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Outgrown Poems - Poems about Outgrown

When We Were Us

...You stood behind, not saying much,
Yet in the hush, I felt your touch.
The mirror framed our quiet grace,
Two souls in love, one warm embrace.
You'd watch me comb, your eyes so still,
The room w...
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Categories: outgrown, deep, fate, giggle, i
Form: Rhyme

REALITY OF LIFE

...When you're hot
I mean when you start 
Glowing or winning 
Instead of them to flow 
They start looking for faults
Bringing the past you've outgrown to shine
Just to bring you down
Stay strong,...
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Categories: outgrown, africa, children, community, deep,
Form: Didactic



Premium MemberMarriage of Two Minds

...Behold us one, the marriage of two minds,
Two creatures of cross-continental births,
With force of love the universe combines, 
Find, in each other, home, a fount of mirth. 

Behold us cleaved, ...
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Categories: outgrown, love, passion, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme

MY REQUEST

...Oh God of Creation 
Direct 
My creativity and productivity 
So I can fly out of this nation 
Even with slow motion but no stagnation 
Thriving and striving globally not locally
Without any comm...
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Categories: outgrown, africa, blessing, creation, dedication,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membersitting in Cousins Park

...I usually give my dogs a treat in Cousin’s Park
This is where my grandchildren once played.
It has a fort, two slides, a swingset, and other kid stuff.
The grandchildren have outgrown it.

I sho...
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Categories: outgrown, me,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberValley of the unforgiven

...Steel in my veins, ash in the sky,
I walk through fire and don’t ask why.
The gods went silent, cold and blind,
So I carve my fate in a world unkind.

Whispers claw through twisted trees,
Lurin...
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Categories: outgrown, dark, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDjinn Martini

..."Careful with the ethanol,"
Said a fume of whisper hush.
As a thundered bolt and fire ball,
Engorged the moment with a rush. 

The itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny, yellow polka-dot martini, 
Lit my boke...
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Categories: outgrown, best friend, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Ode to my brown bear

...You were there
before memory.

Before voices had names,
before light had meaning
you were there.

Brown as warm bread,
soft as a breath held in sleep,
you waited.
And I held you.

You wer...
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Categories: outgrown, 10th grade, emotions, growth,
Form: Ode

Acta est fabula, plaudite

...What I sing from my chest
Only for ivory keys to hear.
Are the same old words
That cracked lips bear.
That familiar tune that calloused fingers play
Is the one that my own heart aches to say.
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Categories: outgrown, desire, devotion, guitar, imagery,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberGod, No God, Maybe God

...Why do I hunger for justice,
for love, I can’t keep this emptiness
inside, this void annoys 
pulling me under
I cry in pain, I gain nothing
and I wonder, 
Why do I find comfort in tu...
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Categories: outgrown, god,
Form: Dramatic Verse

END TIMES : TWO

...END TIMES : TWO

End time dramas continue 
to unfold as foretold 
tribes of Judah and 
Gad united in ether
descending conspiring 
to pull Matrix strings 
across rooms boom
death Will hidden ...
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Categories: outgrown, allegory, change, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme

Wending

...The road narrows, I have outgrown highways,
any future travelling will be accompanied
to the sound of the echoing boards
of covered bridges.
The past has caught me gazing
into star maps only tom...
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Categories: outgrown, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWisdom Doesn't Allay Fear

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(Writing prompt : Wisdom is not enough to calm your fears)

Dark clouds of insecurity surge with menacing storm severe,
the distressed mind is sucked into the whirlpool of fear,
and swirls he...
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Categories: outgrown, analogy, courage, fear, wisdom,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThought of the day

...having outgrown lower mind crutch ~
thoughts are passé, we learn by touch 

our muse comes from the universe ~
with no need for us to rehearse...
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Categories: outgrown, spiritual,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberSqueezed Flights of Fancy

...A kingdom that’s ruled by flights of fancy,
suddenly whimsical has been turned sour;
Peasants facing collective tragedy 
being brought to life is leaving them dour;
Afraid to truly close their ey...
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Categories: outgrown, childhood, courage, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Ottava rima

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