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Childhood Summer Poems

These Childhood Summer poems are examples of Summer poems about Childhood. These are the best examples of Summer Childhood poems written by international poets.


When Smiles Melt Too
The pavement claims ice cream from little sticky fingers. Cries echo through the air, tugging at the heartstrings of first-time parents. Turned-out pockets disarmed, everyone...

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Categories: summer, beautiful, childhood, nostalgia, poetess,



Incandescent
noon’s furnace: asphalt shimmers; air—thick, slow—
cracks open. cicadas drill through stagnant gold.
a sprinkler’s hiccup-hiss: the pavement’s glow
un/curls in steam. the hydrant’s shout: uncontrolled.

children shriek!—a liquid...

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Categories: summer, meaningful, metaphor, poetry, symbolism,

Childhood Summers
I loved my childhood summers
In the mountains, where we stayed
In a small, one-bedroom bungalow 
Where memories were made.

We didn’t mind the lack of space;
Outside were...

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Categories: childhood, memory, summer,

Premium Member How I Spent My Summer
When summer's over, ask what I did.
Did I visit Paris or Madrid?
Nope, I flew a red kite,
admiring its swift flight,
while I skipped and jumped just...

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Categories: childhood, fun, summer,

I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025
I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.

How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit...

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Categories: summer, cool, environment, humorous, june,



Premium Member Under the summer sky, where the sun casts its rays like a skilled painter
Under the summer sky, where the sun casts its rays like a skilled painter,
I find myself in the memory of childhood, where every moment was...

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Categories: summer, fantasy,

Premium Member THOSE DAYS ARE GONE
remember when we 

          slept >< 

         ...

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Categories: summer, beach, childhood, freedom, fun,

Premium Member Strawberries and cream
strawberries and cream
takes me back to childhood days
taste of summer dreams

...

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Categories: summer, appreciation, childhood, fruit, memory,

Premium Member Memories of Eleventh Summer
School grinds on.  It seems like hell.
Last day, then summer, and we're free. 
An angel sings, rings the school bell. 

We race down the...

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Categories: childhood, summer,

floweresque
At 13, I used old tissue paper
	to craft my best friend her wedding veil—
	a drapery, thrown together in a flurry,
	taping together parchment scraps, fragile and...

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Categories: summer, 12th grade, child, childhood,

Summer Never Lasts
what if what we had was temporary
a momentary glance of happiness
of freedom
of joy 
of reckless youth
a time of love and carelessness

maybe that was where our...

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Categories: summer, childhood, friendship, growing up,

Summer Rain
The sun rises up,
Then the clouds move in.
Heavy with drops,
Soon the rain would begin.
It’s wild at first,
With lightning flashes,
Then the thunder,
With booms and clashes.
It moves...

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Categories: summer, childhood, fun, nature, nostalgia,

Premium Member The Outside Dunny

In the fifties
it was the suburban icon
that survived the start 
of the renovation phase
and still graced the backyards 
of most houses in the neighborhood,
the ubiquitous...

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Categories: summer, childhood, dad, fear, nostalgia,

Premium Member Satin Summer

Satin summer sundays.
With the young children.
Picnicking in the shade 
Nana takes them to swim.

Watching while they play.
There growing so big.
Those memories we've  made.
Are, a...

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Categories: summer, appreciation, childhood, memory,

Premium Member summer game
thru the middle of June
    when the fireflies swoon
      and the warmth of the day lingers on
...

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Categories: summer, analogy, children, insect, wisdom,


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