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the poem of a tired daughterI have to deal with Noah when I wake up.
When I sleep.
In the middle of the day.
Where's my rest?
I have to deal with him when I'm with Roland.
When I'm with mom.
When I'm with Grandpa.
When do...
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Categories:
child, childhood, depression, family,
Form: Free verse
Age of Aquarius
Time was when illumed in a golden sun
a boy was I and a goddess was she,
and at the heart of her constellation
gazed I upon its infinite beauty.
I vowed the ends...
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Categories:
childhood, first love, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Six Shots of Southern ComfortBonne nuit, numbers and digits
Did you miss hearing the drunk specter sing?
Back to waffle again about their trauma and joy
Derek isn't even their real name
Where were you when the millennium turned?
I can't imagine it was...
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Categories:
childhood, introspection, memory, niece,
Form: Free verse
You Were Feeling Like a KidYou toss them to the ground, they don’t beckon or call,
They’re a pair of jeans, and to the ground they fall,
They stay as long as you threw them,
Yet they could stand tall,
When they’re on you...
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Categories:
beautiful, change, childhood, death
Form: Rhyme
Cruel SchoolBy that pool, where the shadows did rule,
A confused kid, thought he'd end it cruel,
He plunged his weary head,
With a heart capped of dread,
But recalled he has homework for school.
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Categories:
childhood, abuse, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Limerick
Museum Of Memory
My volatile mind wanders in fanciful cauldron of emptiness,
floats on the fairy flotilla in the sunburst cloud’s recess,
makes a fascinating painting of formless fantasy
on the synthetic canvas in the museum of memory....
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Categories:
analogy, childhood, fantasy, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Second ChildhoodThis epitaph— the grave beats with silence
betweeen the lines, signature of me be read
Now a second childhood's play—
for heaven was created before death....
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Categories:
beauty, childhood, death, heaven,
Form: Rubai
The Graces of a Little PlaceWe were always close together
As the house we had was small.
Family meals there knit a tether,
And precious voices filled the halls.
The dog was in and out of course
And he surely didn’t mind
To steal away...
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, childhood, family,
Form: Rhyme
I MissI miss the days and nights
whether sun or rain
where I would run through a meadow of tall grass
to reach the woods of Elm and Hickory trees
where a shallow rippling stream covered limestone...
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Categories:
childhood,
Form: Free verse
Mobile phone addictionIt's a sad sad day when a mother's attention sways from her
Little daughter swimming
To a social media prison
I kid not these are indeed the last days
I look left and right I can't say I'm amazed
Women...
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Categories:
child, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes in the ShadowsGazing up at the dark and grey sky,
While Sparkling drizzles adorn the earth,
Calmness filling up as time goes by,
And the drops trickle down the hearth.
I settled down to cherish the serene blues,
Engaged deeply in its...
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Categories:
childhood, deep, fantasy, for
Form: Rhyme
Memories Of an Inner ChildI have lived in many houses,
but never at home.
The plastic bag in which I kept my belongings faithfully aided me
with getting here
and there,
while facing the unknown.
(How does it feel like? To have a home?)
I grew...
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Categories:
child, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
who needs socksrunning across stones (to see who could do it)
playing in the sand on beach
walking through a creek...
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Categories:
childhood,
Form: Haiku
The Green Bike
It stands propped
against a wall in my memory,
that green two wheeler bike,
my first, bought second hand
from a neighbor.
A deep, gravel graze I got
from learning to ride it, I swear,
still pains a...
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Categories:
childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Jackson Paper Retires"Puff the magic dragon, lived by the sea", Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow
His name was Jackson Paper.
Forgotten by history,
disappearing like a vapor,
he was born near Honalee.
He became successful enough,
but forgot his childhood friend.
Years later,...
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Categories:
childhood, humor, imagination, music,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Childhood Poems
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