Growing Up Poems - Examples of all types of growing up poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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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
IncarnateI
There you are in your white dress
Marching in for all to see
A little taller than the rest
Incarnate joy and purity
Your father looking on with pride
As you come into your place
He’s reveling in this...
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Categories:
growing up, best friend, birthday, family,
Form: Ode
God in my life
“How desperately I need God in my life.”
Inner Self replies… ‘Uhhh, need?
Perhaps you truly mean...
I need to find the God already in my life.’
“Ahhh... better.”...
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Categories:
adventure, god, growing up,
Form: Free verse
A biographical poemLife is like a bottle of buckfast
Sticky sweet but in the end its harsh
Take too much gets you ed fast
LIfes not for the faint of heart heres my bars
I was...
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Categories:
growing up,
Form: Free verse
Divine MagnetismI am holding your eyes, feeling your words,
The waves gently overwhelm me, coaxing,
Pulling me under and luring me in.
Recede, leaving me freezing, shivering.
I am holding your eyes. If you were wise,
You would hold me. Feel...
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Categories:
growing up, break up, conflict, crush,
Form: Sonnet
LILYIn a somber house on Maple Street, where shadows creep,
Lived Lily, a child, in silence she'd weep.
With every creak of the floorboards at night,
She'd hold her breath, gripped by fright.
Mr. Johnson, her father, a looming...
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Categories:
growing up, anger, child, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Milestone a daughter's 16th birthdayToday marks a milestone
Highlighting life's style shown
A classy, sophistication few women have ever known
An aura shining brightly that is all her own
No longer a child, into a woman she has grown
All the beauty, grace, &...
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Categories:
growing up, appreciation, birthday, childhood, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Milestone a daughter's 16th birthdayToday marks a milestone
Highlighting life's style shown
A classy, sophistication few women have ever known
An aura shining brightly that is all her own
No longer a child, into a woman she has grown
All the beauty, grace, &...
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Categories:
growing up, appreciation, birthday, childhood, deep,
Form: Rhyme
FunRunning the Hall
first, it depends
who they'll call
tripping those bookends
unleashing them savages
having your companions
between losing-it challenges
nothing-less assuring all
check and balances...
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Categories:
growing up, celebration, crazy, fun, games,
Form: Other
Specific Types of Growing Up Poems
Definition | What is Growing Up in Poetry?