucked down the whirlpool and out of sight when the children came up with a plan. They closed up the widening hole in the floor with the two red buttons.

After buttoning up the floor, the children just laughed and said, "Wow, that was close."   They rushed to tell everyone what magic they had found and what places they had been. But Mom and Dad just said, "That's nice." Grandma and Grandpa, said "Stop digging in the trash." And even thier friends said, "Are you crazy?"

But the little boy and the little girl didn't mind. They were happy to return to a magical world where they were only limited by the magic of the two red buttons.

The Man Who Could Turn Anything Into Something

There once was a man who could turn anything into something. Imagine that! He could turn a blade of grass into a shining sword. He turned a pebble into a bowling ball. He even once turned a sheet of paper into an enormous house.

People from all over the world would come to him carrying little anythings. They all hoped this magic man could turn their anythings into somethings. People brought threads, strands of hair, plastic cups, pens, even balls of dust. The man always, always was able to turn these little anythings into somethings. The thread into a tugboat rope, the strand of hair into a winter coat, the plastic cup into a boat, the pen into a swiss army knife, and even the little ball of dust was turned into a small pet hamster. Amazing!

Then one day, a little girl walked miles and miles carrying nothing but herself. She asked the man, “Mister. I have heard that you can turn anything into something.”
"Yes I can,” the man replied.
“But can you turn anybody into somebody?”
“Hmmm,” the man smiled. “You think that would be something?”
“Yes,” the little girl said, “I am just an anybody, but I want to be a somebody.”
“This is going to be interesting indeed,” the man said.

The man sent the girl away and told her to come back tomorrow. “I am going to have to think about this one,” he told her. So the next day, the girl came back still wanting to be somebody. The man told her, “I’m not finished. I think you should come back tomorrow.” The girl did this everyday, and everyday the man told her to come back the next day until one day he told her, “Here, I think I have it!” The man gave the little girl a mirror 6 feet tall and 2 feet wide. “Look into this mirror everyday and think of me. I promise you, you will be somebody.”

So the girl took the mirror home and everyday she looked into it and thought of the old man and how he could turn anything into something hoping she would change from anybody into somebody.

Years and years went by. She didn’t notice any changes but she believed that something would happen. More years and years went by and the little girl was now a grown woman. She was beautiful and smart. She had the most wonderful job and she had even been around the world. And one day she looked at herself in the mirror and said, “Wow, I really am somebody.” So she went to find the old man to thank him for the magic mirror he had given her.

She finally found the now very old man and told him, “Oh thank you so much for giving me that mirror that changes anybody into somebody. It worked. Thank you. Thank you.”
“Oh that old thing,” the old man said. “That was just a regular old mirror I found in the junkyard. I didn’t put any magic spells on it.”
“What?” the young woman was shocked.
The old man smiled and laughed, “You see sweetheart, you were always somebody. You were never just anybody. It just took yourself noticing yourself being a somebody. I guess the mirror let you see yourself as you really are. A beautiful somebody. Always was and always will be. No matter how many somethings you get or do, you will always be a fantastic somebody.”

And the young woman who used to be a little girl just looked at him and said “Thank you.”