Childhood Jealousy Poems

Great love is like a heavenly moment,  
when one's heart will skip a beat.  
Love can come packaged in many boxes,  
some...

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Eager for the future and wistful for the past
Did four year old me know I would envy her so?
Age is not just a number, it...

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The babysitter's little boy bit me.
She suggested he was "jealous."
Jell-Os sounded good.
It seemed he got to be
something that I wasn't,
"the embodiment of Jell-Os,"
colorful and fun,
and...

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There are some who say,
that we were never close.

They are the ones who
made the connections impossible.

When you were born God had smiled,
and I cried.

Because we...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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A new girl in a new state 
began High School knowing noone
Seemed an unlikely trajectory 
She'd be befriended by the sweethearts

Tracy and Jenny, blond peas...

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I can remember as a kid a toy that was popular, that I had called trolls
They were funny little cavemen with colorful hair and eyes...

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You need to clean up your act
You start to over react
With jealousy and lots of rage
You belong inside a cage
Acting wild and unsure
But I have...

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brother elbowing for some attention
an inkling of jealousy
her being too darn cute



AP:  Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on January 8, 2018...

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I cannot help but to envy ballerinas,
Those boisterous bun-heads in bloom,
For they are rubber
And I am wood....

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Phantom of the Opera

   I stand and watch  from my box five
And listen to the most beautiful Nightingale
I could stay awake till...

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What am I supposed to do now
Everyday I fall and crack
I'm a piece of broken wood on an old treehouse
and everything is slipping through my...

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I don’t understand friendship.
Why do people who play as your friends all through your childhood
then turn around and hurt you.
Then turn back around like nothing’s...

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Childhood Envy





Rain bath in open,
Envy those in childhood days,
Skating on wet floor,
Without any clothes put on,
Why have we so much so grown ?






Written December 17th,...

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My husband and I, we are not the jealous sort.
But once in a while a green-eyed monster peeks in.
He comes lurking about to diminish our...

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