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Growth Poems | Examples of Growth Poetry

Growth Poems - Examples of all types of growth poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for growth.
Premium Member When Children Play
When children play Imagination, their fast friend, takes them on grand adventures. Adults observe their little ones, cherishing those formative times when children play. Kids become heroes when they join hands with Imagination, their fast friend. Let’s encourage kids to use Imagination, which takes them...Read the rest...
Categories: children, growth, imagination,
Form: Verse



Premium Member When Optimism Smiles
If you dig six feet under and then go under the coffin and right before you get to hell you will find what's left of my smile I once wore my smile like the joker dripping...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, confidence, growth, happiness,
Form: Blank verse
My Divorce
I still remember that day as if it were today The day papers were served, the day I officially walked away One may think that on that day I would have been sad But contraire monsieur, on that...Read the rest...
Categories: growth, break up, celebration, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
2024
It's eight After so much learning and healing in seven Now is the time to elevate So go and create Something beautiful and great Please, don't procrastinate. Now is the time to illustrate Then go demonstrate Your gifts and worth are yours to...Read the rest...
Categories: growth, adventure, blessing, confidence, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Soup is Piping
The soup boils and spits out at me Reminding me of the past. Steam builds as it circulates around the fans Lurching forward, with a spoon, I taste a small droplet of the sizzling delight Only to find myself reminded...Read the rest...
Categories: growth, caregiving, change, dream, for
Form: Free verse



A Pearl
Circular and square. And a little glimmer Of peace - Or agony. Cool beneath the waters. A small touch Of green - Or sunny coral. Clanking in mine ears - But beauty in these eyes - Through cornea and through …Retina. A painfully...Read the rest...
Categories: creation, fate, green, growth,
Form: Free verse
Beyond Rote
If we crammed their heads with facts and dates, Ignoring sparks and curious states, Would learning ever truly take root? Children, not clay, for us to sculpt and boot. Tolerance, not rote, a lesson grand, Understanding hand in accepting hand. "Unfold"...Read the rest...
Categories: care, children, education, growth,
Form: Narrative
guilt
guilt. Guilt guilt my very bodily make up my life’s Romance after romance. Every roadmap has led to this single moment dark, black sludge that starts slowly at the toes slowly makes its way over...Read the rest...
Categories: growth, deep, emotions, feelings, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Unknown Growth
It seemed like mistakes took away my sails I felt worthless, overlooked, and destined to fail Life is what you make of it, a fortune cookie reads Just another analogy overlooked, indeed. To tangle...Read the rest...
Categories: growth, confusion, for teens, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Believe
Believe After all this agony, I still believe. Though my spirit suffered, I found relief. I seek to rescue, Cause all these pains are addictive. After all this torture, I still believe. Words cannot express how it is vindictive, The way life...Read the rest...
Categories: birth, feelings, future, growth,
Form: Ekphrasis
Man's Gift
It can travel upward and inward or downward and outward Once bestowed this gift, man must decide whether to go forward or backward Whether to go back or forth many men will never ponder or know...Read the rest...
Categories: blessing, devotion, god, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Act of Defiance
The pain you wish to inflict, Is your quandary as I resist. Grovel, you demand with hate. But my resolve hardens and will not abate. You capture my past for all to see. But you...Read the rest...
Categories: growth, anti bullying, bullying, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
My Experience With The Runes
I did write poems on each Rune. The Frissian futhorc I assume, Each new rune lesson learnt- a boon. Art and poems I showed to kin. Kin stated poems and art a win, Rune poems writ came...Read the rest...
Categories: growth, mystery, poetry,
Form: Other
Premium Member Armbands
As every fear speaks with the tide, I keep pushing each arm to abide, as I gain on the water, with nowhere left to swim, or hide, I keep pushing, for the seas to confide....Read the rest...
Categories: courage, extended metaphor, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member on the breath of hopes
a child’s love is the love that’s born to soar away … and while we may surrender our grasp to grant them leave - to press their precious wings upon the wind and chart a bearing their own, we, in all our most eager stirrings, will...Read the rest...
Categories: growth, analogy, child, children, father,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Growth Poems

Definition | What is Growth in Poetry?


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