Best Famous Childhoods Poems
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Written by
Philip Levine |
The alder shudders in the April winds
off the moon. No one is awake and yet
sunlight streams across
the hundred still beds
of the public wards
for children. At ten
do we truly sleep
in a blessed sleep
guarded by angels
and social workers?
Do we dream of gold
found in secret trunks
in familiar rooms?
Do we talk to cats
and dogs? I think not.
I think when I was
ten I was almost
an adult, slightly
less sentimental
than now and better
with figures. No one
could force me to cry,
nothing could convince
me of God's concern
for America
much less the fall of
a sparrow. I spit
into the wind, even
on mornings like this,
the air clear, the sky
utterly silent,
the fresh light flooding
across bed after
bed as though something
were reaching blindly --
for we are blindest
in sunlight -- for hands
to take and eyelids
to caress and bless
before they open
to the alder gone
still and the winds hushed,
before the children
waken separately
into their childhoods.
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Written by
Lam Quang My |
At midnight I was woken
By sounds of wind around
A calling comes to me
A voice from far home lands
Unclear voices question
Call from many years
As such voices will
Arising from my heart
Perhaps this trace forgotten
Torn childhoods
Exile voice of soul
Shadow crawl of days
No sun can shine those mornings
Nor can I hear one bird
But never silence falls
On the storm within my heart!
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