Child Age Poems

Double pain in my heart
The sad I feel tears me apart
From my our family I had to band my brother 
That would of killed our...

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I

Old Age, take me not as thy fugitive, 
For long I’ve been thy earnest votary,
But now that approaches life’s fateful eve,
Ye oft make me rethink...

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It is a poem nobody wants to write,
About what will never be right,
About those who think they have the right,
To take from a child all...

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I want to write something beautiful for you
How can when all I am is ugly?
Grab a mirror just to be sure
Reflecting sunsets and puppies
Can something...

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When we think of adoption,
We seldom see it  through the eyes of a child,
Too often blinded by our own egos,
Too often carried away on...

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ME BEING A GROWN-UP

Every day my life was changing
I didn't realize how fast it was happening
Sometimes I wonder where all the time go
It seems like...

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Old Harry, Hungry

Elder Harry was happy
Excited to eat, like a child versus old
Cookie was first stuffed, eagerly eating

Following was rest of his dinner
Pasta, was told

First,...

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When I was small
The skies were a deeper blue and magical
Food tasted different and wonderful 
Everything was new and fanciful
And I was innocent

Where's that entombed?

Can...

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I hug secrets
  and dusty thoughts
          fading
falling into silence
   becoming invisible

My mind is...

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Mom
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Where is my metal
When i am weak
Where is my coastline
From the deep...
Where is the fountainhead
Of our parenthood
Her heart is never
A padlock
She rubs my ear
And...

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Teenagers, oh how they grow,
With hormones raging, they are a show!
Their taste in music and style that's new,
With beats so fresh and fashion so true.

They...

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It happened again in the bookstore the other day…
It has happened to me before….
In truth…as each year passes…it happens a little more.

It’s pretty much always...

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On the day that my family died,
They didn't give me a chance to dry.
I WAS 12

They told me that I was now on their side,
That...

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The 90s was a quite a time for me.

As a quiet child.

As a lonely child.

On the tire swing, I could see the world.

Until they stopped...

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Make sure you do not need the toilet before stepping into a lift.

If you drop something pick it up before a packrat or a magpie...

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