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Sad Growing Up Poems

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


Mothered
opposite the I,
is where i reside.
endure and bide,
endlessly.

You see My person,
nod at this version,
never question My identity,
You're right in me, not entirely.

Your gaze cant see,
everything...

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Categories: childhood, depression, growing up,



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,

If only
I hated all those lessons and rules 
Playing sports in the cold and the rain
Exams, tests and essays in schools
l won’t need this stuff in...

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Categories: growing up, high school,

Secrets
Are secrets good or bad, 
this one, it drives me mad
Can a secret hurt someone
Like friends or my loved one. 

This secret has me troubled
My...

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Categories: growing up, abuse, anti bullying, courage,

Premium Member Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill
we tell our kids this story all day long
but Jill was bitter and she was savvy
and she went to...

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Categories: growing up,



Premium Member Walking by; I can feel you
Walking, walking, thinking
One mood of music, one single song
Repeating, repeating, repeating…
…fading in and out of my consciousness 
Now the cold breeze making me feel formal...

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Categories: growing up, child, day, emotions, growing

Premium Member Bunny
He’s a sad Bunny
With floppy ears
Sadly button eyes
they can’t shed tears

Bottom of the pile
New toys on top
He needed Beth’s help
To hippity hop

With imagination 
she brought...

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Categories: growing up, best friend, change, friendship,

Inflicted
You've made me feel
weak
Pathetic
Small
You've made me feel
Inadequate
Shameful 
unloveable 
And raw
You halted my dance 
And forced me to crawl
You taught me true fear
I'll never trust anyone
Ever...

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Categories: abuse, growing up,

Old Boy
Old Boy

In the valley
Of my soul
Lives a boy
Who never grows old

The kid’s a keeper
Of my regrets
He holds the key
To all my secrets

He opens the book
Of...

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Categories: betrayal, childhood, growing up,

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,

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 Growing Resilience
Better together
than falling apart.

Inside I sigh
between sad traumas,
mad bad dramas
fading together
when not
not
not thought and felt glad

Better left together
than falling
falling
falling right wing exhausted
apart

Outside we cry
for fair...

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Categories: growing up, health, integrity, journey, light,

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,

Yawning All Morning
Millie Brown was 12 years old.
Who didn’t like to do as she was told.
She didn’t eat her greens or even brush her hair,
As she’d spend...

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Categories: growing up, addiction, child, education, for

I Hate Me
why was i even born
my teachers like me
my friends like me
even think i’m funny

but my mom hates me
she hates me
she thinks i’m a burden
and that...

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Categories: growing up, angst, birth, cry, growing


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