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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.


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



posted on April 27, 2025...

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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,

Sun Off Kilter Tanning The Wheat
Sun off kilter tanning the wheat—
The crows broke into her cold fast,
As breeze stir dropped its sweetness by
The dark golden, her soupy flesh.

From childhood not...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summer, angst, bird, dark, introspection,

Barefoot On The Edge Of Innocence
barefoot on the edge of innocence, 
laughter spilling like petals  
in a summer breeze. 

eyes glinting with mischief,  
a wildflower in a garden...

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Categories: summer, beauty, child, childhood, corruption,

Childhood Love
Childhood Love (Villanelle)

I remember that glorious day when we were young,
We played together and danced through time and space,
If only I expressed my loving thoughts...

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Categories: summer, 8th grade, beauty, child,

Premium Member Keeping a Cool Head



Now the top of my head’s pretty cool,
but I need all of me in the pool
   on this blazing hot day.
  ...

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Categories: childhood, school, summer,

Premium Member ennui
Being back home, in my childhood room is like climbing into a time capsule. I left for college quickly, back in ‘21 and I’ve only...

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Categories: summer, friendship, home, house, humor,

Premium Member From a child to an adult
Children who played so boundlessly
Out in the dew-fresh meadows
When the summer sun bathed life in chaos
And their hearts yearned so endlessly

Adults who sought so endlessly
In...

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Categories: summer, appreciation, sorrow,

summer evening and death
A summer evening and death

I sat in my study thinking about death
not in an abject way, but I'm 86 
and thinking if death has any meaning
and...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summer, age, assonance, break up,


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