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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 1415
The 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
Premium Member Chapter 64 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen- Vacation Xiv
Damian Stood with the front 
Door opened and said,  "Family! 
We will be leaving in fifteen 
Minutes. Do whatever you have
To before we hit the road. Use
The bathroom whatever! 
Come on!! HAKIM!! About 7
minutes...

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Categories: growing up, bridal shower, business, chanukah, child, devotion, father
Form: Alliteration
To Be a Friend Pleaser
I 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
Premium Member Prescribing Rebirth To Dt2
DT2 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



Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I 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
Premium Member 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member LA Sewers
When I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.

I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...

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Categories: growing up, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Children Ii
Poems 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
Premium Member 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 1
TITLE:
       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
For Onion Pt 2
I miss the old days where only you had my key
I miss the old times - running wild and free
I miss the old house and your pool and banana tree
I miss the days when it...

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Categories: growing up, child,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Badboy Monotheists
Where 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
10 Things I Hate About Me
1 - 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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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deep, emotions, encouraging, growing up, growth, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Final Lullaby
Final 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
Aloha
Hello? 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member The Mirror
The 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 Misery
It 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Chapter 24 -- Dolly Damian Friends and Family Part Ii
The 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
A Rhyme Into My Active Prescription Medication Addiction, and the Start of My Recovery
TRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc 

I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a bed to be left in whaling, waiting, 
Finally a nurse...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addiction, child, cry, emotions, evil, growing up,
Form: Free verse
You and I Know How To Glow
V. 1: I have been grimacing lately
I have been loving you extremely
I’m looking forward to going to Oregon
We welcome the sun, we welcome the sun

Pre-chorus: God, have mercy on my weary soul
Have mercy spiritually speaking
Passion...

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Categories: growing up, hope, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Me
I 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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© Erica Berg  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: growing up, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, depression, drug, how
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things