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Dark Growing Up Poems

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


The Passenger
Born in December on a cold winter’s day
I was baptised a Christian without any say
My life given direction before I could walk
A school then chosen...

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Categories: growing up, dark, depression, farewell, growing



Divine Magnetism
I am holding your eyes, feeling your words,
The waves gently overwhelm me, coaxing,
Pulling me under and luring me in.
Recede, leaving me freezing, shivering.

I am holding...

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Categories: growing up, break up, conflict, crush,

growing old
The pillow queen stokes her empire
her quivering hand follows her letter
to all it may concern

cry in the dark
although she maybe strong,
made out of ploughshares
the sun...

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Categories: growing up, analogy,

What an Adventure
We’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...

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© Mark West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, adventure, childhood, fun, growing

the shadow self wants to dance
i’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...

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Categories: growing up, age, angst, anxiety, dark,



Premium Member growing up
Sometimes I wonder, what is it like to be an adult?
To live alone, to work, to reach 18?
To get your driver's license, to cook in...

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Categories: courage, growing up, life,

Another Perspective
I think at first perhaps she pitied me
With my fumbling teenaged kissing
But to her as a separated mother 
I provided some love she was missing.
She...

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Categories: first love, growing up,

Premium Member Echoes of the Heart

             Echoes of the Heart


I’ve walked this street before, through slick remnants of...

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Categories: growing up, dark, deep, desire, gothic,

Premium Member 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...

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

One, two, three, Then a change of scene
One, 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...

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Categories: growing up, anxiety, autumn, betrayal, childhood,

Premium Member Overgrown
You say your room is a confinement 
where you’re forced to have tea parties with your greatest enemy; your thoughts 
But looking through your window...

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Categories: growing up, best friend, dark, growing

The anxiety of betrayal
A little red fox 
Entered the forest one night
The moon failed to pass through the canopy
A dark crunch he felt, as he walked each time
...

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Categories: growing up, anger, anxiety, change, childhood,

Rami
The lovechild of a god and a poet 
Your eyes in that photo
They spoke of kindness and innocence
The heart on your neck, I took as...

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Categories: dog, growing up, love,

A bruised lover's resolve
He's been part hero part villain
Struggling with her toying
His babe's tossed his heart in a grinder
Yet smiles at him
He know what u doing
It hurts like...

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Categories: growing up, analogy, dark, feelings, friendship

Premium Member What's Cookin' in the Old Crone's Cauldron?
the old crone’s dome boiled
skull scalding, full of trouble and toil
oily face, razorburn neck 
my eyes the type to scan
salamander like
darting here to there
wondering where...

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Categories: growing up, addiction, dark, drug, growing


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