Growing Up Poems - Examples of all types of growing up poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Fun: POI ''New Poetic Form''3 BY 3 BY 3
Write a 3-alphabet Word title,
Write 3 stanzas, with 3 lines with 3 words per line (Popular hyphenated-words accepted)
Rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cac
Your title will be spelled out...
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Categories:
growing up, celebration, crazy, fun, games,
Form: Other
Tainted TravelTime and mind unravel
A maze of rose tainted gravel
Whispers life’s secrets...
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Categories:
growing up, introspection, life,
Form: Senryu
Construct or NotPulling and pushing and dancing up and down
Like monkeys no one is watching but the behaved crowd
Who paid to expect what they came to see and get their moneys worth
In a humble and normative way...
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Categories:
growing up, conflict, culture, fate, freedom,
Form: Free verse
DAYS THAT I USED TO KNOWDAYS THAT I USED TO KNOW
People used to say I like the olden days
Most of the time it was easy to find your way
Before people were always easy to talk to
We were never afraid to...
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Categories:
age, day, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
When I was young
When I was young
I wondered why
I couldn't reach up
and touch the sky
I thought I only
had to grow tall
I couldn't touch it
because I was small
But then I grew up
And I came to understand
The sky wasn't something
you...
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Categories:
growing up, growth,
Form: Free verse
Do Poets Always Walk in the RainDo poets always walk in the rain?
This poet once did
When she was but a kid.
The bathwater of summer drops
Cascading from suburban chimney tops,
Puddles on pavement
Begging for splashing,
A robin’s egg in the grass
All fractured and bashed-in.
The...
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Categories:
childhood, growing up, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
That Was Then, This Is NowThat was then,
When,
I played with a doll,
And used a pretend phone to make a call.
I had a favorite stuffed dog,
And had fun chasing a slimy, green frog.
I played dress up,
And drank from a sippy cup.
I...
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Categories:
child, growing up, memory,
Form: Rhyme
LifeLike a great beast
Its age set course
Futures the feast
Exits ones corpse...
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Categories:
growing up, analogy, death, future, growing
Form: Acrostic
That Was Then, This is NowThen:
The sun rises.
My world is small.
Everything has yet to happen.
One day, I'll go to school and learn important things -
Like my brothers -
I wish I was a year older.
I wonder, "who am...
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Categories:
age, childhood, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Growing PainsIt felt like yesterday that we were riding our bikes down our empty street
The streets we ruled, the streets we got to keep
As if tomorrow was never going to come
The sun would grow old above...
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Categories:
age, friendship, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Help MeHelp me please! I'm a kid, and I'm confused.
Something's wrong with me -
I like to run wild and free 'neath the sun,
And climb a willow tree.
I ask too many questions, that...
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Categories:
growing up, child, dog, drug, education,
Form: Rhyme
FearI used to be afraid:
afraid of being disrespected,
afraid of losing,
afraid of staying alone,
afraid of being cheated.
Now with the passing of time
and growing age,
with continuity of all these
I stated above,
has lost its density.
Lately, I have learned...
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Categories:
growing up, allegory, encouraging, fear, growing
Form: Free verse
ME BEING A GROWN-UPME BEING A GROWN-UP
Every day my life was changing
I didn't realize how fast it was happening
Sometimes I wonder where all the time go
It seems like I was a child not so long ago
In this life,...
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Categories:
age, feelings, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
What an AdventureWe’d go exploring along the river and through the woods,
We’d run, and we’d whoop, then go silently to try and see a rabbit if we could.
We’d push through all the briar and the bramble,
Then chase...
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Categories:
growing up, adventure, childhood, fun, growing
Form: Rhyme
the shadow self wants to dancei’m here, nor there, sometimes everywhere
a storm brewing
inside i’m darker
i’ve sailed these seas before
repetition becomes habit
take me back to simpler times
an early childhood memory
just one day when i didn’t allow myself to be consumed
by...
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Categories:
growing up, age, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Growing Up Poems
Definition | What is Growing Up in Poetry?