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What in the World Does Freedom Mean
As a little girl, it simply meant, not being in a jail.
Nor being so vicious, like pulling a cat’s bushy taul,
It meant summer vacations, and sharing our toys.
In those days, when it was OK to...
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Categories:
america, beautiful, childhood, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Regret Worming InHeading towards the tall trees in the distance
I start to have a feeling in the pit of my stomach
It’s a feeling I couldn't seem to ignore…hunger
So I headed to the ground to rectify...
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Categories:
childhood, dark, family, fear,
Form: Free verse
Child's PlayLet life trickle out,
the hour,
I want to play,
the great pretender,
one last time,
before I have to hail Mary,
to bring back the day,
and say,
how silly we've been.
...
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Categories:
anxiety, child, childhood, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Cheery JoyJoy,
Like shouts
Of children
On the playground,
Or the last school day
when the bell rings, "school's out!"
Like a new baby's first cry,
Or your sigh when he sleeps and dreams,
Or the crowd's cheers at your first...
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Categories:
baby, baseball, childhood, joy,
Form: Etheree
Palindrome LimerickI sleep in each day until *noon,
My *mum says I live on the moon,
If I think a day’s good *deed,
Is to *eye a Facebook feed,
Than to *peep outside of my room....
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Categories:
childhood,
Form: Limerick
Requiem for a Motherless ChildREQUIEM FOR A MOTHERLESS CHILD
Hallelujah….. Hallelujah…..Hallelujah
Leaning on the somewhat-padded kneelers
is a family lined horizontal to the father.
This is as close as they’ve been to each
other since the last show was put on. The
first act...
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Categories:
child abuse, childhood, family,
Form: Free verse
WindedI’m sitting on my lawn chair
Outside the night is cool
I hear the trees swaying
The breeze chills my skin
It knocks on my hippocampus
Am I here or where it blows?
Breeze, you are timeless
From queens to...
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Categories:
childhood, night, nostalgia, star,
Form: Free verse
PART OF ME: A FALLEN CHILDPart of my soul severed by their ruthless oppression, demoralization and exploitation of a frightened and abandoned child.
Part of me drowning in detrimental sorrow as a 10 yr. old coerced by the evilness on the...
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Categories:
childhood, abuse, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse
SVT - the beginning and endPristine walls surround me, as the beeping hurts my ears.
My vision blurs once more, and within moments I'm wheeled somewhere I can only describe as deafening.
A young girl around my age screams as her mother...
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Categories:
9th grade, childhood, health,
Form: Free verse
A Daughters SongIn distance, a daughter's heart does ache,
Mentally wounded by her mother's stake.
Words flung forth, cutting deep within,
Leaving scars unseen, a battle she can't win.
A mother's love should nurture and heal,
But here, a pain that time...
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Categories:
anxiety, childhood, daughter, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The taste of orangesWas it just the juice of oranges?
Was it childish innocence?
Was it just a summer barefoot-song?
Have I swallowed it amiss?
My mouth remembers tasting it -
remembers it was sweet.
Where is the salty flow of tears?
Did sorrow...
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Categories:
childhood,
Form: Free verse
Bridge Day
Tried to get out the door,
Have been to this day before!
Card games were all the rage,
...
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Categories:
12th grade, childhood, community,
Form: Rhyme
Hearts Like FlowersOut of the crack, a life did rise,
A fragile bloom beneath the skies.
No gentle rain, no nurturing hand,
Just broken stones, a barren land.
But still, it fought, it clawed its way,
Toward the...
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Categories:
care, child, childhood, hope,
Form: Free verse
Young OneIn my mind
There lives a child
Scared, trembling
Wounds still bleeding
Young one, I did not wish this fate on you
But the world is cruel
There is no safe place to hide
They will always find you
Young one, do not...
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Categories:
childhood, abuse, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
I Find Her in Everything-A Poem About ChangeI tend to mourn who I used to be,
To think of all the change I have endured–since birth, until now.
I think about how happy I was as a child,
Rocks and sticks were my friends,
I...
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Categories:
childhood, cry, feelings, growing
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Childhood Poems
Read wonderful childhood poetry on the following sub-topics:
bad, celebrating, early, friends, funny, growing up, happy, innocence, lost, memories, nostalgia, trauma, sad,
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