Childhood Blank Verse Poems
These Childhood Blank Verse poems are examples of Blank Verse poems about Childhood. These are the best examples of Blank Verse Childhood poems written by international poets.
Nothing seems to change
Black Sea of Hate**
I find myself unwilling to immerse myself in your vast and tumultuous black sea of hate.
It’s essential to recognize that nobody
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Categories:
abuse, allusion, angst, appreciation,
Sweep Me Back In Time
I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
rolling them over and over and over
leaving this reality behind, far behind...
Oh, magic rocks, please sweep me back
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Categories:
longing, magic, travel,
I never met him
I never met him
I don’t know who he is, the myself.
A complete stranger saying he is me
But I know nothing about him.
I know he was,
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Categories:
anti bullying, anxiety, arabic,
A child under wrinkled skin
Monsoon’s mellow air had made my mind to
Ponder on life’s past, fast backward and forth,
Till sudden lightning with muted thunder
Made me leave chair to
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Categories:
child, old, rain,
genders
Two genders
when we were toddlers, we played in the sandbox
and hide and seek, we didn't think about whose
gender we were
a few years later, the girls
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Categories:
allusion, america, anti bullying,
Proute Hill Church
I found myself standing in the old church, near the entrance. It had been over thirty years since I last set foot there, and now,
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Categories:
addiction, allusion, angst, caregiving,
stuck
virginal maiden exited the cave and faced gruesome Castle Landmore
ghoulish feel in the air, grisly murders had been committed here
a chill zapped through her heart,
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Categories:
life,
through the ages
Through the Ages
I'm back in the streets of my childhood
no, there is no fanfare I have lived long
in a place with warmer hearts
Here, where I
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Categories:
absence, abuse, age, courage,
summer evening and death
A summer evening and death
I sat in my study thinking about death
not in an abject way, but I'm 86
and thinking if death has any meaning
and
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Categories:
age, assonance, break up,
the lizard
The Lizard
He had travelled long distances before
going back to where he was a child
Stopped out what had been his parents
house, someone else lived in their
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Categories:
absence, abuse, addiction,
In loving memory
“In Loving Memory”
It is the language within me that must transform, Lucky number seven, she used to say, “I bore seven children,” with the birthing
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Categories:
america, anger, anniversary, anxiety,
Leave me alone in the Morning
Elegy of the River and the Sea
For life and death are one,
like the river and the sea.
In grief, our tears taste different,
our ways of mourning
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Categories:
absence, abuse, addiction, beautiful,
when the lights dim
When the light dims
The man in the lunch café drank 3 tall glasses of wine
he spoke loudly trying to draw attention to himself
not that I'm
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Categories:
absence, abuse, age, write,
termination
The Termination
Hallo Ann, let me tell you about your mother,
she was younger than I and a dancer
She got a job dancing at a club in Madrid
alas,
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Categories:
angel, betrayal, birth,
rat catcher
Rat Catcher
I feel repulsed when he is near, I ought to have compassion
for this cripple, a twisted foot. an arm that does not
function as
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Categories:
absence, break up, crush,