Childhood Poems | Examples of Childhood Poetry

MUD

MUD
water
mixed with dirt

in early childhood
on my knees happily
I formed mud pies with my hand

“the outdoors was my first kitchen”

Rain

RAIN
Drizzle
Soft Showers

Wet streets are gleaming
Footsteps splashing puddles
Cold drops kiss my face again

“Childhood storms dancing on my skin”

Poetry, phonography

Yes ma, I am a boy and I don't like the lack of favour which I had been offered so I wont sit with the others and this is because I am a tainted boy, who found what love was on the tint of my phone, blocking out the camera with my thumb in case

Inner Child

You're never too old
to be young
at heart
even Freud was Jung
from the very start
altho' childbirth
is a labour of love
it's all in the swing
of things
and to about-face
child discipline
is strictly a case
of heir conditioning

Ikigai: Petals in Stillness

Spring — Passion

Kintsugi dawn—
white plum scents night air
tea rises in stillness.

Cranes cross pale sky;
child laughter drifts on moss.
A garden remembers.

Summer — Vocation

Tatami breathes—
cicada shells cling
reborn softly.

Koi flicker below
ripples fade in quiet hands.
Evening thunder calls—

incense drifts
forms bow.

Autumn — Mission

Fox lanterns kindle
shoji float through silver mist—
ancestral spirits stir.

Stray dog nestles
by the gate;
even strays seek warmth.

Tea vapor
recalls morning.

Winter

Random Thoughts 7: Military Kid

I am from nowhere
And everywhere
My home is with the open road
And the setting sun 
On the horizon of the Pacific

Tears of the Dragon

I can’t believe I once believed
that dragons could shed tears—
a time when my mind was robed
in the fragile cloth of childhood.

I wandered alleys where clouds bent low,
pressing their weight upon my skull.
Shadows snapped at my heels like starving dogs,
my heart swung loose inside my throat.
The tremor in my boots chained me still,
and every thought I

Mickey Mouse

        Contest: Cartoon Character Clerihew
   Judged:  8/17/2025 6:29:00 AM
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
Placement: First
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Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse
Still struts through each media house,
With hose stretched tighter than his grin,
And yellow shoes too big for his thin shin.

Luce Riflessa

…

Luce riflessa.

…

Non dà calore.

…

Io, la Luna.

…

Tu, un Girasole.

Pain for Pain

You say your sorry for offending me as if that can heal me as if that makes anything better 
Too little to late
You ask for help because you’re scared but being in pain does not absolve you from your sins
You put me through the worst pain of my life so look at me when I

Stretch And Seek

               Seek 
          them all out,
     overrun they thrive.
Fields full of hiding places 
              

Leaves

LEAVES
cascade
for the Earth

Fall's salutations
swept into frail mountains
laughing, we dive; they crumble

"brittle blades breathes a vibrant life"

BEACH

BEACH
water
sandy shore


picking up seashells
making big sand castles
playing in the blue water


"lasting beach dreams of childhood days"

RENEWED

A lifeless cloud, aloft invisible air
   Blows Eastward;
  A destination Fate had prepared.
                 Renewed
        Is a bludgeoned heart,
 No longer fueld  by loneliness and despair.

  The demise

Leaf - Rhyming Version

LEAF
imprint 
in cement

pressed in the sidewalk
we lingered there and talked 
a thought she once gave to me

"a soul friendship will ever be"

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