Write a “childhood” poem. This could be a poem about your own childhood or about someone else’s.
POEMS ABOUT CHILDHOOD
Writing about childhood can cover a range of moods from deathly serious to whimsically silly. Plus, there are various entry points as evidenced by Shaindel Beers’ The Children’s War and Other Poems, which offers up several ekphrastic poems based on drawings by children who are in war zones. But there’s also the charming “The Children’s Hour” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the silly “Constipation” by Ronald Wallace, and “The Raincoat,” a bittersweet poem by Ada Limón.