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# Childhood Dreams
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/childhood-dreams/
- Published: 2022-11-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: childhood dreams -- the baby crescent luminous and incandescent swarmed by starry fireflies -- day will come she'll realize they're as distant as the moon, and that day, it'll come too soon always wishing she was stil...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

childhood dreams -- the baby crescent  
luminous and incandescent  
swarmed by starry fireflies -- day will come she'll realize  
they're as distant as the moon, and that day, it'll come too soon  
always wishing she was still sitting on that windowsill

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