Growing Poems - Poems about Growing

Pulling and pushing and dancing up and down Like monkeys no one is watching but the behaved crowd Who paid to expect what they came to see and get their moneys worth In a humble and normative way...Read the rest...

DAYS THAT I USED TO KNOW People used to say I like the olden days Most of the time it was easy to find your way Before people were always easy to talk to We were never afraid to...Read the rest...

When I was young I wondered why I couldn't reach up and touch the sky I thought I only had to grow tall I couldn't touch it because I was small But then I grew up And I came to understand The sky wasn't something you...Read the rest...

Do poets always walk in the rain? This poet once did When she was but a kid. The bathwater of summer drops Cascading from suburban chimney tops, Puddles on pavement Begging for splashing, A robin’s egg in the grass All fractured and bashed-in. The...Read the rest...

That was then, When, I played with a doll, And used a pretend phone to make a call. I had a favorite stuffed dog, And had fun chasing a slimy, green frog. I played dress up, And drank from a sippy cup. I...Read the rest...

Like a great beast Its age set course Futures the feast Exits ones corpse...Read the rest...

Then: The sun rises. My world is small. Everything has yet to happen. One day, I'll go to school and learn important things - Like my brothers - I wish I was a year older. I wonder, "who am...Read the rest...

It felt like yesterday that we were riding our bikes down our empty street The streets we ruled, the streets we got to keep As if tomorrow was never going to come The sun would grow old above...Read the rest...

Help me please! I'm a kid, and I'm confused. Something's wrong with me - I like to run wild and free 'neath the sun, And climb a willow tree. I ask too many questions, that...Read the rest...

I used to be afraid: afraid of being disrespected, afraid of losing, afraid of staying alone, afraid of being cheated. Now with the passing of time and growing age, with continuity of all these I stated above, has lost its density. Lately, I have learned...Read the rest...

ME BEING A GROWN-UP Every day my life was changing I didn't realize how fast it was happening Sometimes I wonder where all the time go It seems like I was a child not so long ago In this life,...Read the rest...

We’d go exploring along the river and through the woods, We’d run, and we’d whoop, then go silently to try and see a rabbit if we could. We’d push through all the briar and the bramble, Then chase...Read the rest...

i’m here, nor there, sometimes everywhere a storm brewing inside i’m darker i’ve sailed these seas before repetition becomes habit take me back to simpler times an early childhood memory just one day when i didn’t allow myself to be consumed by...Read the rest...

Youth is a deep, colorful green as part of the most verdant life. ...Read the rest...

Running fancy free into a field, Chasing butterflies my path revealed, My arms outstretched into the sky, I am so happy--not caring why. Cooled by a fragrant soft Spring breeze, I trip and fall down to my knees, Then wistfully gaze...Read the rest...