Girl Princess Poems

Seems it's a story
Of a girl always near-death
Through every attempt,
The loveliest metaphor,
A lie even I saw through....

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Children's Poems III

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Picturebook Princess
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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Inez is hostile that she has to dress up for a prissy afternoon tea.
They braided hair and stuffed her into a gown designed by Lady...

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                       Every day...

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Empathetic Light

Lady Diana, the exquisite Princess of Wales.
A heroine now in hundreds of tales.

An accomplished pianist at Buckingham Palace.
A hopeful ballerina, a kindergarten teacher.

A radiant...

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I …

unlock the front door
walk across the sill and
into the house
like countless times before
look around quickly
no sight of you
“Pretty Girl!” I yell
in that silly, high,...

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Every Girl looked at me with envy 
As I move with grace and perfection 
But they don’t know my story
Or the life I live in...

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Flattered... my name meaning a Princess of ancient times, 
In the state of Malawa, where temple-bells rang chimes,
Bard, Kalidasa, composed in Sanskrit an epic great
About...

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it is quite hard to believe that a whole forest
a castle and all the servants were petrified
just because a crazy old lady doomed a girl
to...

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Small tiara, beautiful girl
So much to learn yet also to bare
Burdens pushed on to young but the mountain to climb will have the greatest outcome
While...

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Kimberly, my pretty brunette
With eyes of wild lynx,
She reassures me, she is a girl from the Bush
She saw snakes
Slip into his bed,
She saw kangaroos
Walk into...

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Every six turns of the moon
A journey to the girl I take.
I leave behind my safe cocoon
Into the noise and into the fake.

The pungent smell...

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Little princess in satin shoes and dress
Curtain rises as she makes her debut,
Important attendees are me and you
She has been afraid of making a mess
Dancing...

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Inspired By Connie Marcum Wong's Poem "Dreams Of India"


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Majesty and Grace, Duty and Forbearance,
Yet who was the woman behind the smile,
A mother, wife whose youthful preference
To live a simpler life among the rolling...

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