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Sixteens Poems - Poems about Sixteens


A Hunger Unfed
...from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee, adding a layer of stumbled steps, with a batter thickly made of le......

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Categories: sixteens, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Lost Soles
...One evening as I walked my dog I came across a pair of shoes Lying there beside a log Not exactly breaking news Still I couldn’t help but wonder Who would ditch their size sixteens Did they h......

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Categories: sixteens, funny,
Form: Rhyme



A Mother's Baking
...from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee, adding a layer of stumbled steps, with a batter thickly made of le......

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Categories: sixteens, baby,
Form: Free verse
Sixth Teen
...New year this Twenty eighteen? In a count it found no eight teens From thirteen to eighteen sixteens Then this year twenty sixth teen!......

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Categories: sixteens, christmas, confusion, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
Sixteen Is a Sweet Age
...this sweet sixteen self should not dare sail away from the safe habour no matter how sweet-talking boys are or archaic parents sound it has dumped dollies for ‘fun’ boys and has privileges and rig......

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Categories: sixteens, adventure, boyfriend, butterfly, childhood,
Form: Blank verse



Sunblock
...In my sixteens I used to go to Rockaway Park on the A train made famous by Armstrong's song, it had rides, small restaurants and a clean beach... there I got golden brown with lots of cappertone. ......

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Categories: sixteens, adventure, food, friendship, funny,
Form: Free verse

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