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Best Outgrowing Poems

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Outgrowing Self-Loathing
My suit of self-loathing no longer fits
The mirror of compassion tells me so
Years of bad-intentions held back growth 
After a time, the length of my...

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Categories: outgrowing, anger, clothes, fashion, hate,
Form: Free verse



The Soul of Words
In black and white, I adore framing my inner thoughts, my worries, my wants and hopes… Words! a world of abiding renewal… a space of...

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Categories: outgrowing, art, creation, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Merry Christmas To Family and Friends
To my friends and family

You are the ones who let me in
When I need an Inn
Even when I have to stay in a kraal
You will...

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Categories: outgrowing, christmas, family, life, love,
Form: Ballad
Blasting Off
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity
for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power
for doing good."--Socrates

BLASTING OFF

What if human beings
Were...

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© The Fringe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outgrowing, visionary,
Form: Free verse
It Happened All of a Sudden
It happened  all of a sudden 
My own village outgrowing its own space
With its sun bathing golden paddy spikes gone for good 
Usurped as...

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Categories: outgrowing, naturesun,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Child In Me
In this blest childhood stature, may I stay
Savoring God’s goodness day after day
Cheerfully walking upon peaceful way
Basking under freedom, so purely gay.

With child*-like faith, I...

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Categories: outgrowing, blessing, character, child, christian,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Old Age
O-           Outgrowing

L-             ...

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Categories: outgrowing, age, life,
Form: Acrostic
Forever Love
In and out of deceit, Love is what sort,
past living false existence and no sense.
With my true love for you I am bought,
in my life,...

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Categories: outgrowing, love,
Form: Sonnet
Worn Out Vessel
Replenished thru the night	
Regaining positive light 

The days negative power
Outgrowing the greater by the hour

Seeking truth and knowledge
Making better soul to acknowledge

Teaching the creator all...

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Categories: outgrowing, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Done With This 2018
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
I am waiting to go home
Everyone's true colors have been shown
Everyone's level, I've outgrown
Now you get paid to be a clone
White...

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© Gu Jendayi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: outgrowing, 12th grade, allusion, black
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Mom's Delight
Basking in mirth’s pleasure from seizure’s test 
striving boy blends well with Mom’s crooning voice
outgrowing not delights of lullabies 
wafting joyous bonding blest wonderment.

Around gracious...

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Categories: outgrowing, blessing, christian, god, inspirational,
Form: Hybronnet
Premium Member Out and In Copassions
I could know no Self
without an Other

We could have no Child
without an EarthMother

No Ego
without an Earth-bound EcoSystem

I could understand no male
linear formation dominantly prominent
without a...

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Categories: outgrowing, community, culture, extended metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
Secrets Can'T Be Told In the Dark
Information
that makes worldly changes
is a secret
is buried
and dug up later in the ages
please keep this secret
do not tell in the dark
make sure you write backwards
so...

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Categories: outgrowing, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uqZhnqHMAg


The orchestra strains to be symphonic --- a bee in a tin box.
Cigar smoke thunders, molecules of sound wilt
only to be dialed up through brass...

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Categories: outgrowing, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member For Oscar On His 2nd Birthday
Out of the mouths of babes echoes “Car! Car!”
  and points he the bended finger waving.
In my close held orbit his rising star
 ...

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Categories: outgrowing, birthday, child,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things