Son Growing Up Poems
These Son Growing Up poems are examples of Growing Up poems about Son. These are the best examples of Growing Up Son poems written by international poets.
Kings Who Beg
Even a stray dog chooses dignity over slavery,
but you — so-called African leaders —
have chosen puppetry.
The Western world laughs at your blindness,
a blindness born of
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Categories:
growing up, abuse, africa, color, dog,
Where Do the Broken Swans Go?
Where do the broken swans go, when lakes forget their name?
Do stars still sing for feathers torn, or whisper them in shame?
The moon once kissed
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Categories:
creation, growing up, growth,
Growing up to fast and coming of age
Growing up to fast,
Coming of age.
Both about maturity but different
One witnessed something they were not supposed to see, while the other saw when ready
One
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Categories:
growing up, abuse, age, father son,
Ode to Fathers
Father – thy name is Strength
And Courage
And Wisdom
Forever art thou the castle
And the Fortress
Of my Faith
Thy name shall be eternal
Within the Mansions
Of my many Dreams
They
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Categories:
growing up, 2nd grade, boy, destiny,
For my Son
I can hear your heartbeat inside me
Even though you're gone.
I prayed for you my whole life.
You finally came,
So full
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growing up, absence, child, depression, grief,
letting go, just
I watch him
gathering days in arms,
like handfuls of sand,
spilling, pouring,
into an hour-glass
with never a grain lost.
His voice, once sweet and melodious,
cracked,
now fed on
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Categories:
boy, childhood, growing up,
The Lie
The Lie
I am an insect waiting to be squashed!
I stare hard at the ground
as if fascinated, enthralled by it
while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt
wait
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Categories:
growing up, anger, anxiety, father, father
A Mother’s love
Detest away.
Whatever you say.
Have it your way.
Who cares anyway?
It doesn’t matter if it’s true.
It’s what you believe… you.
Words from mouths.
No matter how it sounds.
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growing up, absence, abuse, age, child,
It's In Their Nature
‘Twas the night before Christmas and baby
Liz-Beth cried, crawled, and sat waiting for me.
My police neighbor trains a NARC doggy
Liz sees, does, and sits
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Categories:
growing up, allusion, analogy, animal, growing
Trichotomy
Post the garden, then an ocean. Drifting sands caught up in a glass. Inhale and exhale one’s existence known as life, until death parts us
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Categories:
devotion, growing up, heaven,
THE POINT OF TIME
THE POINT OF TIME
From the initial first breath to the very last
Is a life that has to be given room to grow
And time to think,
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Categories:
growing up, perspective, philosophy,
Good Little Boys
Their toys are all strewn across every room
Each soon to be broken or lost.
Their books are forlorn, all tattered and torn
In the corner where they
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Categories:
boy, growing up, son,
1970 Redux
LAST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL
As I was finishing my senior year in high school
I knew I wanted out.
I wasn’t going to college. No desire
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Categories:
growing up,
Growing up
You were a heathen
a tormenting toddler
now a grown young man
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Categories:
growing up, son,
Who Remember the Good Ole Days
Only the Real OG's will remember.
All of these old movies are from back in the day.
Some of you will remember and some of you
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Categories:
change, growing up, life,