Best Growing Pains Poems

Every family has them
These unsettling times these misunderstandings
Times when many things come into play
In most cases these wee spats are soon over and forgotten
But sometimes...

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All hope is lost, for fairytales
Happy endings are only fiction
High pitched whistles drown the bells
Only fools waste pennies, wishing

Dreams were big when we were small
Til...

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dandelion child

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We were eight children
crowded in a little house;
and just one bathroom.

5/5/16

For Contest: Haiku on "My Family"
Hosted by: Marvin Celestial...

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A Tribute to Jayson, My Brave Warrior

My dear son, Jayson
When you called late last night to let me know
You were deploying to go overseas tomorrow
In...

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Country isn't country anymore
Every time I listen, I get a little sore
They forgot about the trains
Mama's eyes and summer rains
Daddy's hands and growing pains
Country isn't...

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GROWING PAINS

It’s all about pain, frustration, tears. Fears, it’s all about fighting temptation
Watch the sun rise and set to the darkest thoughts of contemplation
My heart...

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I listen to my shadow as it wakes
Contemplating its solitude, hearing how peacefully it
Settles over dawn’s breath, and how it looks upon
Last night’s fire, now...

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Roughnecking in Texas was a bachelor's life
Social by nature, not looking for a wife
A chance encounter, at a stop sign was she
Eyes kissed, hearts danced,...

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It seems Mother Nature is now going thru the “change”
After millions of years it begins to be so strange
The cycle of birth, whether days or...

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I row my little boat
By Michelle Morris
23/02/2023

I row my little boat
Out onto the ocean 
I know boats are meant
To be free to explore

Harbours are safe
For...

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Dear Asia.
 
I was awakened in the middle of the night
with you on my mind. By the time the clock
struck 12:40 AM, the tears had...

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Buds are opening on a tree,
Showing their colors of pale green.
As sun and rain flow through their veins,
They stretch their shape as with growing pains.

The...

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Twisting chosen truths around our hearts we bind.
Trials break facades showing what’s behind
professions under past skies.
Pulled triggers, it dies.
Bleeding our
LIES.
Will devour
and drink the proud cries.
Confessions...

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Early Days

An epic story told of men on earth,
My father’s life, and also mine
Wind planted weeds, we had a humble birth,
Not sprung from rose or...

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