Written 6th of October, 2026
This Week's Poetry Challenge: Childhood Place
Write a poem about a place you remember from childhood.
Poem should focus on a childhood place, real or imagined.
We lived on an orchard, apples in autumn, cherries in summer. Though it wasn’t ours, we cared for the trees. We helped prune as we grew older. Dad was able to keep a cow. Her name was Carnation and she was ours. Dad milked her by hand, early each morning before work and again in the afternoon. Afternoons we could go too. First we helped herd her to the barn. Our reward was warm milk Dad squirted straight from her teats into our mouths. He missed sometimes. We would laugh so hard, milk all over our faces. I think he missed on purpose, just to make us laugh.
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