Best Grown Up Poems

The sky's slate gray
   It's rained all day
Though children can't go out
   They don't sit around and pout

Kids paint, they draw
   They learn to cook
Curl up with their favorite book

So, if ever rain dampens your grown-up mood
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My hands were busy through the day I didn't have much time to play the little games you asked me to, I didn't have much time for you. I'd wash your clothes and your hair, then I'd sew and cook with a care, but when...

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I am almost seventeen years old,
It is almost summer, and
My boyfriend and I are 
Kissing with the 
Lights off...
I tell him I don't want sex.
I wonder if this will be like
The time-

I am sixteen years old;
It's cold outside but
My boyfriend and I are 
Kissing with...

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Little Boy's Toys Cost Less

Toy truck
Horse bucks

Grown Men Toys Cost More

Jaguar 
Their Car

Women's Toys Essential To Keeping House

Wire wisk
Eggs whisk

Little Girls' Dream Toys

Bride doll
Dyed shawl

Worn Out  Someday Will End

Trash bin
All send  ...

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I. Lyric Written in 1958 at Age Eight
Sung with Friends on the Schoolyard 
to the tune of "Curiosity Killed the Cat" 
from Peeping Penguins (1937)

There's poopoo on the ground
There's poopoo on the ground
Looks like it, smells like, tastes like it too
Put your foot in it...

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See,
Then listen.
Absorb,
Then feel.
Process,
Then speak.
Assessments of life,
With maturity at it's peek....

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She's getting ready
  Prom night finally is here 
orchid pinned on dress
  Nervous anticipation
Attempting to be grown up...

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If you look me in the eyes what would you see?
Would you see me for what I have come to be?
Would you see the pain that I try so hard to hide?
Or do you think the way I have always acted and felt was a...

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This is me grown up
How hard could that be? 
This is me 18 years later
Aren't I supposed to be free? 

This is me grown up
Is this not how you raised me? 
A character, an independent 
Is it too much? I'm sorry 

This is me grown...

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as a child the crescent moon would visit me at my bedroom window
his face lit up by his captivating smile we would talk hours in a row

i would skateboard on his crest for quite a time in the lull of the night 
in the refreshing...

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Grown Miss Muffet put “tuffet” on display
family quickly denounced her as a stray
       Muffet found bike rider
       who called himself Spider
 and, after curds, he and she sped a-whey

May 12, 2023
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Mountain climber (faith)
Adaptable
Timely
Under good stress
Resourceful
Energized!...

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To all you grown up ladies, you need lullabies too - to the melody of Tura Lura Lura

Go to sleep my darlin'
Go to sleep my dear
Lay you down with a smile
While I wipe away your tears.
Go to sleep my darlin'
While I rock you near,
And calm...

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Over the weekend our two youngest grandchildren came to our house to stay
(the two older ones no longer live at home and their parents were away).

We laughed, we ate, we walked, we danced
they played on our computer in between
and we noticed, after we returned them...

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Youth is a wonderland of joy and bliss
Filled with vibrancy, picture-perfect days.
Roses, blue skies, love's first trembling kiss
Winding hesitantly toward grown-up ways.

Time is a prankster that plays with our will
Enchants us to think golden days will last
Twists our psyches, sings the same tune until
we believe...

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