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Metaphor Growing Up Poems

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


When I Took the Old Way to Ames

I passed spreads of field
the places where farmers
made livings from soil.
The view enticed
but I couldn’t stop.
I couldn’t stop
but I couldn’t forget
times spent on uncle farms
before
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Categories: growing up, memory, travel,



The Tutu and the Gown: A Fairy's Dilemma

Roaming in the corridor,
The fairy chuckled,
Mesmerized by the beauty of her own dress,
She grew self-assured in her little fairy school.

The multi-colored tutu,
inlaid with wild flowers;
Rivaled
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Categories: growing up, allegory, courage, endurance, extended

Tiger Stripes

My mother says
Stretch marks are tiger stripes
Primordial waves 
Of growth 
And change
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Categories: growing up, image, metaphor,

The Mirror

I opened my eyes when it was too late.
The river passed before my wide-open eyes.
I missed my childhood;
I was a prisoner in my mind.
Neither God
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Categories: extended metaphor, growing up,

Premium Member to blooming on

keep on becoming,
let mind, spirit, and soul sprout;
blooming your nature:-
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Categories: allegory, encouraging, growing up,



The Little Bead

We lie in our class,
Not really intrigued or puzzled,
By the mundane subjects that keep us muddled.
Some may admire the beauty that surrounds us;
Of the trees
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Categories: children, growing up, memory,

Growing Anger

The boy has a garden
of which he is proud.
It's a safe place for him
when the world is too loud.

In it he grows joy,
and fear
and laughter
and
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Categories: growing up, anger, boy, extended metaphor,

Does it really matter

Does it really matter where words come from ?
Aren’t words just words or sounds heard with our ears passed on from one mouth to another
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© Shay Mosby  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anger, conflict, growing up,

My heart is a graveyard

My heart is a graveyard,
Where i buried the people
Who never returned, leaving me
Haunted by their broken promises. 

The chambers carry the hidden scars,
And the ashes
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Categories: anxiety, grief, growing up,

From Rose to Rosewood

Pigtails sat tightly on her head
Curls poking through
And framing her face.
The bear kept her company,
Sat close by her head.
The dolls sat carefully placed
Drinking tea around
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Categories: growing up, emotions, flower, goodbye, imagery,

The words

The words

    1. If my words were sand, they will drag me from my feet and sink me into the eternal abyss.

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Categories: anger, beautiful, growing up,

Premium Member Coming Of Age, The Rite



a tender voice recites, muse’s lyrics flow                  
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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, celebration, childhood, courage, emotions,

Understanding Space

The spilling of a brain,
Thoughts that can’t be contained,
The crumbling membrane.

An agnostic wreck that cries out I’m four years old
5,6,14,17

A botanical solar system expect all
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Categories: growing up, environment, extended metaphor, 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,

The Gift Box

I was handed a beautiful gift box
On my twentieth birthday. 
A bold scripted message was waving me to the right. 
It was beautiful!

The gift box
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Categories: growing up, beauty, blessing, devotion, growing


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