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A dogs unconditional loveMy childhood was meant for innocent adventures,
Climbing trees and chasing dreams, not living traumatic ventures.
But you stole that blissful promise with your heinous deeds,
Planting seeds of fear only a shattered soul...
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Categories:
growing up, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
I Find Her in Everything-A Poem About ChangeI tend to mourn who I used to be,
To think of all the change I have endured–since birth, until now.
I think about how happy I was as a child,
Rocks and sticks were my friends,
I...
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Categories:
growing up, childhood, cry, feelings, growing
Form: Free verse
MayA gust of wind she is
Flowing through the fields
Flowers bloomed each one she touches
A beauty only month of may yields
Grateful for the memories we hold
For each laugh and each fight
At every phase of...
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Categories:
growing up, appreciation, best friend, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
for your ides only 01
Categories:
growing up, character, education, fate, growing
Form: Senryu
16-5-2024Repeating lies
That’s juvenile
Behaviour from the soul
Be assured
The smiles formerly the goal
Evil eyes obscured
Expect excuses but the reality’s my own
While the fire grows afar let’s sit around a while...
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Categories:
age, change, growing up,
Form: Free verse
The Authentic II cannot see untainted,
The world without the warping windows.
I fail to make, for I am merely
An illusion of inconsistencies
Stolen from society.
I wonder how open a mind can be before its brains
start to
spill.
The buttons on...
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Categories:
age, future, growing up,
Form: Alliteration
An Utter Lack of PantsMy strung-out limbs grow like plants
Head in the clouds, toes with the ants
Branches sprout, leaves strewn about,
Now I’m walkin’ ‘round with an utter lack of pants
My eyes swirl like big lollipops
Cogs and wheels,...
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Categories:
age, growing up, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
change, courage, growing up,
Form: Cinquain
Cherished by MomIn you, dear Mother, my pride resides,
No hate could ever in my heart abide.
Nine months within your loving embrace,
You nurtured me with boundless grace.
You taught me to speak, to write, to stand,
Guided me with a...
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Categories:
growing up, 11th grade, appreciation, grandmother,
Form: Ode
The dayA day full of cigarettes
A day full of riding,
Oh what a calmness
My face was full with dirt
And mind with lust,
I'm alone here
Like nobody else,
Living every hour
I was mine
Cause it's only mine and mine..????
...
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Categories:
growing up, addiction, allegory, anxiety, black
Form: Free verse
River's Magic
I learned to love the river
waves lapping ‘neath our boat
Glint of sun set the scene a-sparkle
as over the waters we’d float
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Categories:
father son, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Journeys
A baseball glove lies on its back
in a trunk of items
once fresh and youthful
now discarded for
love and marriage
perhaps a stroller
whose blue-eyed
...
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Categories:
baby, baseball, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Let's do itCloudy Hurricane
The tides have beads of value
Bungee jump and pick...
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Categories:
growing up, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
The PassengerBorn in December on a cold winter’s day
I was baptised a Christian without any say
My life given direction before I could walk
A school then chosen before I could talk
I went through communion and was soon...
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Categories:
growing up, dark, depression, farewell, growing
Form: Rhyme
Motheredopposite the I,
is where i reside.
endure and bide,
endlessly.
You see My person,
nod at this version,
never question My identity,
You're right in me, not entirely.
Your gaze cant see,
everything outside Me,
ever watching you,
unaware I am two.
observe me please,
ease my...
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Categories:
childhood, depression, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Growing Up Poems
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