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Home Growing Up Poems

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


LILY
In a somber house on Maple Street, where shadows creep,
Lived Lily, a child, in silence she'd weep.
With every creak of the floorboards at night,
She'd hold...

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Categories: growing up, anger, child, child abuse,



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,

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

Premium Member A betrayal of innocense
Youth is a deep,
                   colorful green as...

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

Premium Member The beatiful Pinups On My Wall Growing Up Rewrite
When I was growing up
I was so struck by the beauties
I Saw on TV and in magazines
I became obsessed with thinking about them
One day I'll...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, age, desire, sensual, sexy,



The Fish
Laughter 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...

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Categories: growing up, anger, animal, bullying, depression,

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 Where did all the time go?
In the hush of twilight, whispers soft and low,
"Where'd all the time go?" a lament we know.
Echoes of laughter, fading in the mist,
Nostalgia's gentle touch,...

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Categories: emotions, growing up, time,

Cowden Beach, East Riding
The cliffs are being  eaten away 
By the constant pulsing tide.
Now just a short walk from the lane
When it  was once a short...

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Categories: growing up, memory, nostalgia,

Bleeding Memories
In a world unknown where time's river flows in a different arc.
My mother is without kin, no birthing marks.
No drugs seduction, no choices dire,
No shadows...

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Categories: daughter, family, growing up,

Grow Up!
She sleeps late. She 
Hates school. She 
Wears nightgowns. She 
Stares at the stars. She 
Laughs like She 
Loves life. She 
Flies home. She'll 
Grow...

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Categories: growing up,

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 Ivan the Younger
There is a game we play
but played by no one else
The same game you can play
If you play it by yourself.

I had long ago wondered
of...

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

HE CARES
HE CARES

In the shadows of doubt, she roamed
Lost in the labyrinth of a broken home
Her spirit crushed, her heart unknown
But in her brothers' love, a...

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Categories: blessing, growing up, growth,


Book: Shattered Sighs