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Nostalgia My Child Poems

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


Premium Member That Was Then, This Is Now
That was then,
When,
I played with a doll,
And used a pretend phone to make a call.
I had a favorite stuffed dog,
And had fun chasing a slimy,...

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Categories: my child, child, growing up, memory,



A Hunger Unfed
from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a...

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Categories: my child, analogy,

We Left Our Childhood Behind
Remember when we used to play
In our backyards every day
We built castles in the sand
And chased each other hand in hand

Remember when we used to...

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Categories: my child, childhood, feelings, friendship, innocence,

Premium Member The Peach Tree
They would ripen all at once
under a hot sun and hang
in a sugary glut only for a day 
or two before starting to spoil. 
I...

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Categories: my child, child, god, nostalgia, sin,

Narrow Margin
- in those moments, it shines.
The nostalgia of an upside down
world glinting up through hourglasses of years,
a mark impressed upon flesh; a scar harbouring
simple childhood...

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Categories: my child, analogy,



Child Hymn
Fly in unicorn wing
Oh! 'lil child playful thinking
Old song rhyme to sing....

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Categories: my child, child, imagination, nostalgia, song,

Whispering Trees
There’s no time for poverty
When there’s magic in the air
So long as there’s food 
There’s no need to care,
And a watertight roof 
Over a persons...

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Categories: my child, appreciation, child, memory, nature,

The Surreal Sight
Looking into the yawning chasm
trying to find the gem long lost
The shattered shambles of the sky
in the backscatters of the running river

The surreal sight:
throttles the...

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Categories: my child, anxiety, child abuse, emotions,

Shattered Dreams
Dreams make up our society
Giving us anxiety
When the last hope becomes a lie
Children are told to believe they can fly
But in the end, what wins...

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Categories: my child, child, emotions, extended metaphor,

Pikersville
We were tight — we were thick as thieves 
Only we didn’t quite know it then 
Isn’t it true that a friend in need
Is your...

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Categories: my child, best friend, child, friend,

The Shovel
It’s quite a thing to lay a life to rest,
to place rocks over roots rotten with age,
cover leaves once green with soil, sodden from rain.

Conceived...

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Categories: my child, analogy,

Grass In My Pocket
Don’t you remember? That one time
When we were young and adventurous 
We settled on shared breath between
Pine trees and our neighbors oak
Tugging on leaves like...

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Categories: my child, adventure, best friend, child,

My Hometown
Corn stalks dance
In abandoned fields
          Like wispy ghosts
    Without their husks
As children revel...

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Categories: my child, child, innocence, nostalgia,

Back Porch Haircuts
I let you cut my hair.
Whether you were doing well
Or about to make a fool
Of your only daughter
Completely irrelevant
As I focused on your
Darting nervous eyes
The...

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Categories: my child, 12th grade, child, innocence,

Doll Story Ld
Cinnamon, my childhood doll,
I barely thought of you at all -
of where you went,
or how, or when,
but I was only little then.

Now I'm crying, lost...

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Categories: my child, child, growing up, nostalgia,


Book: Shattered Sighs