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Childhood Child Poems

These Childhood Child poems are examples of Child poems about Childhood. These are the best examples of Child Childhood poems written by international poets.


playground scars
Little Girl swings in the air,
legs pumping, wind in hair
the closest to flight she’ll ever be.
freedom and fairytales whisper in her ears,
telling her with each...

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© Oliver Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abuse, anger, angst, child



baby elephants - a letter to my mother
baby elephants stay with their mothers their whole lives
they follow them for miles, 
hiding in the maternal shade 
of large, floppy ears,
perfect for listening to...

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© Oliver Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: child, child abuse, childhood,

I must say
I'm afraid of you
I must say
I'm afraid of your eyes
I'm afraid of your face
I'm afraid of your mouth
I'm afraid of your gaze
I'm afraid of you
I...

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Categories: child abuse, childhood,

Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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Categories: child abuse, father son,

Premium Member Trama
Angry voices
Bellow my full name
Crystol Lynn!
Do you hear me?
Enter the mother and
Father. 
Go away to another place
High above the trouble and terror
Isolate my childhood self
Justice...

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Categories: abuse, child abuse, family,



A poem I should not have to write
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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Categories: child, abuse, age, allusion, analogy,

Premium Member Leave no one behind
to and fro, the winding roads, noise and din,
laughing some, some in tears wave to their kin,
fresh faces, childhood dreams, away they go,
count them in,...

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Categories: child, 10th grade, 11th grade,

Premium Member That Was Then, This Is Now
I love hearing stories,
stories from my grandparents.
They love to tell stories,
stories from many years ago.
Grandma tells about bread,
when black showed up they would cut if off.
Then...

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Categories: blue, child, food, grandparents,

Her Adamant Face
Adamant Face
My mother used to say with an adamant face, "There is a place for everything and for everything a place!”
My goodness, this house is...

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Categories: childhood, family, fun, my

Sitting With Winnie
Sitting with Winnie

Running from MiMi in polka dots 
Makes me giggle at haughty tots
Who don’t want to use their potty pots.
I’m now thinking of tequila...

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Categories: baby, child, childhood, grandchild,

What About Me?
I sit and look at my Father,
His silent cries when he looks at his daughter,
In the darkness of the night,
Battling the tribulations so that we...

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Categories: betrayal, birth, child, child

Premium Member Blame
Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. By John Burroughs


Life has many ups...

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Categories: child, hurt, life, people,

Somebody I used to know
Today I was asked to think of something nice to do for myself everyday 
But I couldn't, 
I froze I couldn't think of a single...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: child, childhood, me, meaningful,

My inner child
My inner child 

Today I reconnected with my inner child,
I realised how she once always smiled, 
Her innocent glowing face is now tear stained,
And full...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: childhood, children, deep, meaningful,

The parallel life of a woman


              To be a woman:
       ...

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Categories: analogy, child abuse, father,


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