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Care for inner selfWe come to life without a choice,
And soon we start to have a voice.
We learn to be so very nice,
And we prepare to pay the price.
When we advance in age and mind,
We also learn to...
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Categories:
birth, care, growing up,
Form: Couplet
Miss Mott
Tall Her Eminence stood, calling my name,
My first-grade teacher of notable fame,
Who had taught most all my kin years before,
Now she was summoning me to her court.
She was judge and jury, penalized fast,
Any wrongdoing or...
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Categories:
growing up, 1st grade, child, growing
Form: Rhyme
I Miss"I miss Saturday mornings with Soul Train,
When brothers and sisters would take a ride to release their pain.
I miss Momma's twice-baked sweet potato pie,
She didn't have a recipe, she just baked with love so she...
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Categories:
growing up, appreciation, beautiful, emotions, growing
Form: Rhyme
The FishLaughter trills through fire
Joy is spun on a lyre
Feathers were just growing in
And the bird watched its kin
Playing, scratching, screaming
I want to play!
You're on fire!
Thats what you say
But my nests been made a pyre
Eating, feasting
Food...
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Categories:
growing up, anger, animal, bullying, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Black and White"Black and white in want of each other, and not in need, inevitably;
of my following sampling's POV," ... by the Poet.
Pandas are loners, though my statement is a misconception of the simple fact of reproduction...
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Categories:
growing up, allusion, analogy, appreciation, color,
Form: Free verse
My dadThere once was a time when I was younger
When the thrills of life I did hunger
But as time has passed
Moments dont last
Where did that all go I do wonder.
(This poem was written in the...
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Categories:
growing up, youth,
Form: Free verse
Divine Disintervention
I don’t trust the angels
They must have stolen my sun
I have worked so hard , done so much
I am so tired I am on my last blood
No sweat left, If I cry I...
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Categories:
growing up, angst, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A 1950s Lancashire LifeSo you want to hear a story, first of all there is no morning glory. Your feet touch the floor its cold as ice as is the water, what a surprise.
With sleepy eyes you look...
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Categories:
child, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Soul's CryIn the depths of her eyes,
I found a world untold,
Secrets swirling like eddies.
In a river of gold.
Eyes, they say, are windows.
To the soul's inner lore,...
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Categories:
growing up,
Form: Ballad
Growing PainsOne spring, within its patient cross
To summer's gain from winter's loss,
With flowers varied colors hue
A girl befriended someone new
in her life.
Someone quite special she had found
To share deep secrets, volumes bound,
Of special thoughts and memories...
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Categories:
growing up, emotions, fate, feelings, first
Form: Rhyme
One, two, three, Then a change of sceneOne, two, three,
Then a change of scene.
Falls were always so calm,
The winters comfortable.
Summers were warm,
But the spring was always a little unstable.
The only constant in my life has been change,...
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Categories:
growing up, anxiety, autumn, betrayal, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
'SILLY' ME“Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me and I’ll laugh at you.” - Anonymous
Silliness is not a curse, it's a blessing if you...
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Categories:
confidence, growing up, happiness,
Form: List
MarigoldI am a dainty, colorful marigold.
Or at least that's the story I'm told.
I was born in a big, green, and grassy yard.
Growing up was awfully hard.
But now, my fiery orange petals are out,
And I can...
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Categories:
growing up, beauty, creation, flower, growing
Form: Personification
One Man, Giant VisionChicago, Illinois was his birthplace.
He was a man of the white race.
A move to a small midwestern town,
And an idea for a famous street formed in his crown.
In school, he realized he loved to draw,
Beautiful...
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Categories:
growing up, career, character, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
If there was just one thing I could change Poetry Contest
Categories:
growing up, community, cute, giggle, growing
Form: Couplet
Specific Types of Growing Up Poems
Definition | What is Growing Up in Poetry?