Growing Up Childhood Poems
These Growing Up Childhood poems are examples of poetry about Growing Up Childhood. These are the best examples of Childhood Growing Up poems written by international poets.
Pain in revolutionsYesterday, today, tomorrow.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 O' clock,
24 hours,
365 days,
cocoon to butterfly,
7 days.
Over and over and over.
Again.
When you turn 5, you become a kid.
No more sippy cups or...
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Categories:
age, baby, change, childhood,
The StrangerWhen the sun bloomed
And the bougainvillea blossomed
And her cheeks unfurled
Into a long smile
At sunset,
I had her in my arms;
I knew her.
When the whales sprayed...
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Categories:
childhood, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Gratitude still in my heart
My early childhood was great, I was the first born.
My mother had five children after me so I mostly remember
spending lots of time with my...
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Categories:
appreciation, child, childhood, grandmother,
Graphite Steps
My soles press soft
into sidewalks. I leave
a trail of graphite steps
They etch out my first sentence—
a diary in crayon, a novel in margins
Time sharpens...
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Categories:
childhood, city, meaningful, memory,
Rewind Pt2Things doesn’t go the way we want,
They go the way we do for it.
Results I got harsh, which I can’t,
Future happens according to one’s did.
Was...
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Categories:
absence, childhood, depression, emotions,
ChellaThe home where Chella grew up, in the ghetto of Liberty City Florida, had beige carpets so old that pieces of the tuft and twirl...
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Categories:
childhood, feelings, friend, history,
Playing Grown UpChildren love to play Grown Up
And choose bright, pretty dresses
They slap and dab loads of makeup
And strut like Greek empresses
They gab and gossip and chitter
As...
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Categories:
childhood, happiness, innocence,
Why Not MeWhy not me, i always asks,
In shadows where the silence basks,
When sickness came, I felt the chill,
While soup and...
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Categories:
brother, childhood, confusion, emotions,
HomeHome, home is a place where you're supposed to feel loved and safe.
A place where you can go to get away.
When you struggle throughout...
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Categories:
abuse, childhood, family, home,
HomeHome, home is a place where you're supposed to feel loved and safe.
A place where you can go to get away.
When you struggle throughout...
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Categories:
abuse, childhood, family, home,
MoreI am poor but still want more.
I get a job but still want more.
I go to parties but still want more.
I buy everything but still...
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Categories:
childhood, baby, beautiful, career, celebrity,
Journey On The Edge IWhen I was four, I hadn't thought life a bore,
As I was free to play, until one very day,
I learned someday we all go out...
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Categories:
childhood, death, drug, growing
In Your StudioI’m on your lap
in a photo I no longer have—
a toddler with a borrowed brush,
my hand caught mid-daub
on your canvas.
It was staged, of course—
your painting...
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Categories:
art, childhood, father, growing
When Little Boys Fall in LoveA Meditation on Growing Up
I. [Age 6] — First Light
Your fingernails, chewed to rosy tips,
sort bottle caps by rust and gleam.
I offer you my father’s...
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Categories:
childhood, boy, girlfriend,
Crayon Box DreamsOnce, colours bloomed beneath my fingertips,
A world alive in every waxy line.
With careless joy, I painted paper ships
And skies where suns and silver moons would...
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Categories:
childhood, age, allegory, change, for