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Child Lay Poems

These Child Lay poems are examples of Lay poems about Child. These are the best examples of Lay Child poems written by international poets.


In your open palm, lay down celestial rivers for me
In your open palm, lay down celestial rivers for me,  
Where the earth ends in a deathless dream,  
From your gaze, as wide...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lay, fantasy,



Soft Rain
Trigger warning, in remembrance to one ending their own life and losing their battle. 

When it softly rains 
I can't help but think, what gentle...

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© Rita Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lay, abuse, child abuse, depression,

Premium Member Nirvana
All we seek is permanent joy,
thus flit about from toy to toy,
no different from a small child,
heart’s desire, both fickle and wild,
wandering thus in delusion,
lost...

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Categories: joy, spiritual,

Premium Member Your Father's Arms
O child, not meant to end this way,
Thy perfect limbs, so disarrayed;
So fearful, wondrous made you are,
Then swept away, but not the scar.
My heart does...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sorrow,

Premium Member Up and Down Side of November
The petrichor of fallen leaves
and coldness of the sun that grieves.
The lovers’ laughter in the wind.
Their purity shows they haven’t sinned.
    ...

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Categories: bird, holiday, humor, love,



Oh God Where Would I Go and What Would I Do Without You
Oh! God where would I go and what would I do without you?
Nowhere at all!  Nowhere at all!
I would be drowning into the deepest...

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Categories: 3rd grade, 4th grade,

Holiday Season
How sweet it was to feel your touch.
Scent of your skin I missed as much.

From far across the world you came.
Alas, you had to leave...

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Categories: absence, daughter, emotions,

Now I Lay Me
Now I lay me down to sleep
In my home that's really sweet
Had three large meals and a snack
There wasn't a hint of any lack
Comfortable shoes...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lay, 7th grade, africa, angst,

Lay Diamond
In ten years maybe
If God will grant my own wish
I'll be seeing you

In ten years maybe
If it's still meant to happen
I'll have you, my child...

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© Vanne Joe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lay, child, family, father son,

Premium Member As I Get Older They Lay Me Down
when I was young my mother gave me to suck on her breast
It was true blessedness, gave me nutrients
She bore this child in wedlock and...

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Categories: lay, appreciation, assonance, beautiful, bereavement,

Premium Member Jean-Louis Barrault As I Lay Dying
Heavy storm was sweeping dark Paris streets
Lit with dim lights that dreary November night 
With ghostly shadows lurking in the corners
Cold wind dancing with dirty...

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Categories: lay, allusion, art, death, french,

Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 4
The Lay of The Best Man - Part 4

I ask you this: Have you ever known a man to ‘buckle under stress’?
Or have you never...

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Categories: bullying, character, corruption, discrimination,

Lay Me Down
Crystal eyes that reflect but never see
Heart of glass, warm but frozen still 
Unspoken cries of a child unseen
Spirit untouched
Taken hostage by an iron will
Unmasked...

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Categories: lay, abuse, dark, grief,

Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 3
Ask your friend, neighbour or even a stranger newly-met
Have they ever been damaged by a ‘trust’ ….now turned ‘regret’?
Most men, if not all, have fashioned...

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Categories: abuse, corruption, earth, i

Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 5
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Five


Have you heard about the bespectacled man who wore his glasses to bed?
Because when he awoke mornings...

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Categories: humanity, men,


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