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.
Finger PrintHe was deeply worried,
A problem lay within,
Buried in the depths of his heart,
Countless slaves in his possession.
He wanted to control
All of them, he...
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Categories:
child, child abuse, childhood,
Ghosts Of UsGone 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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Categories:
beautiful, best friend, betrayal,
my eyes turn back
I …
have courted luck in countless ways
against ragged judgments and self-umbrage
I still draw breaths, counted
and the mirror has been charitable
most I meet deem me forty
(I’m...
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Categories:
analogy, introspection, love,
Tomato Soup
I never liked tomato soup -
that thick slurry of red
in a white bowl - childhood
winters, Friday nights
with a menacing dark
pressing against the window
as...
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Categories:
celebration, childhood, fear, food,
MakhorkaEyes drifting
In waiting,
Silently,
Gazing
In vain,
Despite it,
He enlarged them
Widely opened, as...
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Categories:
allegory, childhood, destiny, loss,
In the depths of the night, when stars tell their story on the vast and eternal skyIn the depths of the night, when stars tell their story on the vast and eternal sky,
she walks like a shadow of light, with steps...
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Categories:
fantasy,
FLYING SWINGSFLYING 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,
SIBLING REMEMBRANCESSIBLING REMEMBRANCES*
In the warm, sunlit corners of our childhood
where laughter spills like marbles across the floor,
I hear the echoes of our shared secrets,
each whispered promise...
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Categories:
12th grade, brother, remember,
Graphite Steps
My soles press soft
into sidewalks. I leave
a trail of graphite steps
They etch out my first sentence—
a diary in crayon, a novel in margins
Time sharpens...
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Categories:
childhood, city, meaningful, memory,
Heartbroken Again and Again~~~ Heartbreaks can give us inner strength
in developing courage, self-growth, self-awareness
and empathy or can break us physically
...
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Categories:
heartbreak, heartbroken, life,
When Smiles Melt TooThe 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,
childhoodwas it really that big of a deal
if we were both just kids
our minds snapped shut like lids
brainwashed by whats bad and good
too scared to...
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Categories:
abuse, age, anger, confusion,
Broken GirlAlcohol to numb the pains.
Cigarettes to taste something other than hate.
Sex to escape the constant loud voices in my head. ...
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Categories:
anxiety, childhood, depression, emotions,
DivorceDo you remember how it felt?
Do you know what it feels like to feel worthless, not enough, to question love?
Do you remember not...
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Categories:
anxiety, childhood, depression, divorce,
Tongue of the ForgottenI speak English—
not because it is mine,
but because it was burned
into the soft clay of my childhood.
They called it brilliance
when I spoke the master's tongue,
and...
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Categories:
education, language,