Short Young Adult Poems

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Premium Member Young Adult

I bit into the hardest of suckers
‘Cause I’m no longer a big huge baby
With moods a lot like teeter-totters.
Now, I’m who I always wanted to be.
Form: Quatrain


Life

When I was young,
In life I was bound.

When I was a teen,
All I had I had been.

As a young adult,
I became as blunt.

Now that I am old,
I've in life, none to hold.
Form: Couplet

Lesson In Experience

You can not wander 
about to anywhere.
You do not roam where your name is not going.
It can cost you, your life.
I navigate the boundary
of your limits 
from child
to young adult.
I care for you.
Form:

Ross

Ross

Ross is my single young adult son.
Often pitches in to help others.
Sincerely loves to be on the computer… a lot.
Secure about his abilities.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 1, 2010

Poetic form: Name
Form: Name

Make Me Over

To change my looks
You won't find it in any books
Foundation of God's strength
Now to give my roots a little length
Rose my cheeks of buttery brown
Red lips to change my frown
Now add a little sunshine
This baby, little girl, young adult will be fine
Form:


parents

Parents if you hinder
Your young adult or adult child
All their life, and don’t show
Them the right way
While you’re still alive
Don’t expect your 
Other kids to take on 
The responsibility 
After your dead and gone
Because they have to live
Their lives to
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Poetry Portfolio--Young Adult Novel

Move along pages
Youth complies little
Breathing swiftens
Novel leaves nothing
But a heartbeat lost
Towards the novel
The internal contents read
As time brings down the senses
No human can endure
The pages therein
And heartache ensues
Over nothing real

Russell Sivey

Premium Member Young Adult Novel

Move along pages
Youth complies little
Breathing swiftens
Novel excuses no mortal
Heartbeat is a cannibal
Towards the novel
Extremities become red
As time brings down the senses
No human can endure
The pages therein
And heartache ensues
Over nothing real

Russell Sivey

Premium Member Where I Was In the 1970's

Where you were in the 70's

Wore pink elephant-collar silk shirts 
 I was preteen, teen young adult
 Danced in polyester bell bottom pants
 Lived in the center of USA heart lands
Where I was in the 70's
Watching Soul Train 
 And American Bandstand
Where I was in the 70's

3/01/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©
Form: Rhyme

Being Twenty

This in- between phase of manhood 
gripped me. You , lost in a dimension
 between late teen and young adult, 
the burden of confidence weighing
 taut years and tears down as life's truths 
hid that face from free thought. 
I was afraid of holding you strongly
 in fragile screams come midnight. 
Let me  help you heal now.
© Noel Onat  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Other

The Years

If I could count the years
 they remind me
 how easily they catch us
 unawares
 of the passage time.

Yesterday a teenager
 then a young adult
 and suddenly
 midlife
 slipping quickly.

Today
 a senior citizen
 retiring
 yet still
 looking back at the time passed.

Who counts the years
 wondering of tomorrow
 how soon
 they are gone
 and we are left only to look back.
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.

The Night of Your Promotion

On this the night of your promotion 
I look back and see the little boy I once knew 
So tiny and tender, 
needing those around him
Playing and sharing as young ones do 
Now I look and see the young adult you’ve come to be 
So tall and sleek, 
so confident and strong
So look back and smile
Look ahead with confidence knowing you can do anything, anything 
as long as you believe
Believe
Form: Bio

My Dreams

Never had actual dreams because I always thought that they will never come 
true . 

Will they?  as i'm growing up in this world where I see all kinds of disasters.
I remember being 12 wishing of my age to be 18 witch I regret and now I see 
the whole truth of being a young adult there's nothing really  out here for me but 
frustration and making my own world better  by becoming successful.
Form:

Premium Member Me in Three

I will do me in three verses of rhyme
(each verse with three lines.) I was once in my prime,
but now I just feel the fleeing of time.

I had many dreams a long time ago.
I was then simply a young adult though.
Now I keep writing of how fast years go.

Since the September morn on which I was born,
multi-colored hats of different styles I've worn.
In some ways I think that I am like a unicorn.
Form: Rhyme

They Will Always Be Lonely

We know all insecure men tend to fail abysmally at coping with suffering. 
Their misogyny is boundless and they wonder why we view them with disdain. 
It’s senseless for men to even bother innocent women shopping at the store. 
Their mothers should’ve just walked through those abortion clinic doors.

Note: This poem is about incels, a population of violent young adult men that I will never respect.
© Seph Vi  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member 2023

Flowing in fully covered with ice; voiced strength of a banshee But just a young adult in this new millennium, all of 2023 The previous century saw me come of age; this one will see the death of me Across the face of the night; the new hire barely 24, your replacement interviewee Will you fulfill resolutions, changing lives trajectory? Or just a wasteland, as your beginnings snow-less winter be
Form: Monorhyme

Can You Hear Me Now?

Attention!  Attention!
We all want to be heard.
..... The Word .....
is as powerful out from you
as from me.

Listen!  Listen!
Hear the voice
that cries to be heard
from the moment of its birth.

Listen to the children,
hear the teenager,
the young adult, middle-aged
or oldster who all have
a voice of their time.

Silence!  Silence!
Within No Sound lies
a Voice Most Profound
that speaks to us all
if we but listen.
© Sue Mason  Create an image from this poem.

Wagtails

Mid morning in the now leafy white poplar, tall and symmetrical,

four flashing light and dark magnificent magpies tea leaf, steal the 

mannerisms of tinier wagtails by moving their tails up and down dancing 

around from branch to branch leading following each other and chattering 

away as though they have nothing else to do all day, for on this lovely day  

their instincts start to do what all other young adult creatures do in Spring.
© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Me

my story in a thimble protecting me from the prick of the needle

the mother gave birth to an easy baby at noon in the sweltering heat of Morocco
the lively little girl became a teenager in the grey of Paris and lost her appeal
the young adult exiled in New York stayed invisible to the eyes of the world
in the prime of her life she became wild and had to climb back the ladder
mature she thrives and recaptures the creative child she was.
Form: Bio

Love Is

Love is
   that look caught in someone's eye
   that feeling of warmth and racing hearts
   that touch drawing one to two
   that word whispering I love you
   that bond the merges two to one.
Love is
   a mother's joyful tears at the birth of a child.
   a father's prideful boast of his child's achievements.
   a child's respect and acceptance of discipline ,
   a young adult stepping forward to independence,
   the parent letting go.
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.

What a Great Idea

See you later,
Everyone has choice,
A choice for living,
Nobody expects,
He will depart soon,
Everyone a child, 
Young, adult and grand,

Departs with this hope,
They shall see again.
The society has faith,
The world is progressing,
Over the centuries,
The faith for living,
Existed every where.

Although a Religion,
Also offers them 
A better place in heaven,
A painless gift,
Why people deserves?
To suffer on Earth,
What is a great idea?
Form: Verse

Keep Them Safe

Keep Them Safe

I was born in New York City
  It wasn’t safe nor was it pretty
That’s where I spent my young adult life
  I realized it wasn’t safe for my children or my wife
There was always that threat of danger
  I didn’t want my family victimized by a stranger
I packed them up and sent them to a New Jersey town
  We bought a house on a street that part of the name is brown
Life went well and my kids are now grown
  All my kids now have a family and house of their own
Form: Rhyme

Baby Girl

Hey baby girl,
I love you and your my world.
I know you don't know me, 
But me and your mom are enemies.
I was hoping we could be a happy family.
But things never happen like you want it to be.
We was young, I was a young adult and she was nineteen.
We got caught in the love seen 
And thought we could make it if we worked as a team.
But things got in front of our dreams.
The important thing,
Is that I love you and forever in my heart you will always be-Mario Perez


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Form: Epic

To Maya Angelou

The first time I saw you
I was a child watching Roots.
No knowledge of the poetry
or autobiography pursuits.

The first poem I heard by you
was "And Still I Rise'.
As a young adult  in search of
purpose it came as no surprise.

With every interview, book,
and poem I could take in.
In an odd and distant way,
you became teacher and friend.

Several chances I had to meet you,
but I was always too afraid.
Because of you and some others too
My love for poetry will never be swayed.
Form: Rhyme

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