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Dad Growing Up Poems

These Dad Growing Up poems are examples of Growing Up poems about Dad. These are the best examples of Growing Up Dad poems written by international poets.


Growing Pains
It 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...

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Categories: age, friendship, growing up,



Premium Member Help Me
Help 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...

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Categories: growing up, child, dog, drug, education,

My dad
There 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...

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Categories: growing up, youth,

Premium Member Ewe'll Do Just Fine
Hey, little lost Lamb,
get with the program.

Which Ewe you belong,
there'd Ewe's graze beyond.

Be there just one Ewe,
one Ewe that you knew.

Why'd you look at me,
for...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,

My missing piece
Oh I’m looking for my missing piece
Hi-dee ho, here I go 
It’s been two days since you left
It feels like I’ve been rolling for centuries
You’re...

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Categories: growing up, bereavement, child, dad, growing



A mother's daughter part 1
You look just like your mother my relatives often cry and when they do the words fall upon my ears like knives. 

They say I...

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© Geo dude  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, absence, christian, family, gender,

the way we used to be
From learning the abc’s, to count from 1 to 3 your favorite uncle singing the twelve days of Christmas, the particular line a partridge in...

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Categories: growing up, abuse, age, child, deep,

Premium Member Christmas Wishes from the Parents
The idea of Christmas snow in Michigan is replaced with fog
Hot breath exhaled to cold lollipop trees
My blurry life-sized polar bear salutes through the front...

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Categories: growing up, children, christmas, eve, growing

Premium Member We Thought Forever Was True
"If forever is true, make it true, don't give it a second thought," ... by The Poet

"Okay kids, this is December's first day
so let's go...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, analogy, change, crush, growing

Ohh dear grandma!
Ohh dear Grandma! 
I love your 'papadum'
I miss the time when you offered me to come
With you at the porch
When the sun had scorched
To help...

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Categories: growing up, grandchild, grandmother, grandparents, growing

Dinnertime Stories
Did you know that it is dinner, my dear?
You forever in your room thee door shut.
You needeth join us, lend a willing ear? 
Thee father...

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Categories: growing up, childhood, deep, family, for

Leaving Home's Embrace
I used to find sweet solace in fantasizing about leaving home,
Imagining about the deceptive freedom I will have when I'll be on my own.

This thought...

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Categories: appreciation, dad, growing up,

Premium Member Broken
his baby daughter
tossed aside like a rag doll
dad wanted a son

my mother told him
that I was ‘the next best thing’
at least she loved me!

always second...

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Categories: feelings, growing up, me,

Splinters
A crown that is broken cannot be fixed
It has to be replaced 
Changed 
Because a crown that is broken 
Cannot be turned into joy
So why...

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Categories: growing up, absence, angst, anxiety, betrayal,

Premium Member Spare the Rod, Spoil a Child, Story Poem
Back in the early '50s, my Dad believed in,
"Spare the rod, spoil a child," his lesson seeping in.
As a young growing kid, I longed for...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: childhood, growing up,


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