childhoodwas it really that big of a deal
if we were both just kids
our minds snapped shut like lids
brainwashed by whats bad and good
too scared to come out with the truth
nothing ever came smooth
these thoughts
these anxieties
they only get worse
i needed someone to soothe me
im just a little girl
please stop touching me like that
i dont like it
im...
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Categories:
abuse, age, anger, confusion,
Form: Free verse
fidelityThe fidelity
the sin of the flesh, why is it a sin
sexuality is a strong and natural desire
but often the downfall of the great
who lacks respect for lust
treats it with a low moral attitude
There are the monks of Thailand
naked feet in sandals, and one assumes
naked bodies under burgundy
robes, can so easily fall prey to when
a lady...
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Categories:
absence, africa, age, allusion,
Form: ABC
Half Past Summer,Two Months Till FallIntense heat and humidity of July’s yellow eyes.
Still, I see mellow leaves, falling from the trees, withering.
Nearly naked, both the skin and the bark, age in season.
...
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Categories:
age, autumn, imagery, summer,
Form: Sijo
the awakeningThe Awakening
My first wife's house was very small
her bed was narrow to
after sex, she told me to sleep in the bathtub
In the night, I got up, opened the window
The sea-washed moon came in
I have seen that moon many times before
from many portholes
I was always enchanted by the pool
of stillness
I walked out of the sleeping house,...
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Categories:
abuse, age, allusion,
Form: ABC
Summer PassingImpossible beauty, summer in swell,
Fragrance aflowing and fluttering around;
Though now, I admit, I don’t see it well,
I know – my ears! – all the birds by their sound.
Heaven surrounds me, but only for now;
Howling the winds that shall crash on my head;
Ripping the flowers that live on the bough,
Never see summer return in its stead.
Perhaps...
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Categories:
age, beauty, death, howl,
Form: Sonnet
It Never Gets OldIt Never Gets Old
We do;
It doesn't.
The caring that fills the deep dark
The warmth that flows
From self to self
The deep, dear chains of love
Forged from a lifetime's memories;
It never gets old.
The march of our little history
Revolving with the cogs of other histories
Themselves moving other, ever greater histories
Never gets old.
From endings emanate new beginnings
Change is constant,
Yet...
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Categories:
age, life, true love,
Form: Free verse
TransformA love that has weathered wild storms
And youth's fierce passion contained
Tender, deeper than lust ingrained
An opened sonnet of life transform
A tapestry still on an open loom
Unfinished here upon this earth
Those golden years, a story of mirth
Their roots deep, fragrant flowers bloom
Two hearts somehow in rapport
Good character, a crown they share
With every gesture and each care
Maybe...
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Categories:
age, love,
Form: Rhyme
NympsForest Nymphs
He had read about nymphs, inland mermaids
swimming in tarns and forest lakes far from
The restless oceans, the tarn nymphs were
less aggressive and bore no grudges
He found his forest like, undressed and naked
swam around for a few minutes and sat
be the edge of the lakelet to dry off, nymphs
about and since it was late September
The...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, august, best
Form: ABC
I guess I'm sorry thoughIt's been a year now
And I'm still hooked up
With the one who'll never know
But let's cross this small ramp
Truth be told
I never liked you
Others might say I'm quite cold
But I was trying something new
I guess I'm sorry though
As you where there so I called you a distraction
Pull me out of the...
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Categories:
11th grade, age, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
A Bullet With Yesterday's DateIn sepia tones, the echoes twist and sway,
When shadows stalk the moments lost to time,
A spectral dance where ghosts of youth hold sway,
Their laughter mingles softly with my rhyme.
Each birthday brings the weight of fleeting light,
As innocence drifts gently into night;
The storms of change laugh cruelly from afar,
While memory rides the mist—a faded star.
Oh, how...
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Categories:
age, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet
a new futureA new future
To wake up in the night and sense the awe of life is
light from street lights tells of other sides, as does
a car driving by at two in the morning
Living forever is a punishment, but some people
write a self-biography in the hope that when they
Die, they will be remembered
To be blessed in the...
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Categories:
absence, age, art,
Form: ABC
Rhetorical Somethings And NothingsSomewhere there’s a
sunflower poking out from
the corner of a concrete
barrier, going unnoticed
by everyone except
myself.
And it makes
me wonder:
They say when
you fall in love with
an artist, you
can never die.
But what
happens when
an artist falls
in love? Do
they continue
capturing futures,
or only retrospective
moments?
Time is an old
concept—or shall
I say, odd?
Because
I see you in soft shadows
and storefront glass, in
wilted flowers I forget to
water,...
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Categories:
age, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
the most importantThe most important
Fine drizzle over the bay, falling slowly and hesitantly
as preparing for a proper deluge
Who knows, perhaps it will not happen, and the sun
will shine even if it is a day older
Dry slippery cobblestone pavements for the aged
Since it is Saturday, the ships' tugs are at their anchorage.
as they want to be nearer the...
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Categories:
age, 2nd grade, 7th grade,
Form: ABC
One Day At A Time
Comes a time in each life
when passed time rouses our thoughts.
Then,, we give scant thought to the future.
Age has left us with no aspirations.
And we’ve accepted the fact that our future,
is the present day.
...
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Categories:
age, blessing, how i
Form: Free verse
Today my heart races for youYour flesh was never warmer than my passion, a flame more intense than you could ever bear. My love for writing poetry is my secret weapon.
While I may not claim to be gifted
My identity is Black, and words have always motivated me. I can string them together easily, but making them meaningful? That’s...
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Categories:
absence, africa, age, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Specific Types of Age Poems
Read wonderful age poetry on the following sub-topics:
40, 50, 60, 70, coming of, different, enlightenment, exploration, funny, middle, new, old, romantic, stone
and more.
Definition | What is Age in Poetry?
Poems Related to Age
youth, maturity, life, old age, infancy, milestone, childhood, adolescence, wear and tear, adulthood, middle age, generation, millennium, era, epoch, interim, duration, lifetime, aeon, develop, mature, grow up, grow feeble, grow old,