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Teddy BearI smelled of lavenders when she first held me,
With her tiny hands and smile of a dove.
I became her best friend,
She would meet me day and night,
Feed me and put me to sleep.
I watched her...
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Categories:
12th grade, childhood, girl,
Form: Free verse
May Day
Oh, the memories of yesteryears
Many were filled with happy tears
Unaccompanied by painful fears
Laughter and chatter filled our ears
Time must not be allowed to steal
Those sacred times that also heal
Those years spent with childhood peers
Like a...
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Categories:
childhood,
Form: Couplet
Strawberry SmilesThere is no match for the strawberry patch
When my girls and I go to pickin!
We look for the big, red luscious delights
And joyfully smile when they come into sight.
“I got one, oh look there are...
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Categories:
blessing, childhood, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Rusty swings
Nights that smell of dew,
days that smell of fresh grass,
flowers that bloom to be seen for a short time,
leaving their fragrance in the air for us to feel that unforgettable instant.
Slippery days missed somewhere...
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
How to pick Dragon FruitSnatch it from the dragon's lair
while he's sleeping, shh, beware
(or you'll get caught in his stare)
eat some, share some, if you dare
(preserve rest in fridgidaire)
if he awakes -- say a prayer
--to avoid his roasty flare
barbecuing...
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Categories:
animal, childhood, fire, fruit,
Form: Monorhyme
1980s childhood1980s childhood Haikus
Tech-free
Nature's performing
Batteries not included
childhood playground
My bike
Pink banana seat
A basket full of daisies
Warm wind on my face
Saturdays
Cartoons and breakfast
The sky our only roof top
Street lights call us home
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Categories:
childhood, summer,
Form: Senryu
Under the sea where everything was buriedMemories of the beach and young years are bright
I wish I could take you with me wherever I go
I take people for granted
but I'm just scared of getting too attached
It's a complex set of...
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Categories:
childhood, devotion, life, lost,
Form: Free verse
Don't Throw Them to the WolvesWe have a choice,
On how many children will turn out,
And by throwing the parents under a bus,
For the Wolves and Jackals to fight over,
The outcome for the children will always be the same.
When we we...
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Categories:
appreciation, baptism, birth, childhood,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
On the PlaygroundThe bypassing kids looked at me hastily with their eyes sparkling, foreheads sweaty
but somehow they weren’t tired.
The girl climbed onto the swings with her hair being a mess, even though she was visibly...
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Categories:
care, childhood, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Do Poets Always Walk in the RainDo poets always walk in the rain?
This poet once did
When she was but a kid.
The bathwater of summer drops
Cascading from suburban chimney tops,
Puddles on pavement
Begging for splashing,
A robin’s egg in the grass
All fractured and bashed-in.
The...
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Categories:
childhood, growing up, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
A Boy's Fantastic VoyageHe began a voyage to a land afar,
But on every step in his journey, he shrunk.
He wanted to go to a far distant star,
But soon diminished to the size of a skunk.
He...
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Categories:
childhood, fantasy, star,
Form: Quatrain
That Was Then, This is NowThen:
The sun rises.
My world is small.
Everything has yet to happen.
One day, I'll go to school and learn important things -
Like my brothers -
I wish I was a year older.
I wonder, "who am...
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Categories:
age, childhood, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Milk Delivery ephemera poetryIn the morning light, a milk bottle stands,
A relic of bygone days, in my trembling hands.
Embossed with nostalgia, a link to the past,
From the dairy farm, where memories last.
As a little girl, I'd wait with...
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Categories:
change, childhood, history, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The BalloonBalloon, balloon, so high in the air,
Its destination I know not where,
Its point of departure, that is too
A mystery in the sky of blue.
I too wonder, wonder, why oh why
This bright drifter...
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Categories:
childhood, light, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten Field of Forever
Forgotten field of forever
I knew you once . . .
in daffodil days
when I wandered in wisteria ways.
Sprightly I skipped and rarely tripped.
Hope really did spring eternal then
in the spring of my strawberry youth.
Dahlia daydreams drifted...
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Categories:
childhood, war,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Childhood Poems
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bad, celebrating, early, friends, funny, growing up, happy, innocence, lost, memories, nostalgia, trauma, sad,
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