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Childhoods End
I have tried
As the years have gone by
To keep the child within me
Alive 
But each year that passes
Tiny bits and peaces
Fall away

You look so young
My friends all say
And as I thank them
I know 
It because the child in me
Still laughed and played

But these days
My life...

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Categories: childhoods, childhood, child, child, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
Past and Present Childhoods
He run's down the street almost skipping along,
Marble's in pocket he whistles a song.

She lay on her bed, click, click, click,s the remote,
Four hours of viewing with no other thought.

With red cheeks "to the wreck", like pirates they flee,
He giggles and hides neath the sycamore...

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Categories: childhoods, childhoodday,
Form:
Premium Member Childhoods End
No child left behind 
Was the chant at one time
Now kids in school
Dodge bullets and youth
Is filled with less sunshine...

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Categories: childhoods, art, child, poetry,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Childhoods
Come on strong child
with forced happiness
all you can try to do 
is be a pee green insect,
vestiges of grass
betray a once forlong child
All your dreams are rustled in the wind
as the old man opens the gates
of despondency
Do you wish to hold the key
to being sixty
and...

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Categories: childhoods, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry