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Nostalgia Childhood Poems

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


When Smiles Melt Too
The pavement claims ice cream from little sticky fingers. Cries echo through the air, tugging at the heartstrings of first-time parents. Turned-out pockets disarmed, everyone...

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Categories: beautiful, childhood, nostalgia, poetess,



Incandescent
noon’s furnace: asphalt shimmers; air—thick, slow—
cracks open. cicadas drill through stagnant gold.
a sprinkler’s hiccup-hiss: the pavement’s glow
un/curls in steam. the hydrant’s shout: uncontrolled.

children shriek!—a liquid...

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Categories: childhood, meaningful, metaphor, poetry, symbolism,

l'appel du vide
A void within me calls
wanting only what I've never had,
but I've always seen.
The taste of a possession so illegal,
It's to die for.
as literal and figurative...

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Categories: addiction, childhood, death, environment,

Pixie within the pink
Pixie within the pink
let me swirl your tyranny into the high-octaved melody of my earliest endurance
Right as the clock ticked to six, the creaking sound...

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Categories: childhood, 10th grade, children, color,

Premium Member Saladin's Head
Under the solar system
in our basement I sat,
copying schematics of
superheterodyne radios
from a book on electronics,
while my dad, across from me,
stood at his drawing board 
illustrating...

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Categories: 4th grade, art, childhood,



Premium Member I Think I'm Going to Cry
Oh, if I could see once more
a gumball machine in a grocery store.
Alas, these days, I never do see any,
although, they only cost a penny...

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Categories: childhood, nostalgia,

The Doors Of Memories
Wandering in the corridors of my heart 
Somewhere in a mystical part 
I came across a curious door 
But It felt like the  life's...

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Categories: childhood, 10th grade,

Hiku- Summertime Nostalgia
c a c k e d pavement and chalk,
    o     c      c
h ...

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Categories: childhood, writing,

Premium Member Changing Trains
I used to ride the train
from school to home and back,
every other weekend,
in an old Pullman car
built in the nineteen-thirties.
It smelled like my grandma’s house—
a...

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Categories: childhood, memory, nostalgia, travel,

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 Delectable Dreams Rimas Dissolutas
Delectable dreams of sweet treats 
chasing after the ice cream truck.
Lunge for that strawberry eclair,
fast like your life depends on it.

A street’s dead end cul-de-sac...

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Categories: childhood, emotions, nostalgia,

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 Cocal
Behold the shout of “SEA!” where ends the land
  down Manzanilla way on windward shore -
on coconut road, on ribbons of sand
  and...

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Categories: beach, childhood, memory, nostalgia,

Premium Member Fragrant Fumes, Pungent Memories
      Ah, the fragrant fumes of paint drying on a picket fence
        ...

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Categories: car, childhood, memory, moving

Premium Member Popcorn and Needles
I remember how 
you used to roll
your popcorn popper
across the floor grinning
and not paying attention
to where you were going—
and how happily you 
pretended to drive
the...

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Categories: addiction, boy, childhood, drug,


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