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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.


Rewind Pt2
Things 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,



Premium Member Chella
The 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 Up
Children 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 Me
Why 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,

Home
Home, 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,



Home
Home, 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,

More
I 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,

Premium Member Journey On The Edge I
When 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

Premium Member In Your Studio
I’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 Love
*A Meditation on Growing Up*

## I. [Age 6] — First Light

Your fingernails, chewed down to pink,
sort bottle caps by rust and shine.
I offer you my...

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Categories: childhood, boy, girlfriend,

Crayon Box Dreams
Once, 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

Premium Member Things I Almost Understood
A soggy teddy bear
lay on the shoulder of the highway—
head twisted, limbs askew,
its damp fur clinging to gravel
and its sightless eyes beseeching heaven.
I watched from...

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Categories: childhood, high school, imagery,

Ode to love a grandmother
As years go by the more I think
About how one minute I was 5 and now I'm 28,
You watched me grow always been by my...

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Categories: age, childhood, deep, emotions,

The Mirror
I opened my eyes when it was too late.
The river passed before my wide-open eyes.
I missed my childhood;
I was a prisoner in my mind.
Neither God...

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Categories: childhood, extended metaphor, growing up,

Premium Member letting go, just
I watch him
gathering days in arms,
like handfuls of sand,
spilling, pouring, 
into an hour-glass
with never a grain lost.

His voice, once sweet and melodious,
cracked, 
now fed on...

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Categories: boy, childhood, growing up,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things