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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.


reflection
cold floor, presses into my bones
whispering
its time for this color to go
today, i want her back
so into my wounds seep the chemicals
that i used to...

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Categories: childhood,



for a childhood memory
porch swing
raining

no scares
free air

small girl
unfurl

back, forth
ghosts storm

lightning
blending

lost flash
backlash

time meant
ringlets

rocking,
rocking...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: childhood, child, innocence, lonely, lost,

Premium Member Carnival Edge Epiphany
Written: July 30, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori

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The carnival...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: appreciation, childhood,

Maybe
The whisper of a promise 
The hope of a new dawn 
The sun rises with curiosity 
Of what might come along 
Of who might change...

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Categories: age, childhood, discrimination, peace,

Ghosts Of Us
Gone in sight and sound,
But drift in silence, lost in space.
Old laughs now echo, thin and cold,
In rooms where warmth forgot to hold.

We were a...

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© Anakha A R  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: childhood, beautiful, best friend, betrayal,



Premium Member The Joy Of Childhood
Finding your lost mittens in the school’s lost and found.
Playing with some puppies as they run and jump around.
Happiness on your first day at school...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: childhood, adventure, children, freedom, fun,

Premium Member FLYING SWINGS
FLYING SWINGS*
Flying swings,
Built on the thrill of gravity’s gentle hand,
Lift us up, strange birds
Into the turning sky
Where joy sways with the breeze,
Childhood's dance suspended in...

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Categories: 12th grade, childhood,

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,


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