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Time Growing Up Poems

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


The Passenger
Born in December on a cold winter’s day
I was baptised a Christian without any say
My life given direction before I could walk
A school then chosen...

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Categories: growing up, dark, depression, farewell, growing



Premium Member Incarnate
I
There you are in your white dress
Marching in for all to see
A little taller than the rest
Incarnate joy and purity 

Your father looking on with...

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Categories: growing up, best friend, birthday, family,

Premium Member Getting Older
There's more rust in my joints than ever.
My bones sound like an old screen door,
and my knees predict the weather
better than any app.
Give me elastic...

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Categories: growing up, age, old,

Tainted Travel
Time and mind unravel 
A maze of rose tainted gravel 
Whispers life’s secrets...

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Categories: growing up, introspection, life,

Construct or Not
Pulling and pushing and dancing up and down

Like monkeys no one is watching but the behaved crowd
Who paid to expect what they came to see...

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Categories: growing up, conflict, culture, fate, freedom,



DAYS THAT I USED TO KNOW
DAYS THAT I USED TO KNOW

People used to say I like the olden days
Most of the time it was easy to find your way
Before people...

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Categories: age, day, growing up,

Premium Member That Was Then, This 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,

Fear
I used to be afraid:
afraid of being disrespected,
afraid of losing,
afraid of staying alone,
afraid of being cheated.
Now with the passing of time
and growing age,
with continuity of...

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Categories: growing up, allegory, encouraging, fear, growing

ME BEING A GROWN-UP
ME BEING A GROWN-UP

Every day my life was changing
I didn't realize how fast it was happening
Sometimes I wonder where all the time go
It seems like...

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Categories: age, feelings, growing up,

What an Adventure
We’d go exploring along the river and through the woods,
We’d run, and we’d whoop, then go silently to try and see a rabbit if we...

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© Mark West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, adventure, childhood, fun, growing

the shadow self wants to dance
i’m here, nor there, sometimes everywhere
a storm brewing

inside i’m darker
i’ve sailed these seas before

repetition becomes habit 
take me back to simpler times

an early childhood memory
just...

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Categories: growing up, age, angst, anxiety, dark,

Premium Member A betrayal of innocense
Youth is a deep,
                   colorful green as...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, allusion, analogy, appreciation, growing

Premium Member That Was Then And This Is Now
Beautifully captured
The essence of time
In the past we are captured
But the present is prime

Lessons and heartaches
Shadows and scars
Through the dance of time
Shapes us to be...

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Categories: change, growing up, growth,

Who is truly free, what is true freedom?


In the depths of our souls, where shackles crumble to dust,
There lies the essence of freedom, in which we all must trust.
It's not in chains...

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Categories: growing up, good morning, gothic, granddaughter,

Growing From The Ground Up
I started as a seed,
Took my time and slowly started
to grow, grow, and grow.

Overtime I also learned, 
learned and learned.
I learned lessons,
lots and lots of...

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Categories: growing up, growth,


Book: Shattered Sighs