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Lost Childhood Poems

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


Premium Member Shirley Temple Roundel
Comeback-Shirley, starting early,
I'm the sparkle that teases night.
Worship, the Madonna baby!
Comeback-Shirley

Foam hair curlers set loose coils tight.
Strawberry cheeks, fans wish to see.
Appearances, tilt the glass...

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Categories: celebrity, child, childhood, history,



Prisoner of the mind
In shadows deep where chaos grips my heart,  A whispered cry is heard from the darkened cells

A child once laughing beneath a sunlit sky,...

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Categories: anger, childhood, depression, lost,

The Mirror
When I look in the mirror, I don’t see me; I see who I used to be.
A little lost girl who was so abused and...

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Categories: childhood, anger, caregiving, change, character,

Child of Light
Small hands, reaching for a sun,
That hides behind a world undone.
Child of light, with eyes so bright,
Now dimmed by shadows of the night.

A tiny seed...

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Categories: childhood, 10th grade, angel, cheer

Premium Member Childhood Again
After "Where The Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein 

There is a place where the sidewalk ends,
but I've not found it again; a place
where real life...

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Categories: childhood, fantasy,



Toddler Hulk
I’m thinking of a person 
Who is strong and resilient. 
Big in personality but size is small. 
When mad, they turn a green pigment. 
All...

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Categories: brother, child, childhood, children,

Premium Member Living With Childhood Fantasy

“Childhood hides in the niche of mind with fossilized fantasy”-
By Poet


The yonder blue hills from the hazy horizon 
cascaded gently down the alluring landscape,
carving the...

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Categories: childhood, imagination,

Custody Blues in C minor
"Custody Blues in C Minor"
 (Disaster and Love as a Single Father)


 One coffee mug I purchased had a cracked lip, A plastic spoon, and...

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Categories: angst, child, childhood,

Premium Member Toppie the Elephant
There was once
a pink plaid elephant
whose trunk I kissed to sleep.
I won her fair and square—
a coloring contest,
Top Value Stamps.

She slept beside me
every night.
Her trunk,...

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Categories: childhood, family, miracle,

Premium Member June Bug

My little cousin, Junior, lost his mom when she was only 39 and he was 9. It was such a devastating time for him –...

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Categories: blessing, child, childhood, june,

Premium Member Christmas Eyes
Eyes glassy to the medication
messy are the red on wrists
I hate those grey heavy doors
They carry only misery lore
of the souls lost to hospitals
And the...

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Categories: child, childhood, creation, death,

Emerald Hill Childrens' Home
In forgotten fields of green,
Where laughter echoed, wild and free,
I chase the ghosts of childhood's dream,
And whispers of yesterday's sweet theme.

Sunday morning, bright and fair,
Church...

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Categories: appreciation, care, childhood, innocence,

Premium Member Foster Kids
Falling in between family cracks
Only with shirt on your back
Sometimes life is incredibly wacked 
The adults mistakes mean life is bad
Even though it’s not your...

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Categories: childhood, africa, america, appreciation, child,

The Small Mother
“That Night, I Became a Mother”

She came in and curled up to sleep,
not a care, not a sound,
while her brother cried soft, lost sobs
in the...

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Categories: appreciation, baby, beautiful, childhood,

Premium Member Forgive me, childhood, sweet mirage of lost time
Forgive me, childhood, sweet mirage of lost time,
When I ran through fields with dreams tied to the blue sky,
There was a time when I believed...

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Categories: childhood, fantasy,


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