Short Second Childhood Poems

befuddled bewildered,
memory muddled;
perplexed then puzzled
as clarity contracts
and cataracts...

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A second childhood

I was given

That bloomed with

love and grace

The darkness of the 

past forgiven

in the love of 

God's embrace.


By Era Thompson
Copyright 05.02.10...

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Spending my day with you
Everything melts away
The trouble we cause
Not acting our age

The adventures we have
The memories created
Jokes only you and I know
Living our second childhood

Then I awake, memories gone
Everything just a dream
My heart sits and aches
Wishing to be with you...

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The falling snow is lovely 
some place else!

I will dance in the snow 
like an old woman
finding her second childhood.

The snow flakes 
are as big and heavy as half-dollars 
moments before turning
into raindrops.

Schizophrenic clouds 
can't decide weather to drop snow
or cry rain.

warm wind
snow angels
fly away 

The first day of spring
seems as far away as you.
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In time we forget
All things end, even memory

Start with a child's mind
Too soon curtains fall
On vivid knowing,
Second childhood ushers

Passage through dry woods
Nothing stays the same,
Such the dilemma then
Of changing seasons

Succumb to forgetting
Eclipse of good sense
Not much to show
For all that knowing

Time oozes away
Gone like the wind




Leon Enriquez
20 March 2016
Singapore...

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Where have those years gone?
In ninth decade when I brood,
They’re here on their own—
As my life’s second childhood—
In memories all marooned!

Wish I’d not grown up,
There were times when I felt so
Finding present tense,
And most of the past perfect,
Old grammar throwing new fact!

Yet, life’s nothing but
Two conflicting emotions,
Endearing passions,
And wiser now I’m to know—
Wise enough to embrace both.
_____________________________
Tanka |01.08.2022|...

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