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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.

Broken promises

Promise me your hands will reach out
Resilient attachment starts in childhood
When the brain has colic outside the womb
A mother’s unconditional love soothes worries
When a birthday...

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Categories: addiction, father, mother, mother

God's LOVE is free


It’s simple as simple can be.
With a loving heart, a tender dream,
She welcomed me into this world,
Promising to give me a love that I will...

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Categories: appreciation, mother, mothers day,

Mother's Day

What is a mother?
Is she merely a caregiver?
Someone to decide?
Someone who provides?
Is she just one piece of the puzzle,
The puzzle of a life…
Does she shine...

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Categories: appreciation, mothers day,

Surviving co-dependence

I’m done with co-dependence or so I say
I’ve burnt so many effigies for others
I’m the giver in my codependency
The taker burns all my oxygen 
She...

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Categories: divorce, father, love, mother,

Beautiful Girls

I see the way your body dances through the halls of our home, how dirty you are. dirty little girl.
My teacher said this is not...

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Categories: abuse, angst, child abuse,

The Factory

As a child I was warned
that if I looked at the light
for too long it would send
me blind and yet
the stuttering flash
and eerie blue light...

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Categories: anxiety, childhood, dream, fear,

1st Camp Out


     Winding up the sheet,
     I just Couldn't sleep!
     Dragged the sheet outside,
...

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Categories: 1st grade, 2nd grade,

Universal Remote


I wish I had a remote to control my thoughts 
It would be great to change the volume, mute or source
If only I could change...

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Categories: deep, devotion, feelings, mental

Crossroads

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Categories: confusion, fate, lonely,

I’m hungry

In a time where innocence should reign,
This little girl faced trials, her heart in pain.
Her upbringing, not necessarily the worst, I’d say,
But love and stability...

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Categories: abuse, anger, betrayal, child,

Childhood

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Categories: childhood,

When Silence Speaks

When silence speaks in broken dialects, to harmonize hurt, 
I ponder, would the sky unravel synonyms for serenity, 
amidst piercing thunder that strikes through raining...

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Categories: abuse, dark,

Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper

Mein kampf synonymous as a blooper

Writer of these words,
a former Lower Providence inhabitant,
who dwelled within darkest depths
of Dante Alighieri's inferno
for most of his outlandish, impish,
and...

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Categories: 12th grade, abuse, adventure,

Gander through time

Luminous miscellaneous adorn my crown,
Frills and strawberries,
Thorny circlet dusted with a light layer of twinkle, 
As my eyes hysteric with confusion 
muse on this loss....

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Categories: 11th grade, childhood, family,

In the heart of the country, a veil of mystery and melancholy floats

In the heart of the country, a veil of mystery and melancholy floats,
And threading along the leaf of life, these methods seem a sinister symphony.
Open...

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Categories: fantasy,