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Childhood Iambic Pentameter Poems

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

Inviting hills by Aniruddha Pathak

O to tune in to good times of childhood—
To re-live gone-by years, not just to brood,
To lighten dust-laden baggage’s dead tare,
To unburden mind of deadwood...

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Categories: childhood,

A Lost Sense of Purpose by bill baggins

Long ago in the short-time lively spring
In the grassy plains of a small island
Came from nonexistence a young sapling 
Nurtured by the love of her...

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Categories: 12th grade, art, best

Again--and Again--and Again by Janice Canerdy

		I was just ten or twelve when I first saw
		him standing in the doorway of my room.
		I was awake--or so I thought. Each time
		he paralyzed...

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Categories: childhood, fear, night,

Bitter Sweet by Curtis Forsythe

Your room remains unchanged-   
just as it was when you went away-
Care Bears and books still arranged,
your dolls all lined up on display....

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Categories: childhood, daughter,

Childish by Al Amin Abdul Moin

The boy, he drowns in it, 
That double-breasted flesh blanket, 
Striped and stylish upside down noose,
It's too hard to get loose.

Death delayed as he sees...

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Categories: child, childhood, growing up,

Wally's Trip to the Mall by Yvonne Uzzell

Wally’s going to the mall today to buy some things he needs,
like toothpaste, soap, and bubble bath, and packs of flower seeds.
The first thing in...

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Categories: adventure, children, family,

Distant Things by Eileen Manassian

I think of distant things and start to cry.
Why must my heart be grieved by many miles?
To place where I was born, I will not...

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Categories: freedom,

Tale Of Inner Child by Nicholas Rush


Chasing your tail forever like a dog
Into the forest, confusion of the fog
A door that’s locked, without a key
Asleep you found it, woke not to...

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Categories: cheer up, childhood, children,

The Old House by Brenda Meier-Hans

Seven generations walked through your door,
Which stood so strong and always welcomed in.
You said goodbye when boys headed to war,
Two soldiers lost to battles they...

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Categories: childhood, family, house, memory,

Three Times The Charm by Darren Mallett

I fell in love once, twice or perhaps thrice; 
And each caused only more pain than the last. 
I fell in love once, twice or...

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Categories: betrayal, break up, desire,

Long In The Tooth by David Fisher

I went to the Dentist to pull a tooth
And patiently sat in the waiting booth.
All the kids stared at my giant bucktooth;
Needless to say they...

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Categories: childhood, humorous,

A Brittle Boquet by tom mcmurray

My life has become a brittle bouquet 
Of dead red roses in rapid decay 
And all that I thought one day I could be 
Is...

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Categories: lifelife, lost, life, lost,

Rock-A-Bye by Sandra Hudson

A lullaby vibrates against my cheek,
I feel so loved, and safe, and small, and weak. 
Until the cradle falls, from winds that blow,
That’s one song...

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Categories: childhood

Saying Goodbye by Marisela Castro

Saying goodbye was the last thing I'd do
You were taken from our lives far too soon
My world has changed now that I don't have you
Your...

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Categories: childhood, death, depression, family,

HALLOWEEN WARNING by daver austin

I knew an old woman
Who flew round the Moon
Wore a tall    pointed hat
And rode on a broom

She dressed all in black
Wore arrow-tipped...

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Categories: childhood, fantasy, funnyhalloween, love,

To Depart by Jazer Dela Cruz

a space has been withheld
from above it have been spelled
there made a sacrament of longing,
a promise of ever loving

moments passed by
no one gave a sigh-
they...

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Categories: childhood, children, life,

my papa the rockstar by Megan Lloyd

My Papa's a "Rockstar" but I never saw his show,
     yet people sure would stare at us wherever we would go.
He...

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Categories: childhood, family, sad, me,