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Coming Of Age Poems

These Coming Of Age poems are examples of poetry about Coming Of Age. These are the best examples of Age Coming Of poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Changing Trains
I used to ride the train
from school to home and back,
every other weekend,
in an old Pullman car
built in the nineteen-thirties.
It smelled like my grandma’s house—
a...

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Categories: age, childhood, memory, nostalgia, travel,



Premium Member Grace Knurls Decrepit Gnarls
Grace can't grind away the wrinkled gnarls time obeyed,
Nor hide the snarls, ploughed as furrows in the brow.
It carves the knurls for grip that age...

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Categories: age,

Ugly Orange Shutters
Ugly Orange Shutters

It’s ½ past midnight when I ease my 1989 white Nissan Sentra into the long driveway of Horseshoe Rd. A decade past its...

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Categories: age, divorce,

Premium Member Banned Book Club VI
Conservatives’ banning’s apropos of nothing
At twelve when he delt with this
shouldn't have to jump through hoops
should’ve been able to explore when a teen
But because of...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, books,

Premium Member Autumn Side Of September
In the middle ages
these roughed and scuffed decades
between newborn crocus snow-melt-nursed and
dried hydrangea blooms sepia-skinned and papery thin
I earned the right to wear sapphires
and burn...

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Categories: age, beauty, birth, introspection,



Premium Member The Featured Twirler
Oh that Lily, she the epitome of a  
Golden Child as I watched her
Exuding effortless grace, a liquid-silver baton—  
a Haddon Heights Garnett....

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Categories: age, confidence, desire, feelings, high

List of people I've kissed
Do you remember like I do, 
the way we’d jump with giddy— 
Or how we’d grit our teeth,
waiting for something to happen?

Your feeling,
A pulse that...

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Categories: age, 9th grade, innocence, love,

Sour Drinks
She'll be the queen of my decrepit ridgeline,
Her crown, heavy with my wasted want.
Never knows best, a fault of design.

Her tensions a dagger, a cunning...

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Categories: age, absence, childhood, identity, symbolism,

A New Day - Wildflowers
Roads long squandered,
Routes trained to memory.
a crack in the long unyielding concrete
unremarkable.

Then, a wildflower
A peculiar pink.
Leather, nostalgia.
Cinnamon, mellow.

Stop dead in my tracks,
Wistful, yearn.
Many a while...

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© Kama Elwal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, appreciation, aubade, beautiful, change,

Your Ass Belongs to the Army
They say the journey to adulthood is supposed to be a slow coming of age process that allows the time to contemplate what role we’ll...

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Categories: age, poetry,

Premium Member Coming Of Age, The Rite


a tender voice recites, muse’s lyrics flow                  ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: celebration, childhood, courage, emotions,

Lavender Woman
I awoke from a small seed
Born from the sun and earth of humble origins 
Surrounded by others waiting to bloom 
A journey I took,
Through the...

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Categories: age, analogy, fate, flower,

Premium Member Shoo
I was a competent, happy housewife, but that was before my husband died,
Leaving me to rear myriad children solo, as the lone star twinkles with...

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Categories: age, children, fantasy, happiness,

Premium Member Turning Point - Coming of Age - Acceptance at Last
("Mrs. It Dances Through It", 2014, original pen and ink)

Turning Point - Coming of Age - Acceptance at Last

Finally at age 65 I reach a...

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Categories: age, angst, anxiety, perspective,

Premium Member Coming of Age
Dangerous Fools and Evil Idiots
They agree to disagree
Always spitefully fastidious
About each other’s pedigree
Always at the war, that goes
With no hope to prove who’s right
There’s no...

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Categories: age, philosophy,


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