Short Boyhood Poems

Boyhood to manhood
always following orders
I'm a soldier's son...

Read More

KP hill commune
4 seasons promenade play
wonderland of friends...

Read More

falling back-boyhood
from butterfly to larva
the dark blue mourning...

Read More

THE  CHESTNUT  TREE  BLOOMS  .

BOYHOOD  DREAMS  OF  AUTUMN  GAMES  

WILL  STOOP  TO  CONKER  ....

Read More

    Boyhood pranks
    gave way to thanks

       for the New York Yanks
       and all those franks
   
    
...

Read More

There once was a young man from Kentucky
Who thought himself very lucky
He loaned a sum
to a boyhood chum
and ended being the guy's stucky...

Read More

BOYHOOD UNEARTHED  


       It’s
      cool
  X          X     It’s awesome
X               X    Can I keep it forever...
X  the fort   X

  9/13/2019...

Read More

April 15th was Jackie Robinson Day
My boyhood hero who led the way
Allowing those since
To follow his prints
This spirited man, a pioneer he did play...

Read More

Guess one could say this guy's prolific
Turning out poems in my hieroglyphics
Perhaps misunderstood
Been since boyhood
Sometimes babbling on bout dipsticks...

Read More

Guess one could say this guy's prolific
Turning out poems in my hieroglyphics
Perhaps misunderstood
Been since boyhood
Just babbling on bout nothing specific...

Read More

A flash of light,
a cloud of dust,
a joyous moment
beneath the rust

A hearty vision
with silver streaks,
unmasking boyhood
—in memories deep

(Garrett Hill Pennsylvania: March, 2021)...

Read More

I’ve been a pirate on black seas,
Explorer where the oceans freeze,
A monarch on an opaled throne,
An islander with rings of bone—
Inside the “British Colonies” thick section
Of my boyhood stamp collection....

Read More

That moment when
You find your boyhood heroes
Were not heroes
But just more drunks
Who'd talk your ear off in a bar
Before going outside
To make for themselves
A bed beneath the ground.

..............

For - Jack Kerouac...

Read More

Blues tunes B.B.King sung 
Brilliant tunes on guitar
Boyhood played street corners 
Boisterous on Bayou 
Better World In Summit
Band played Jazz melody
Bright Riley than ever 


Pleiades 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May


10/19/2020...

Read More

He was born young, I mean really young
His hair was curly, fluffy and beige
His skin, for milk and fire a bridge
His eyes, orbs of fiery passion 
Favoured was he by Aphrodite and Adonis
He is he that is moulded by time and endless time of daydream.

Bite Size Poem no48...

Read More

Ocean Waters
Ocean Skies
Ocean waters riding by

Boyhood dreams 
Sailing away
Oh what, Oh what a joyous day

Sunset waters floating by
As dolphins sing a joyous lullaby.

Riding waves
Oh so high
Seeing mermaids swimming through caves
Voices Carrying on the waves...

Read More

I grew up
having never become an adult,
the years to now betray
My body infirm,
my vision impaired,
my hair has turned to gray

I grew old
while living within myself,
false promises to none
Retuning to boyhood
each night in my dreams,
my age still zero-sum

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

Read More

during summertime
          I tucked marbles in round jars
          along with my pranks, my glee-
          naughty in boyhood
          counting each frolic mattered
          till hands kept jars-  to watch girls



          Spin A Sedoka ---Nette Onclaud Contest
          31st Oct 2020...

Read More

Tomorrow they tell tales
Bring back bright boyhood
Dumped deeply in dales
Forest fled for fickle food

Could you clamour clean
Till tomorrow throw them
Last lingering lines lean
We wont wait to weft them

Around ancient anxieties
Ego esconced, embattling
Dull days dead drunk deities
Some senses seared still screaming....

Read More

I wanted to be a cowboy
So I put on a hat
Yet I never learned to ride a horse

I wanted to be a policeman
So I strapped on a toy gun
Yet I was to young to drive a car

I wanted to be a fireman
I put on a yellow coat
Yet I could not walk in the boots

Each one a dream
A young boy's fantasy
Yet none of them ended up being me...

Read More

Lemonade and not
Instant as we
Jumped off the
Peer that Summer, 
You. 

With swim trunks
I admired your
Boyhood and I wished
you all the best. 

Until the stage
Came and we acted
our way through
Deception. 

But that was our
Only choice, love. 

And the woods
Caused a dog bite
and we put it down. 

But that was our 
Only choice....

Read More

Into a frail boyhood,
The moment seizes us
More than we grasp
Its shady edges.
Little by little,
We undress the bruised knees
And the warm wounds
To the grown-up day
That winks at the kites.
Take one handful of bitterness
And some silver frowns
Throw them into the face 
Of the undimmed wheel
And the splashes of summer laughter....

Read More

AN ORGANIC CHILDHHOD (1940'S STYLE)
School was out,
vacation touched our gate,
long days,bedtimes late;
time,routine we relegate

Bird nesting,climbing trees,
building dens,adults unseen,
picnics and make-believe;
imagination-filtered dreams

Unsupervised,wandering free,
adventures sans boundary,
no cares,no chores;
natural boyhood to the core...

Read More

A familiar

Roadway suggesting

Stories associated

With a past

And a boyhood

Character in what

Seems happening

Not then and 

Not now...

(On other platforms I have posted a photo accompanying this poem.  Poetry Soup could greatly improve the impact of poetry submissions by providing an easy way to post a photo to accompany the words...)...

Read More

There is a poignancy in boyhood...
The high voice, and ineptitude,
The yearning to be free of mother's strings;
The awkwardness of age fifteen, to wit
A boyish sullenness.

There are some things lost when manhood gained -
And mothers cry on thinking.


----------------------------------------------------------

3/10/2015

Featured poem of the week commencing 8/13/2017...

Read More