Girl Poems | Examples of Girl Poetry

How many funerals of ones self can someone have before there is nothing left Don't answer It's rhetorical anyway Funeral number 1 A piece of her hair A symbol of when they would stop and stare At her hair When they would make her life a living nightmare Until she became too aware Until It became too much to bear Until she silenced...

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The first poem I posted on Soup. One of the first 200 poems I deleted. I found a rough copy in an old scribble book. Hardware Blues. My dad he went down fighting, to keep his local hardware store But the big boys took his customers and the bank said “Shut the door”. He had sales...

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When he was young. I thought he was old. It never occurred to me that I might be wrong. That old wouldn’t show up for years and years, decades even. He wasn’t tall like my grandfather. But he wasn’t short either. He had a habit of biting his cuticles that I inherited and would be...

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Museums A place full of stories Of art Not just in the paintings But in the people too A little black girl walking hand in hand with her mother Her eyes lit up in wonder Wandering what she would discover While she walks around Spinning around And jumping up and down She doesn't see That everytime she jumps the light reflecting on her beautiful...

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'twas at the country fair I spied her outstanding in her field (in many more ways than one) beyond compare second to none eyelashes long and lovely skin of velvety down I insist who could resist those eyes so big so brown (limpid pools?) 'twould make a fool of (almost) any man but I'm her biggest fan and I won't lie I...

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My happy girl has that gleeful grin She peeks around shower curtain and I smile I want to do my best as her parent She is my joy, my life, my everything...

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it's okay... but it didn't start out that way from the time of your entry from the birth canal your clock of pain started ticking a ticking of pain that seemed never ending like a long slow road to hell driving pain bone marrow deep, but no one could tell, 'cause you hid it well you were left on your own...

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In a wake of fear right here, so unforgiving and beautifully forgotten again. I'll remember so you don't have to forget my name again. so oblivious to all of our pain. so we shed our skins again. beloveds in the next life Ill love you for a lifetime But today ill stay right here on the dark side of rainbows theres no...

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Outside, we feel warm rays from the sun. I'm with my special, precious one. Those wee hands, feet and ponytail always bring happiness, without fail. We are out to have some fun. Together, we crouch by the koi pond. The weatherman waved his magic wand, and you can see the water glitter, o'er each enchanting orange critter. Shared experience creates a bond. So, we...

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There was a girl with eggshell skin Who never could let sunlight in. For if she did, the skin must crack And with it leak a yellow sack Of beating yolk that longed to be With others, where they took their seed. They paid no mind. They did not know The sorrowed song began to grow. Until one day, she took a fall From...

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It hit me just today I saw her in a whole new way Birthday dinner, just her and I A thought brought a tear to my eye Has always been "my little girl" Now she's about to face the world Seen her grace of a woman before Now seeing so much more Just a girl of seventeen Trying to find life and what it...

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He says that he loves you, but he can never say why. He says he only has eyes for you, but turns and looks every time another girl walks by. You think that you love him so much that you can hardly breathe. Not realizing it is because he has pressed up against your neck, his knee. He says that...

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He says that he loves you, but he can never say why. He says he only has eyes for you, but turns and looks every time another girl walks by. You think that you love him so much that you can hardly breathe. Not realizing it is because he has pressed up against your neck, his knee. He says that...

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Born orphan, the torture of her stepmother and stepsisters shaped the fairy tale Cinderella with fire, the ember girl, who didn’t dream seeing the dormant love bloom, but seethed within to take the retaliatory revenge. On the night of the grand royal ball the cruel family left bedecked with jewels and satin for the palace, locking her in the attic in...

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Seal the mountains, the peaks, the city— The little emperor rides waves like in Shanghai Bund. In the end, the man who loved beauty became a rifle. Where is the man-made bathing pool atop that mountain? The princely courage, allies in accord, Carried martial genes, shamanic rhythms, Carried cells of herbs and discipline, anti-entropy. Like Zhang Xianzhong sinking treasure into the Min...

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