Terms of Endearment
©1981 Susan Noyes Anderson
Let me call you sweetheart,
I’m in love with you.
Let me call you Snookums,
Toots, and Poopsie too.
Let me call you Honeybunch
and Lambie-Poo.
Then if you don’t puke, I’ll
know your love is true.
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I think we can all agree that some of these old terms of endearment are pretty lame. Snookums, Toots, and Poopsie just don’t make the grade these days. They’re fun to say, though, and I can think of nothing more entertaining than to give your valentine a little taste of them on his or her special day. You might even get a Honeybunch or Lambie-Poo in return, if you’re lucky!
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Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.