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Eighteen Poems - Poems about Eighteen

Eighteen Poems - Examples of all types of poems about eighteen to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for eighteen.
Premium Member Cheery Joy
...Here is my thought on numerical evolution of Etheree poem form: One, Two, three Four, five, six Seven, eight, nine Ten, eleven, twelve Thirteen, forteen, fifteen Sixteen, seventeen, eightee......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, joy,
Form: Etheree



Premium Member Mama's Excuses Do Son no Favor
...Mama Excuse Smooth talker Jurisdiction Bamboozles school Now he’s eighteen Consequence Jail Time ......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, mother son, parents,
Form: Ninette
Premium Member Romantic Rendezvous
... you're so far away... tantalizing temptation was always your forte teasing me, drawing me in making me yearn for your passionate kiss desperate to be lured into your amorous arms ......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, romantic love,
Form: Alliteration
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
...Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened When a boy, I wanted to be as tall as my father (he passed away October seventh two thousand and twenty linkedin to congestive heart failure), who ......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Rose Blooms in Spring
...She turns sixteen one cold December clime He strings dissembling lover’s thorns so girthed The sprouts of pristine virtue split by crime The core is sore, this shriveled Rose is birthed Thoug......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, 12th grade, innocence, journey,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Sad Time and an Awful War
...I was from a poor rural county in Iowa The kind that drafts young men during wars Back in the late sixties many of our men went to Viet Nam Some did not return, others returned damaged Patriots......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Eighteen Years Too Late: Echoes of Regrets
...In the tapestry of time, a story is spun, Of hearts entwined beneath the sun. It began in the halls of youth's embrace, Where two souls met, face to face. In the halls of Primary, their eyes di......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cicada Rumble - or 1803 plus 13 times 17 equals 2024
...It's been a long time since the cicadas rumbled. History books say 'twas eighteen hundred and three When war struck the trees where bees sometimes bumbled. The seventeen and thirteen boys couldn......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, humor, insect, math, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 1856
... During a bad storm one night I turned on my television Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wai......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Sans sixth psychic sense
...Sans sixth (psychic) sense... poise zen dystopian rant This prognosticator doth predict potential based at current rate sinister debacle that will instantaneously annihilate, United States st......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, abuse, america, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A betrayal of innocense
...Youth is a deep, colorful green as part of the most verdant life. Youth is a period of one's span of TIME. In the U.S., ......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, allusion, analogy, appreciation, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Legendary Teacher and Student
...Born in New England in the wake of the Civil War, Her folks fled Irish famine and landed on our shore. At age five, she took sick, losing almost all her sight. At eight, her mother died, and h......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, education, hero, inspirational, school,
Form: Rhyme
Abandoned Or Abandoned?
...Stories, stories that was told on to me, "A woman so pretty, with her flawless eyes. Soft lips, clear skin and her hair dancing tonight." My reflection, grudgingly I dared not to peek, In my shad......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Narrative
Too nascent to be called seasoned
...I've been meaning to write for a long time. but sometimes my words willingly remain hostage in my heart. Not wanting to be heard. Covered and crumpled. I cannot sink in I am 18. it's fri......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member thank you for the sugar cookie
...Classroom door opens Third grader named Piper enters carrying cookies on a tray Would you like one? All the students yell that they want one. I tell them “just for adults,” for there are not enou......Read the rest...
Categories: eighteen, food,
Form: Free verse

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