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Adulthood Poems - Poems about Adulthood

Adulthood Poems - Examples of all types of poems about adulthood 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 adulthood.
Premium Member growing up
...Sometimes I wonder, what is it like to be an adult? To live alone, to work, to reach 18? To get your driver's license, to cook in your own apartment. To earn money or to spend from your savings. ......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, courage, growing up, life,
Form: Free verse
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
...Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism Psyche wracked with agony impossible mission to extricate lovely bones they wanna remain permanently abed. I chiefly function to amass knowled......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Voyage
...“You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.” By Rumi A voyage from known to unknown… From familiar to unfam......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member LEGEND THAT'S COMMENDABLE THROUGH PARENTS' LEGACY
... Gracious fortress of caring fortitude Guarding by their compassion’s latitude Governing to soar through faith’s latitude Guiding with attitude of gratitude… God blest our parents’ love-......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Epic
Premium Member An Age of Transcendence
...We are evolving towards a higher level of conscience! all of us You and me There is no escaping this truth There are no poles to climb out of this reality. We are in a changing world that we b......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Eight
...The sky and the earth gave witness to your birth. Sun smiles and Moon nods, while you build your life on Earth. Now you are already Eight in age; may you reach the late adulthood stage. While you......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place
...Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place I tip figurative hat to the late Cathy Robertson, longtime (lifetime) Thomas Paine Unitarian Church member, who unwittingly and quite casually made......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, 12th grade, addiction, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Child in Time
... In the tribulations of time, our childhood swiftly becomes adulthood. Fragile innocent souls, collecting memories, woven by the threads of fate's design, wandering through this labyrint......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member WHEN I WAS WHERE
...I remember me when I was until I become what I am I was just a child And I began to walk. Then as I walked I also I tested my talk. Voraciously Yeah I spoke I began walking on Further I stalked......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guess Who
... Born in London in eighteen eighty nine, a 'rags to riches' story just like mine. His childhood was full of horrid violence. In adulthood he was the king of silence. In silent reels of comedy ......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, appreciation, riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke within noggin of average baby boomer bloke catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke positive growth experiences through......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
From Boy to Man
...What can you see from where you stand So tall and brave and strong? Where will you go now that you are a man And what wisdom will you bring along? Like the eagle, ever steadfast in flight You’......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, adventure, for him, growing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member close
...We’re (my roommates and I) at a specific time of youth - a time I’ll call “close.” We aren’t fully adults but we’re close, we’re not completely out and independent, but we’re close. And once again, w......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, character, growth, humor, psychological,
Form: Free verse
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
... WHEN I WAS A LITTLE boy i knew no wisdom i knew no hate i knew no lies WHEN I GREW UP i understood history i understood love i understood truth NOW AS I AM DYING i know a lot wil......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Over the Wall
...A door made from the haphazard weaving of wood, rust, and ivy. Smudged newspapers flap their wings in a wayward wind. Bird feathers emerge from wet claw prints. Faded condoms spill to feed the m......Read the rest...
Categories: adulthood, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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