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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.


Premium Member Biography of Marina - a birthday poem for my mum
Marina, Motherina, Baba, Mum!
Reflect upon what your life has become:
Born in Harbin to refugee Russians,
Tossed out by Mao, with mild repercussions.

Aussie girl, country girl, raised...

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Categories: birthday, grandmother, life, mother,



Premium Member I Miss My Childhood Books

Parchment lays open by the fire
as evenings stretch and yawn again,
below my shoulders whispers flow 
through white lace curtains and then rain--
To somewhere near yet...

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Categories: appreciation, books, childhood,

Reflections in my mind's eye


I see their vain eyes, their large soulless eyes,
that glower and twist and torture thy soul.
I feel their tough hands, oft wrapped round my throat,
and...

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Categories: absence, abuse, anxiety, childhood,

Premium Member Facing the Red Sea
As a child, this reoccurring dream haunted.
When I would run from a monster chasing me
Then he'd reach out to grab, I'd fly undaunted.
As time went...

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Categories: childhood,

Premium Member Fourth Floor of Nowhere
Fourth Floor of nowhere- had a back room where
I spent some secret time, in younger days;
a huge- yet empty space above the stair
that led me...

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Categories: childhood, home, memory, surreal,



Premium Member Father
A tradesman’s son and temple secrets die
in sixty nine years, never knowing why.

Contempt delivered their first child perfect,
your childhood gauntlet galvanized neglect.

A mother’s son and...

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Categories: bible, childhood, christian, faith,

Inviting Hills
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
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

A Misummer's Night Dream
Once upon a midsummer’s night,
I dreamed a dream of horses white,
of Billy goats and little fishes-
of dogs and cats and childhood wishes.
I dreamed of a...

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Categories: fantasy,

Bitter Sweet
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
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
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,

Premium Member Distant Things
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
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
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,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things