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Graduation Growing Up Poems

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


Nine Shorts - Ilgop, Yeodeol, Ahop
Graduation
Limbs that quake with nerves
Soon stiffen.
An extended arm, poker straight,
Leads her across the stage
Slowly and gracefully
To the next, unwritten page of her life.
She wields her...

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Categories: growing up, graduation, heartbreak, lonely, lost



Rising Star
To the boy who battled dragons
In the mists of yesteryear
Did you ever imagine
That you’d be standing here?

To the man who’s made of stardust
Our brightest son...

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Categories: growing up, brother, childhood, family, graduation,

Graduation
We will read like our lives depended on it
Because to many of us, we assumed it did 
And then we will pass, or fail or...

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Categories: growing up, 12th grade, farewell, for

Shifting Wings Lifted
Canal channel calm
              Calm swan route rowed
     ...

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Categories: growing up, absence, allusion, encouraging, father

Premium Member Freedom
Freedom 

I can go outside. 
I can go inside. 
I can climb a mountain, 
or swim in the sea. 

Freedom. 

I am free....

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, beach, beautiful, best friend,



Farewell
A lilting angel,
Walking her way.

One step has she covered,
With her wavy, carefree gait.

Bouncing back & forth on her way,
The one she chooses for her fate.

Destined...

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Categories: growing up, farewell, goodbye, graduate, graduation,

A Letter To My Future Self
A Letter to My Future Self
By Echo Hicks

Dear Future Me, 

Hi, it’s you from your senior year of high school. 
Do you remember me at...

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© Echo Hicks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, 12th grade, age, career,

The Dreams
THE DREAMS

Surely, one day

We will have to get to our way

Forgetting the bad past

Hoping for the good future really fast.



Working day and night

Whether under a...

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Categories: growing up, 12th grade, adventure, allegory,

Premium Member Best Boy Beyond
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Best Boy Beyond

Precocious...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boy, education, growing up,

There For Me
Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Categories: growing up, 12th grade, character, hope,

Premium Member Intellectual Properties
A property needing protect 
Postal delivers reads address printed “the intellect”
A smart move it would be 
To arm oneself with the concept known as the...

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Categories: growing up, class, education, graduation, growing

Premium Member Sister Hilda Marie of Ind
She was the sparkle at the heart of it
The love we all shared
I don’t remember a day that passed by, 
without her friendly smile or...

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Categories: growing up, celebration, character, death of

First Steps
First Steps
by Michael R. Burch

for Caitlin Shea Murphy

To her a year is like infinity,
each day—an adventure never-ending.
She has no concept of time,
but already has begun...

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Categories: growing up, age, child, childhood, children,

Premium Member The Graduate
Sweet blooms in golden hour's wake,
As a diploma is given with handshake.
To blue-gold skies over glassy lake,
Scarlet redbird, the clouds overtake!

Nature is alive, and so...

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Categories: growing up, daughter, future, graduation, growing

Premium Member Pomp and Circumstance
A chapter ends in cap and gown.    What lies ahead?    Turn the page and write....

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: graduation, growing up,


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