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Summer Growing Up Poems

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


Premium Member Do Poets Always Walk in the Rain
Do poets always walk in the rain?
This poet once did
When she was but a kid.
The bathwater of summer drops
Cascading from suburban chimney tops,
Puddles on pavement
Begging...

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Categories: childhood, growing up, innocence,



DAYS OF OLD 30's
We had;
Interlude and
of Mice and men.
   A star is born and
Gone with the wind.

   A child bride and
The Wizard of Oz.
...

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Categories: growing up,

One, two, three, Then a change of scene
One, two, three, 
Then a change of scene. 

Falls were always so calm, 
The winters comfortable. 
Summers were warm,
But the spring was always a little...

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Categories: growing up, anxiety, autumn, betrayal, childhood,

Cowden Beach, East Riding
The cliffs are being  eaten away 
By the constant pulsing tide.
Now just a short walk from the lane
When it  was once a short...

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Categories: growing up, memory, nostalgia,

Premium Member ON THE CUSP OF BECOMING


Every so often, my mind wanders back to the summer of my youth, where a specific memory awaits. 

Having completed my first year at University,...

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Categories: growing up, age, brother, future, growing



Crush
Young in summer,
Admiring you from afar,
Knowing I had no chance,
But dreaming none-the-less,
To catch your glance.

Never having,
Was easier than losing,
Wanting is more kind,
than Longing, for what,
can...

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Categories: growing up, crush, first love, growing

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,

Premium Member Refreshments
laughter arises
beneath the spreading birches
close-knit cousins play...

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Categories: growing up, age, best friend, growing

The Barefoot Village Woman
On the other side of the village, there lived an old woman.
Every day, she walked barefoot on a country dusty road,
passing by our neighborhood.

In the...

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Categories: childhood, creation, growing up,

Premium Member Leeza
(Leeza, my roommate Lisa’s little sister, was off-tha-hook earlier this summer)

thirteen
peach flesh
fabuk buster
nu-metal priss
sexless breasts
bitten fingernails
dirty babyskin feet
mirror mesmerized
straight-eyed honesty
grouchapottamus
without analysis
corollary sister
wide eyed
hot mess
skinny
pacer
bella
doe
.
.
Webster: Corollary:...

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Categories: emo, growing up, humor,

Premium Member A Daisy Tale
*** A DAISY TALE ***

A single, wild, tiny daisy
Less than a thumbnail in size, swaying side to side
In the slight, burning whiffs of a summer’s...

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Categories: firework, growing up, imagery,

Screen Door Summers
Dusty and distraught the afternoon laid out 
like a sun-shaped jewel ahead of us. 
Our marble eyes will fill up with salty tears
and the rivers...

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Categories: growing up, beautiful, birthday,

Fantasy Land
fantasy land
i live in a fantasy land
where i have it all sorted out
my mother's hand
and a green porch with flower bands lying around

in a summer...

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Categories: growing up, 11th grade, dream, emotions,

Premium Member Foundation of Dawn
Dawn brings tenderest dewdrop dreams
Breathtaking promises will sing
Inviting joy in soft sunbeams
Blazing paths with sweetness of spring

First light whispers gentle traces
Amazing the spirit, praising
Combining kind...

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Categories: growing up, appreciation, flower, garden, growth,

Premium Member Break
Break

Daybreak
Summer break, 
Winter break... 
Fall.

Heartache
Mistake
Awake
Don't be fake...
Life is at stake.

Make a difference, 
and then, eat cake
for goodness sake....

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Categories: growing up, 1st grade, angel, chocolate,


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