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Introspection Growing Up Poems

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


Tainted Travel
Time and mind unravel 
A maze of rose tainted gravel 
Whispers life’s secrets...

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Categories: growing up, introspection, life,



Premium Member Scenes of Childhood
Running fancy free into a field,
Chasing butterflies my path revealed,
My arms outstretched into the sky,
I am so happy--not caring why.
Cooled by a fragrant soft Spring...

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Categories: growing up, introspection, nostalgia,

With all due disrespect
I stand unapologetically me;
Unafraid to be different, unafraid to be bold,
I stand for the truth for it is gold
I raise my voice; let it be...

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Categories: growing up, growth, introspection,

Premium Member '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.” -...

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© MB Farookh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: confidence, growing up, happiness,

Premium Member Should I Fear My Autumn
should I fear my autumn
when Juniper wilts with me
and the sagging stars above
edge closer to the sea

should I fear my autumn
with winter still to show
my...

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Categories: growing up, angst, anxiety, fear, introspection,



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

Premium Member The Traveller
The midnight pokes out from under the dirt,
navy, with chrome trim, catching the moon’s eye,
that Ally Sheedy fringe can’t help but flirt,
as her 1970’s Audi...

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Categories: growing up, identity, introspection,

Premium Member Lessons of Life
As fortunes wax and wane 
In life’s large swells and swales, 
We try to ponder and remain 
The person who, in youth, prevailed. 
But our...

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Categories: fate, growing up, identity,

Premium Member Mysteries of the Abandoned
Breathe deeply my legacy,
My mysterious abandonments
My asylums of the dead.
So many forgotten dwellings
Now boarded up and cold.
I once wore them and shed them
Like snakeskins.
All these...

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Categories: age, character, growing up,

This year
This whole year has seen me through it all
From going and going till I hit a wall
And since I've been moving for a while,
it was...

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Categories: growing up, heartbroken, introspection,

Premium Member Temporal Tides
Oh my cursed child, out there you are exiled
Only the wind to embrace your sorrow
Seek shelter within that soul of yours
Before there is no tomorrow

These...

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Categories: growing up, anxiety, deep, depression, freedom,

Premium Member Every child is an artist-- the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up --Picasso
Your duck's the wrong color
--my kindergarten teacher said
(after all these years, hard to get it outta my head)
but Eric Carle proves her wrong
colorful animals-- dancing...

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Categories: growing up, art, childhood, color, growing

Premium Member My Song
Not so many years ago,
In the mirror, my reflection would show…
Gentle eyes, a giggling smile,
Ivory skin that looked pudgy and smooth,
Like the subtle whisper of...

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Categories: appreciation, childhood, growing up,

Premium Member Growing Up
Growing up we find that head rules the heart,
that we may navigate earth life with care
but from light of love now standing apart,
of soul’s fall...

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Categories: growing up, introspection, spiritual,

Remember November
Remember November, the start of Winter,
The slow coming through the cold—
Where the pure its celestial gift see 
A bare, broken essence that is timeless, old.

The...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, inspirational, introspection,


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