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Childhood Free Verse Poems

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


The Prismatic Self
I write because silence was a tyrant
with a velvet muzzle.
Because childhood was a soundproof cage,
and I was taught to swallow every scream
like communion.

“Poetry is not...

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Categories: deep,



Inside cell of 16
By 11, I thought I'd have it down by 15,
But by 16 and a sour sunday morn,
And daisy chains foiled into the moor,
And hands that...

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Categories: absence, abuse, childhood, family,

Gold Star Sadness
I get straight A’s 
I show up 
I say thank you 
I win medals 
And never cry
In public 

They say 
I’m so mature
So composed 
So...

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Categories: 10th grade, childhood, depression,

Premium Member In the same realm where the flight of birds once lifted me high
In the same realm where the flight of birds once lifted me high,
Now my wings are broken, and their song is but a whisper,
A symphony...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fantasy,

Premium Member The Hall
Laughter of children and the dull clatter of small feet on aged wood. The congestion of men's voices with talk of crops, rain, and "remembering...

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Categories: childhood,



Fly Away, Bird
The swish of heaven glimpsed
beneath in girl's Winter
eyes — this solo bird, she's
large seen by blue. She 
beats me, with her song — 
memory streaks...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, bird, flying, introspection,

Post This Letter For Me
            We are walking on the fine lines
      ...

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Categories: america, angst, appreciation, beautiful,

Post This Letter For Me
            We are walking on the fine lines
      ...

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Categories: america, angst, appreciation, beautiful,

Inherited Chains
I remember wishing for her happiness, 
for if she smiled, all would be fine. 
She was a tempest, 
a storm of anger, sadness, and despair,...

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Categories: 9th grade, abuse, anger,

My Mother
Her face is a clock I know by heart,
laugh lines like sunbeams,
worry wrinkles like pencil marks
from all the times she erased my fears.
Her eyes are...

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Categories: daughter, mother, mother daughter,

Mother
I was young when my dad left;
each day was a burden on its own.
Before he left, he and my mom would always quarrel,
and I saw...

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Categories: absence, betrayal, childhood, cry,

Premium Member Christmas morning
i tried to stay up
but when i awoke
i could tell santa had been here



AP: 2nd place 2025

Posted Aprl 27, 2025...

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Categories: child, childhood, christmas, sleep,

Premium Member colors
colors
 
when with you
i can retreat to some place
normally reserved for childhood,
singing out-of-key songs
and playing for a brief moment
like a child with no yesterday
to create...

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Categories: color, love, passion,

Study Talks
Study Talks


Maths, Science, English, Hindi,
Sr. Newton why u discovered gravity? , 
Formulas and experiments, 
books took our brain on rent

Day or night root and Square...

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© Stary Moon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 10th grade, childhood, middle

A Brother
I think I hear whispers floating through my mind,
It's the voice of someone I held dear-
I remember the days when games were the only stress...

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Categories: angst,


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