Childhood Beyond Poems

In my dreams
I am small
Flowers budding
Behind deaf ears
When I leave you
Inevitable in its longing
I wish to be
A grain of sand
In your hurricane
A leaf in your...

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She is a carefree child
skipping through the woods
in the spring of her life.
See her skipping into her future,
oblivious to the life that is to be.

Decades...

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Ah, how I wish I could freeze time,
And vanish into Daisy's mystical rime.
Unreachable in child's school hood,
after cutting short a fleeting childhood.

Everything here appears to...

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Beyond reach in her child's world as she plays
Lost in her magic land of flower friends
Could I but capture the remaining days

Before fleeting childhood too...

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This world seems so care free,                   ...

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Best Boy Beyond

Precocious...

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Beyond speech
Before the words
Even leave your lips
Thinking about thinking
Looking at your thoughts
I see the building blocks 
Of your breaking down
It's noisy sound image
An abstract tree...

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He lost her that night.

Before-
Weeks after school and weekends,
weather or not,
they had  built the fort-
strong, Indian proof.
Father had provided a tarp.
and his father’s High...

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Blessings beyond or belief                     ...

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AS A KID AND BEYOND

did I ever wonder?
what my upbringing brought for me;
and did it disappoint
or just bring feelings to resurface,
but never sensitivities 
of deep...

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Precocious boy, yon ere the age of twelve,
Parades vast knowledge, complexity swelled,
Our simplistic share was well understood,
Kept back of minds, preserves naive childhood.

Green imparts years...

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Death it comes and it seems is nothing to fear,
Although we mourn our loved ones and wish them near,
Fading into the distance are memories from...

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Thinking of pastures and the playground,
Animals and the birds around.
Dying to meet his friends.
Who have been declared unlucky,
For not getting a chance to study.

With no...

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Beyond the breakers, dreamers hoist their sails
Lost in the clouds, on ships of make believe
A stowaway, escaping life's travails
Adventurer, Inventing hearts to thieve

Imagination wakes the...

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Within all of us 
there is a fantastic dream world 
It reveals itself 
at night 
As the mind works out its problems 
through vivid imagery...

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