POEMS FOR Today (on being a child) by Liz Soutendijk includes poems full of playfulness. humor and the sincerest expressions of love. Many of the poems include line drawings her artist husband - Bart Soutendijk. The narrative poems cover many stories about being a child . For example: A childs concern about a what is making the buzzing sound while flying around his head . Or a child recalling how his mother will do anything to make them eat vegetables at dinner. Or in the poem “Today” a child with youthful hubris declares – “Today, I saved the world.” and begins to tell us how. Like many of the poems, “Today” contains a surprise ending Some of the poems were brought to life by the line drawings that inspired them.