Coming Of Age Poems

** Nigh Another Birthday **

I’ve passed so many birthdays,
That a few dozen of those special days 
    Fall away in a gray...

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The years have flown by,
Without me realising of all
That I have been missing out in our world
The years, with the speed of light,
Have brought me...

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A shrub copse rides a hillock near a fishing town.
After the sun shutters dim to dark,
Shadows lengthen, enlarging into blacknesses.
Crickets ratchet down their temperatures.

The earth...

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She sits at a window,
that faces the park
the daylight is fading,
to almost dark.
It’s almost deserted
as people return
to their flats and houses
to find the warm.

She glimpses...

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Coming of Age

The breeze is blowing through her hair,
and like the sun she’s headed west
as apprehension fills the air.

All by herself she leaves her nest
of...

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On Sam Adam’s 66th birthday
He felt old and run down
Just felt burned out
His body worn out
His vision fading
His hearing shot
His teeth aching
His back enflamed
He...

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The customs men shake their heads
and watch the women enter Mexico.
Three with skirts, white socks,
one with jeans 
and proper blouse.
Seventeen, eighteen
just out of Concord Academy
in...

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Is it true Said the child to it's Father,
That we all have to be very good,
And We don't have a choice if we'd rather,
Be naughty...

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2021-Coming of Age
By Franklin Price
12/31/2021

This year is twenty twenty-one.
This day will be its last.
As for me, don't know 'bout you,
I'll be glad when it has...

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When a young lad was caught playing with his willy
The other boys laughed, said he was being silly
But they certainly did it, too
When they had...

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Restless
 how slowly life seems to flow
in youth, ever in a hurry and on the go,
 rushing toward the coming of age
living quick and fast...

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Pile drivers have replaced gandy dancers
And Mayflower trucks the circus, open-cage parades
Horse drawn down Main Street U.S.A.,

But overnight canvas bosses still command
Roust abouts to raise...

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I’m a man who knows nothing of manhood.
Never been taught to take initiative and action, 
“Duck away from your call by pursuing inaction.”
I want to...

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Who's that girl?
She has bright eyes
Endless dreams
Ambition erupting from her ears
The world is nothing but beautiful
Everything ugly is simply misunderstood
Naïve, free girl- I miss you
...

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Good morning, New Year, you king of time

What you have in store for me, I ignore

One thing I wish so much to know though: 

Would...

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