Best Grownup Poems

1)   Find a broom, then go to your room, and give it a good sweep.
 2)   Lie on the couch, when Mom’s a grouch, and pretend that you’re asleep.
 3)   Take a ride on your bike, or take a...

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When you insist on playing grownup games,
you've only yourself to blame if you lose.
And though the signs can easily confuse,
smoldering embers don't equate to flames.

Innocence can't protect you from love's pain;
like a moth, you're attracted to its flame.
And though it burns, you crave it all...

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That place, that empty space
Where the darkness grows deep and drear 
Movement is slow, with nowhere to go
But initiative is too low to get you out of ...here

If you could know "here" by finding "near"
A location could guide you to a ....figment of the imagination
This...

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I've carried you with me, every step of the way.
I've thought of you every morning, and at the end of each day.
You may not realize, how much to me you mean.
My actions may not have shown it, my true feelings may have gone unseen.

But please...

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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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I have grown up 
with my mother’s hatred 
and my father’s disgust. 
I have grown up 
In the shadow of my brother 
Who couldn’t be anything but perfect.
I have grown up 
like a stray
I have grown up
I have survived. 
I have grown up
I am alive.
Broken,...

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As grown ups we value
Things that don’t set us free
We ponder over bite and fright
As if it were are only right
We need to grow up 
And yet be free
Like children in a playground
Simmering with zeal
How do we get this free
What is missing in our DNA
To...

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