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Mom Growing Up Poems

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


Premium Member That Was Then, Now is Now
Then: 
The sun rises.
My world is small.
Everything has yet to happen.
One day, I'll go to school and learn important things - 
Like my brothers -...

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Categories: age, childhood, growing up,



Premium Member Feeling Groovy
Bell-bottom blue jeans 
were the rage 
when I was that age
'tween twelve and fourteen.
With no money to spend 
on such foolish things,
our lives wouldn't end
without...

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Categories: growing up,

There's A Monster Watching TV With Me!
There’s a Monster Watching TV With Me!
by Lanier Thomas

I know there is a monster watching over my shoulder.
I wouldn’t think that if I were only...

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Categories: growing up, children, imagination,

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 A Cure for A Heartbreak
Whatever he tried before failed,
misery is worse a pain so sharp;
the therapist scratches his head,
and the patient who plays the harp,
looks at him with much...

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Categories: crush, feelings, growing up,

Dinnertime Stories
Did you know that it is dinner, my dear?
You forever in your room thee door shut.
You needeth join us, lend a willing ear? 
Thee father...

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Categories: growing up, childhood, deep, family, for

Growing Up
Your tumbling forth was a joy.
None asked, then, you're a girl of a boy;
We never cried when you cried.
Rather, each one had a smile of...

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Categories: childhood, children, growing up,

Premium Member The Can'T Keep Still Kid
The sun is up, and I'm up. Both the sun and I are up, we're up, we're up
Off with my sleeping clothes, off it goes,...

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

Premium Member Autumns Spring Forth Tears!
Just sitting down in my most visited space looking back with eyes wide open not closed viewing the scene again this time the life took...

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Categories: growing up, appreciation, cheer up, courage,

Leaving Home's Embrace
I used to find sweet solace in fantasizing about leaving home,
Imagining about the deceptive freedom I will have when I'll be on my own.

This thought...

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Categories: appreciation, dad, growing up,

Premium Member We Will Gather 'Round Again
So fondly I remember,
We would gather ‘round and sing
Mom on the piano, as Christmas
Melodies would ring.

Music always brought us joy,
Come and join us, by all...

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© Tom Valles  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, bereavement, christmas, devotion, family,

Premium Member Hardheaded Or Headstrong
Hardheaded Or Headstrong
Miracle Man
7-29-2023

Mom often said Tommy, “you’re too hardheaded”,
I suppose I wasn’t sure just what those words meant.
From childhood these words were deeply embedded,
but...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: best friend, growing up,

Splinters
A crown that is broken cannot be fixed
It has to be replaced 
Changed 
Because a crown that is broken 
Cannot be turned into joy
So why...

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Categories: growing up, absence, angst, anxiety, betrayal,

Premium Member Spare the Rod, Spoil a Child, Story Poem
Back in the early '50s, my Dad believed in,
"Spare the rod, spoil a child," his lesson seeping in.
As a young growing kid, I longed for...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: childhood, growing up,


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