Child Poems - Examples of all types of child poetry to share and read.ren. This list of child poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Adults often write about children and remember with fascination their childhood. Thee poetic works focus on children and the things unique to them including nursery rhymes, funny lyrics, and rhyming child poems. Read
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If Only You KnewI was lying in bed, unable to sleep,
Thinking of troubles I'd seen in life, so deep.
If I could give counsel to the younger Dave,
From him, so many disasters, I could still save.
Somewhere, in bed, many...
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Categories:
age, child, fantasy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Boy With An EyeBetwixt the vibrant threads of a busy bazaar,
A foreigner's gaze seize on a singular star,
A boy with one eye, an enigma raid,
Their dialogue begins, a journey to trade.
"Your salesmanship shines," the foreigner inquires,
"Does schooling attend...
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Categories:
boy, child abuse, courage,
Form: Epic
Broken promisesPromise me your hands will reach out
Resilient attachment starts in childhood
When the brain has colic outside the womb
A mother’s unconditional love soothes worries
When a birthday missed slices the cord
Like two neurons missing a connection
Like a...
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Categories:
child, addiction, father, mother, mother
Form: Free verse
I'm TrappedI'm trapped inside a maze that's my own head
I don't know if I'd rather find a way out or be dead
Twists and turns, memories that burn
Burn the perfect picture of someone I thought I knew
I'm...
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Categories:
abuse, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Mother's Child-Energy
We were in the upper room
Energy
Mother's child
In communication
He supplanted placing mine spiritual seed planting in the heavens
Me the placed seed
Mother's child
Desending planted from grace
Placed in a womb
She receives seedling fleeting
Spiraling...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, birth, child,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful GirlsI see the way your body dances through the halls of our home, how dirty you are. dirty little girl.
My teacher said this is not what we do. Mom tells me this is bad.
They’re wrong....
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Categories:
abuse, angst, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Conversations with my Son
He’s got plans to meet his friend,
And he’s putting things in his pockets, his wallet, his keys, a set of dice.
‘I can’t forget these dice’ he says to me.
‘I did not know you had a...
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Categories:
child, funny, humor, mother
Form: Free verse
I’m hungryIn a time where innocence should reign,
This little girl faced trials, her heart in pain.
Her upbringing, not necessarily the worst, I’d say,
But love and stability seemed far far away.
Naive to the world, she sought to...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, betrayal, child,
Form: Free verse
First PoemsNanna traces finger-rhymes around my hand:
tickling poems.
Pictures in my sister’s book
speak poetry, and I want her book
to be mine.
Miss Fernside points to words
beside her drawings
on the easel;
I love Miss Fernside.
First...
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Categories:
child, grandmother, poems, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Fish PartyEach goldfish
is like a birthday candle
of flickering fins;
or under-water sparkles
of sunlit sugar
sprinkled, trickled, rippled.
My face is staring
over the pond;
they gather
for party bags
we call stinky-fish-food,
while cloud-balloons
make funny faces
and float far away.
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Categories:
child, fish,
Form: Free verse
The Sea in my roomAs a child,
with my Nanna,
making the bed -
waves of sheet
crash,
underneath is cool -
dark,
need to breathe,
roll on the carpet-beach,
watch the white-surge
flapping, snapping, falling
up and down
up and down
calming, resting
smelling sunshine.
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Categories:
child, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
A Child’s Night-CaveAt night
In my room
Curtains flap
Scraps of black
Look like bats
Then a snore
And a growl –
‘It’s a bear!’
‘It’s a ghost!’
‘It’s the fridge,’
says Dad.
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Categories:
child, fear, night,
Form: Free verse
The Geese Have Stopped Flying Over
“What’s the matter, little one?"
“The gone gone geese~~no more fun!”
What he meant, I had no clue,
but he surely knew.
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Categories:
bird, child,
Form: Dodoitsu
Backwards Spells of FEAR Part I
so easy to fall, and so hard to break free
somehow as a child I knew
it was as if they knew my name before I had a clue
at 10 reading books about orphans
free from the...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, child, fear,
Form: Free verse
BOAT CHILDRENEach day more arrivals
in small inflatables
escaping from troubles
their homeland far away
they cannot bear to stay
so travel to UK
a risky trip from home ...
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Categories:
child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Child Poems
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