Childhood. | Teen Ink
  1. Home
  2. Poetry
  3. Free Verse
  4. Childhood.

Childhood.

August 29, 2010
By Orpoe BRONZE, Dublin, Other
More by this author
Orpoe BRONZE, Dublin, Other
4 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
As I write highly civilised human beings fly overhead, trying to kill me.

View profile

What’s there to learn, when
All we learn we know from
Younger years, when the world
Was flat and the people in it were
Perceived to be gods?

And how could you be blamed for
Something you could not control when
An obtuse mother didn’t have a
Witch’s crystal ball, and where a jail
Might not have been your only fate
Had a god not forced thoughts
On you or your pink robes?

© Carollynn G., Hawthorne, NY

The author's comments:
I'm doing a History Project for school at the moment, for my Leaving Cert, and whilst reading "The Trials of Oscar Wilde" I found out how Wilde was actually dressed up in girl's clothes as a child, and this is a run on sentence, and that fact obviously must have affected his homosexual nature when he was older. So the poem is about how your childhood affects your adulthood, and the second stanza uses Wilde as an example.
Post a comment
Submit your own

Similar Articles

Previous Next
Poetry
Brother
By Anonymous
Poetry
The Death Sentence
By Chris Shu BRONZE
Fort Lee, New Jersey
Chris Shu BRONZE, Fort Lee, New Jersey
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
View profile
Poetry
Lost now found
By BarrelRacer GOLD
Huber Heights, Ohio
BarrelRacer GOLD, Huber Heights, Ohio
10 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
Bring The Challenge or Eat My Dust.

View profile
Poetry
That Dreary Day
By jessicaah GOLD
Huber Heights., Ohio
jessicaah GOLD, Huber Heights., Ohio
12 articles 17 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. "

View profile
Poetry
you see me
By XxUnforgivenLovexX SILVER
Des Moines, Iowa
XxUnforgivenLovexX SILVER, Des Moines, Iowa
6 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
to be or not to be that is the question

View profile
Poetry
A note from your little marionette
By blingblang4eva ELITE
Fayetteville, Georgia
blingblang4eva ELITE, Fayetteville, Georgia
160 articles 0 photos 105 comments
View profile

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 0 comments.