Adulthood Poems - Poems about Adulthood

...Sound of rumbling midnight train awakens young girl. The glow of nightlight invites her to soiree with poetic guests who, on inked pages, dwell. She accepts the invitation, propping herself on her el......Read More

... I used to have a smile when I was a youth wider than the cloud I used to shine with my mouth brilliantly now an adulthood my latter years through neglect in my speech the negativity fil......Read More

...DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Go on and beat me But atleast not infront of our kids For they'll not understand Why you doing this to their mother "Mum why you crying Has dad beaten you again I saw h......Read More

...Sabrina was a woman who knew her own soul People learned fast not to try and hoodwink her She did not fall down, kick or scream when confronted Knowing when to walk away, she left drama behind ......Read More

...The Mariner ashore the night in the hallway paled into a yellowish screen showing a black&white movie ca 1963 A time machine of memories sent him back to the years to meet people long since go......Read More

... It's so quiet all around There is not one single sound In this room that we're both in Scared to death how to begin This new chapter as they grow Finding a way they can show How much they mea......Read More

...As a child, I mistakenly believed that older people chose to have stiff backs, wrinkles on their faces, and veins like small, fat snakes on either hand. I grew up convinced that getting older was som......Read More

...Remembering when a single street light brights Days of when kids went out and play In the streets running wild, out of trouble Playing to nearly bed, break for supper Bats flew dark nights in hun......Read More

... As growing toward arrived full stature Of mine physical or mental maturity cured Childhood toward adulthood fully such Grown ---Growing up ~ In developing ageing maturing So e......Read More

...Albino deer you are in such danger Hunters have been told not to hunt you Unfortunately, some will anyway Because they are bloodthirsty You are the easiest to see With your white coat For you......Read More

...Empty in itself, the soul lives Feeling of loneliness thrives there within A sound of peace among the dark A soul search touch of humanity Days of friends gone, now aquaintances Work, life; ever......Read More

...Baby, born, small loved. Toddler, learning, growing,, loved Taller, talking, not the same for all Growing each day, happy just trust. Bigger each year, pressure will start Unsure amd lost, at......Read More

...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep Forlorn; bereft of golden (slippered) opportunities I weep; Three score and four years replete with mailer daemons, hence mindset adrip with self denou......Read More

...People sometimes tell me the heirlooms given to me hold no value over how my heart feels, but these things have memories, stories of where they've come from that tug at my heart. They’re scattered a......Read More

...dreams … diaphanous … mysteries of the mind that will never find an answer fluid and dynamic beyond our affect or sense … personally, I remember only a couple from my childhood rather nonde......Read More