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Childhood Tanka Poems

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

Premium Member His Grave
snow covered gravestone
monument to lost childhood
cold harsh memories
abandoned hope, love and dreams
never a Christmas blanket
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Categories: dark, emotions, feelings, sad,

Premium Member - Autumn Reverie -
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Categories: autumn, childhood, dream, memory,
Premium Member Ambient and Kind
season of fall kindles treetops
vivid hues are chattering
perfect temperature
ambient and kind marries to 
the colors of vivid childhood dreams...

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Categories: autumn, october, seasons,
Thunderclap
"Thunder is the sound of heavens clapping."
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Categories: childhood, fear, sound,
Bones Ache Yet Heart Sings
Once upon a time 
when I was a child of three   
looking at the stars 
and whispering to the moon,  
I sang...

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Categories: appreciation, childhood,

Premium Member A December Memento
*Image of Our 1969 fuel-generated home that replaced the unpowered memento, but later lost to lava in 1990.

a december memento

dark-trimmed christmas tree
leans upon slanted floorboards
in...

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Categories: childhood, christmas, imagery, meaningful,
Premium Member Determined Memories
Hot days at the beach
sunshine on lavender skies
Frolics of childhood
Moments captured in golden
with colors, laughter and song

Soon thoughts come calling
with sand castle memories
in a dance...

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Categories: beach, childhood, fun, memory,
Premium Member Child Performers
“recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, live breezes blown..”
    Quote by _ Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Categories: 5th grade, allegory, appreciation,
Premium Member Repossessing Reality
"recently scenes of early life have stolen 
      into my mind, like breezes blown ..."
      Quote...

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Categories: allusion, life, memory,
Premium Member Childhood Nostalgia
Childhood Nostalgia

Little kid at heart
Still wishes on dusk's first star
Rides on cloud ships
Recalls games of innocence
Sandcastles and tree houses.

8-30-22
Contest Childhood Nostalgia
Sponsor: JCB Brul...

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Categories: childhood,
Premium Member Dandelion Wishes
Those innocent days!
Fistful of eons ago,
The good times did roll.
Fun at neighborhood playground...
Blowing dandelion fluffs.



Submitted for...
Childhood Nostalgia Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by JCB Brul
Date written: 08/29/2022...

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Categories: childhood, memory, nostalgia, remember,
Premium Member Sight For Sore Eyes
Milky Way dream spots 
and other-worlds engaged me 
this earthbound urchin
science fiction plots might stir
a pure childhood fantasy 

But golden aura 
folks can sense that...

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Categories: care, celebration, character, child,
Premium Member Childhood Nostalgia
I stop when I see

blackberries on the vine

memories of pies

aromas in the kitchen

Mother in her best apron...

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Categories: childhood, remember,
Premium Member Her Heart Still Beats
My sister and I 
She was five and I was eight 
Walking home from school 
About a mile from our house 
Bang! She got hit...

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Categories: childhood,
Play
warmed earth from blue skies 
falling down flat in long grass 
my whole self laughing
we had the best fun playing 
hide and seek in hay...

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Categories: childhood, nostalgia,

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