Soldier Growing Up Poems
These Soldier Growing Up poems are examples of Growing Up poems about Soldier. These are the best examples of Growing Up Soldier poems written by international poets.
Snuggling in
Snuggling in with my 'Mushie'*
singing bed-time lullabies
Watching the smile on his face
eyes close,...
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Categories:
growing up, child, good night, growing
Bitter Sweet MemoriesEarly winter morning remembering
From the soft warm depths
Of an old man’s bed:
Walking through dark streets
Shivering with cold, thinking of
The soft warm bed she’d...
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Categories:
first love, growing up,
There and Back AgainI’m my mind I could recall
All those friends faces
Almost hear voices as
I sat in old loved places
A callow youth when I arrived,
A misfit out...
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Categories:
bereavement, emotions, growing up,
The Young CoquetteWhat do I call that young coquette?
My shadow self; my silhouette.
Those clothes, that hair, a cigarette.
The joie de vivre; the vain regret.
What sort of...
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Categories:
growing up, age, appreciation, courage, growing
A Pillowcase BackpackA pillowcase backpack, camping under the kitchen table.
Lost in imagination, deaf to strife.
In every way full of wonder of life.
Holed up in...
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Categories:
growing up, adventure, childhood, grandfather, grandparents,
The FloodMy cup overflows.
Water runs from the glass to the rim,
churning forth,
flooding everything that lies in it's path.
What is this?
It seeps
into all the cracks and crevices,
all...
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Categories:
growing up, for her, for him,
Toy SoldiersToy Soldiers
Four tiny men who did survive
Held onto one another staying alive
At night the door would open, and the giant shadow appeared...
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Categories:
growing up, betrayal, child abuse, childhood,
Tragic WisdomDreamer
In my boyhood I waded shoal creeks;
Veins of living waters swirling past my
Ankles; returning home, grinding stones.
I asked: How are rain drops like millstones?
I...
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Categories:
growing up, conflict, confusion, discrimination, growing
The Soldier's Wife, Part II was a young man when I saw her,
and things certainly began to stir.
Of course, I was only seventeen,
and young minds don’t take much convincing.
She...
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Categories:
age, growing up, lust,
The Soldier's Wife, Part Ii...When I got my own sweet fiancé,
it forced a rethinking of that day.
I knew the trust I had in my love,
and it so quickly began...
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Categories:
age, growing up, lust,
The Growing YearsNever knew my Dad when I was a lad,
Never knew what it was like,
to go for a walk, and hold his hand.
My, if I did,...
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Categories:
growing up, childhood, military,
Lori - the Shadow of a Lighter PoemLori (the shadow of a lighter poem)
Lori, I'm not in love with you, but I do think that you are pretty;
so with a pathetic chance...
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Categories:
desire, growing up, hurt,
Battle CryI am as subtle as the maker who made me;
I’m not the strongest,
I’m not the bravest,
I’m not the luckiest,
I’m not the smartest,
And definitely not the...
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Categories:
growing up, confidence, courage, desire, endurance,
Virtuous StarThe broken feeling you learn it young
You must for it's certainty true
No hysterical fits just stiff upper lips
We are British and that's what we do
So...
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Categories:
growing up, death, england,
My Darling DaughterMy darling daughter, where do I begin?
I missed so much of your growing up,
Though that, I know is not my sin,
Yet, you have...
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Categories:
child, girl, growing up,