Long Poems About Childhood
#childhood
Long poems about childhood. 300 words or more, most recently published poems first.
missjem56
Poem Published
26th Sep 2024 5:41pm
26th Sep 2024 5:41pm
Going Dutch
seem to be reminiscing alot of late. today about the 14 schools i went to, in the space of just 11 years, the first two in Dutch (my favourite, the second Dutch school, i was teachers pet. i know this, as she kept me in a cage at the back of the class!) in reality, i was invited to her house. she was widowed, her husband had been in the Dutch Resistance during WWII, and died at the ands of the Nazi's. she taught me how she made her own butter, and was generally a really lovely woman, that i desperately hoped would adopt me, anything to get away from my family! her name was Mrs Paul...
#childhood
#happiness
#memories #school
#memories #school
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
26th Aug 2024 9:30pm
26th Aug 2024 9:30pm
She never listened to anybody
This was around the time I was 8 or 9 years old.
I was in the 3rd grade.
The teacher's aid always told her and the rest of us not to stand up on the swing.
She always did it anyway.
She never listened to anybody.
I heard she had a terrible upbringing.
She was beaten by her mother for being mischievous and defiant.
Her father would come home when he wanted to.
He was a traveling salesman.
Supposedly he had two mistresses, with families in Texas & Virginia.
I hated her guts because she always used to chase me home from school, pull my hair...
I was in the 3rd grade.
The teacher's aid always told her and the rest of us not to stand up on the swing.
She always did it anyway.
She never listened to anybody.
I heard she had a terrible upbringing.
She was beaten by her mother for being mischievous and defiant.
Her father would come home when he wanted to.
He was a traveling salesman.
Supposedly he had two mistresses, with families in Texas & Virginia.
I hated her guts because she always used to chase me home from school, pull my hair...
#acceptance
#childhood
#funny
#nonfiction
#school
123 reads
8 Comments
LostViking
Lost Viking
Lost Viking
Poem Published
24th Aug 2024 3:39pm
24th Aug 2024 3:39pm
Death of a Child
The sun had just begun its descent, casting a warm glow over the coast of the Black Sea in Ukraine. The day had been calm, the kind of deceptive tranquility that often preceded a storm. The beach, with its golden sand and gentle waves, was a stark contrast to the turmoil that had taken over the country.
The young girl appeared suddenly, a blue dress fluttering against the backdrop of the shore. She was young, her legs carrying her with the determination of one who still believed in the possibility of escape, of survival.
As she ran, her face was etched with...
The young girl appeared suddenly, a blue dress fluttering against the backdrop of the shore. She was young, her legs carrying her with the determination of one who still believed in the possibility of escape, of survival.
As she ran, her face was etched with...
#childhood
#death
#teens #war
#teens #war
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Oohloulala
Loulou
Loulou
Poem Published
7th Aug 2024 10:46pm
7th Aug 2024 10:46pm
14
You have questions I don’t have the answers to.
I’ve as much of an idea on how to control our moods as I do on conjuring the sun at night.
And despite my best intentions and trying to help, I often can’t figure it out for myself, so here we are, two peas in a pod, not wanting to belong, but surviving.
I think it’s important you recognise this.
That problems this big can’t be fixed with a wish and a kiss.
The journey, transforming through adolescence from kid, is quite simply, life changing.
Remember when you were little and I said “these...
I’ve as much of an idea on how to control our moods as I do on conjuring the sun at night.
And despite my best intentions and trying to help, I often can’t figure it out for myself, so here we are, two peas in a pod, not wanting to belong, but surviving.
I think it’s important you recognise this.
That problems this big can’t be fixed with a wish and a kiss.
The journey, transforming through adolescence from kid, is quite simply, life changing.
Remember when you were little and I said “these...
#childhood
#motherhood
#teens
190 reads
5 Comments
LostViking
Lost Viking
Lost Viking
Poem Published
7th Aug 2024 2:12pm
7th Aug 2024 2:12pm
Growing Up With Eleanor
In a small farming community close to Alton, Iowa, there was a boy with a heart full of dreams and eyes that saw the whole world in one soul. Her name was Eleanor, a girl who he watched as she danced through the stages of life.
As a child Eleanor’s laughter filled the air like music, and her feet moved with the grace of falling leaves. The boy watched from afar, admiring rhythmic sway of her form as she danced on the nimble legs of a young colt. Even then, he knew there was something magical about the girl who twirled in grain fields under the sun's approving gaze.
As...
As a child Eleanor’s laughter filled the air like music, and her feet moved with the grace of falling leaves. The boy watched from afar, admiring rhythmic sway of her form as she danced on the nimble legs of a young colt. Even then, he knew there was something magical about the girl who twirled in grain fields under the sun's approving gaze.
As...
#childhood
#love
#teens
147 reads
2 Comments
KrumblyKrumb16
Poem Published
28th Jul 2024 2:59pm
28th Jul 2024 2:59pm
Not a poem, but a song - "Children Chase the Night and All That Comes With It":
Verse 1:
Oh, weren't we shooting stars,
Flying, dreaming, crashing, burning,
Weren't we a drunken daydream,
Living faster, oh so faster,
Weren't we just children in costumes,
Giggling, kicking, shrieking, crying,
Aren't we young pretenders,
Living a life our parents can't afford for us,
Chorus:
I want to live as fast as we can drive into the tangerine sunrise,
And I wan to go down in a haze of glory, smoke and sweat,
I want to live my roaring twenties at the age of just fifteen,
I don't want to grow up yet I'm not the...
Oh, weren't we shooting stars,
Flying, dreaming, crashing, burning,
Weren't we a drunken daydream,
Living faster, oh so faster,
Weren't we just children in costumes,
Giggling, kicking, shrieking, crying,
Aren't we young pretenders,
Living a life our parents can't afford for us,
Chorus:
I want to live as fast as we can drive into the tangerine sunrise,
And I wan to go down in a haze of glory, smoke and sweat,
I want to live my roaring twenties at the age of just fifteen,
I don't want to grow up yet I'm not the...
#childhood
#emptiness
#teens
119 reads
3 Comments
DarkPopPrincess
Poem Published
8th Jul 2024 3:01am
8th Jul 2024 3:01am
Woman Child
When I was a little girl, the teacher would ask us what we wanted to be later on in life. I believe we had to write it on a piece of paper. I remember sometime when I got older, I looked at the piece of paper. To no surprise, I put "artist."
But when I was a little girl, I wanted to be nothing. I never wanted to be like those older than me and supposedly wiser. Having this weird idea that people were made through factories rather than sex, I didn't want to turn out how they were manufactured. Manufactured to be ordinary.
It's also no surprise that my grandpa...
But when I was a little girl, I wanted to be nothing. I never wanted to be like those older than me and supposedly wiser. Having this weird idea that people were made through factories rather than sex, I didn't want to turn out how they were manufactured. Manufactured to be ordinary.
It's also no surprise that my grandpa...
#childhood
#inspirational
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herry_the_poet
Poem Published
20th Jun 2024 3:01am
20th Jun 2024 3:01am
Bridges
I was just flipping through old pictures with my nephew to show him a little of what life was like in the 1980s.
What was so drastically different an experience had I grew up in the 60s?
It's not like anything was new! Everything we lived with, around and used was at least two or three generations old - save for the clothing, vehicles and music.
Of course I'll listen to whatever you've got from this decade, pop rock and nu wave was practically our religion?
Eight bit technology slowly started to creep and our TV tubes were nice and heavy and...
What was so drastically different an experience had I grew up in the 60s?
It's not like anything was new! Everything we lived with, around and used was at least two or three generations old - save for the clothing, vehicles and music.
Of course I'll listen to whatever you've got from this decade, pop rock and nu wave was practically our religion?
Eight bit technology slowly started to creep and our TV tubes were nice and heavy and...
#childhood
#family
#memories
#mother
#sister
150 reads
2 Comments
Maple666
Poem Published
9th Jun 2024 6:25pm
9th Jun 2024 6:25pm
School Lessons
I've been thinking of all the things I learnt at school. Pythagorean theorem I haven’t needed to find the missing side length of a right triangle to find my way but being taught to be kind and considerate even when it’s hard would have been a useful tool to put in my kit bag ready for physical and emotional exercises.
Also to find courage when you need it most whilst lying to your mother when she is dying but telling her everything is going to be fine. You know I did that for the greater good to ease her pain but was its courage that spoke of my weaknesses to appease. I would have...
Also to find courage when you need it most whilst lying to your mother when she is dying but telling her everything is going to be fine. You know I did that for the greater good to ease her pain but was its courage that spoke of my weaknesses to appease. I would have...
#childhood
#death
#emotions
#LifeCycle
#nostalgia
227 reads
2 Comments
toniscales
Lost Girl
Lost Girl
Poem Published
21st May 2024 00:57am
21st May 2024 00:57am
Pictures of Childhood Final Part
#childhood
#father
#memories #sadness
#memories #sadness
96 reads
6 Comments
Pinkdreams
Poem Published
19th May 2024 11:33pm
19th May 2024 11:33pm
Ocean Reef
Ocean Reef had mangroves
swampy low trees in the Florida Keys
Ocean Reef had horseflies the size of baby shoes
a lagoon with porpoises named Candy and Cesar
my friend David and I swam with
but then we had to get out
once a big blue bubble floated past me
Portuguese man o' war
Fortunate childhood
Fortunate near miss
Ocean Reef had golf carts
for navigating the sizeable property
kids could drive them
once they turned 12
I preferred to be a daydreamy passenger
Ocean Reef
had a landing strip
for...
swampy low trees in the Florida Keys
Ocean Reef had horseflies the size of baby shoes
a lagoon with porpoises named Candy and Cesar
my friend David and I swam with
but then we had to get out
once a big blue bubble floated past me
Portuguese man o' war
Fortunate childhood
Fortunate near miss
Ocean Reef had golf carts
for navigating the sizeable property
kids could drive them
once they turned 12
I preferred to be a daydreamy passenger
Ocean Reef
had a landing strip
for...
#beach
#childhood
#travel
188 reads
10 Comments
toniscales
Lost Girl
Lost Girl
Poem Published
18th May 2024 9:58pm
18th May 2024 9:58pm
Pictures of Childhood Part 4
#abuse
#bipolar
#childhood
#depression
#memories
84 reads
2 Comments
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