Long Growing up Poems
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I Can't Just Change Overnight part 1(Inspired by my sister, Laura Breidenthal’s poem called “The Dream in His Eyes” and also, inspired by Disturbed’s song “Forsaken”. Special thanks to my sister for such an awesome poem and the writer that wrote...
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Categories:
growing up, angst, dark, deep, depression, desire, loneliness, words,
Form:
Free verse
The first Valentine poem, circa 1415The First Valentine Poem
Charles d’Orleans (1394-1465) has been credited with writing the first Valentine poem for his wife in 1415. Charles wrote the first Valentine poem in the first year of his captivity while being...
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Categories:
growing up, heart, love, passion, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
To Be A Friend PleaserI heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling,
Have I felt more of the need to...
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Categories:
change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
Prescribing ReBirth to DT2DT2 came to me, unwillingly and clandestinely,
only because he was referred by his mother,
who was concerned that he was growing up and out
to become an ego-terrorist,
and she had heard of my feminist work as ecotherapist--
so...
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Categories:
growing up, birth, body, culture, health, humor, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried not to retract,
but after so many tears
I have...
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Categories:
growing up, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal, children, confusion, family,
Form:
Free verse
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
growing up, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
LA SewersWhen I was a child in the streets of Los Angeles you would sized up groups approaching by watching the movements they made.
I remember this group/gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while...
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Categories:
abuse, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
Random Excerpts from Ice in my Eyes, Smoke in Yours - A Novel"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...
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Categories:
fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Poems about Children IIPoems about Children II
On Looking into Curious George’s Mirrors
by Michael R. Burch
for Maya McManmon, granddaughter of the poet Jim McManmon
Maya was made in the image of God;
may the reflections she sees in those curious mirrors
always...
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Categories:
growing up, child, childhood, children, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandparents,
Form:
Rhyme
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
growing up, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Xenophobia pt 1TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...
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Categories:
growing up, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Family TherapyFeminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in permacultural eco-logic,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their camouflage.
A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most articulate mentors often wander off
to pray for,
breathe and suffer and dance...
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Categories:
growing up, addiction, endurance, environment, health, judgement, political, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
10 things I hate about me1 - I can't be alone
I struggle to be by myself because my dark thoughts come
But when I'm with people my heart is numb
On top of a lot of pain is what I built my...
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Categories:
deep, emotions, encouraging, growing up, growth, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
BadBoy MonoTheistsWhere do we think all this economic and politically empowering
cooperative
nutritional
organically luscious imagination
and ecologically exegetical orthopraxis
started?
George Lakoff speaks of strictly straight stern paternalistic God the Universalist Fathers,
vertically Winning over an otherwise Loser, yet highly competitive, ecopolitical...
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Categories:
growing up, games, health, integrity, math, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Final LullabyFinal Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.
Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.
Sleep peacefully—like fields of fragrant clover
unmoved by any motion of the wind.
Sleep...
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Categories:
growing up, death, eulogy, funeral, Lullaby, mother, mother son,
Form:
Lyric
AlohaHello? Are you there today?
Have I scared you away?
Spent my whole teenage life,
Preparing for this day of strife
To say my goodbye's
To your love-me-not lies
Oh well, oh well
I'm not saying farewell
Where do you dwell?
In...
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Categories:
growing up, deep, desire, emotions, encouraging, feelings, grief, growing
Form:
Lyric
Dad, continued...cont
Breath...
You once said to me,"I'm a man of extremes," and I understood immediately what you meant. When you drank, you drank hard. When you worked you expected perfection, in yourself not others, because...
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Categories:
growing up, dad,
Form:
Elegy
The MirrorThe Mirror
When I look in the mirror I don’t see me, I see who I used to be. A little lost girl that was so abused and so misused, so ashamed of who she...
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Categories:
change, child abuse, endurance, family, growing up,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Misconception of MiseryIt only started as a misconception, a misunderstanding
then like grass fed rain, it grew...grew into this
A eulogy, maybe this could be it
about you? For once, this is about me
How can it be...how can it be?
Dreaming,...
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Categories:
growing up, how i feel, , 8th grade, ,
Form:
Bio
Growing Up, La - Part 1- - - Chapter 1: Early Days - - -
My father was a rich man, la, *
Though schooled in poverty, (1)
As such he seldom raised his head,
Displayed humility.
The center of the...
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Categories:
growing up, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
DOLLY DAMIAN FRIENDS and FAMILY part IIThe fifth floor was decorated
With fancy art work. Molly
Rang the bell. After a few
Minutes an attractive older
Woman answered the door.
She threw the door wide Open
After she saw them
with Damian. "Hello Hello...
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Categories:
confidence, family, feelings, friend, friendship, growing up,
Form:
Alliteration
MeI was born to be a survivor and a fighter.
That's why I became a writer.
As a child the physical abuse I endured.
Being a baby it was pretty absurd.
The child of recovering addicts.
Even one that still...
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Categories:
growing up, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, depression, drug, how
Form:
Rhyme
Marat and Charlotte 3Act 3. A dark, empty stage.
Marat
(standing up)
My eyes went blank. That's how it goes when
you have been doubly knocked flat on your back
in half an hour. He went, he went,
he went, he went, he went,...
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Categories:
growing up, death, love,
Form:
Blank verse
Narcissistic SisterYou are a narcissist and a gas lighter although you claim that you’re not, can’t you see inside, the decay of your soul? The turmoil, all of the rot
I guess that you can’t because...
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Categories:
growing up, bullying, emotions, little sister, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Populist PoliticsWhen I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,
Which would have given me pause
in that comparatively naive age
of green longing for...
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Categories:
growing up, bullying, earth, environment, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse