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Growing Up Son Poems

These Growing Up Son poems are examples of poetry about Growing Up Son. These are the best examples of Son Growing Up poems written by international poets.


The Lie
The Lie

I am an insect waiting to be squashed!

I stare hard at the ground
as if fascinated, enthralled by it
while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt  
wait...

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© Ian Souter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: son, anger, anxiety, father, father



Siddhartha translation by Michael R Burch
Siddhartha (The Buddha) 
by Hermann Hesse
translation by Michael R. Burch

In the house-shade,
by the sunlit riverbank beyond the bobbing boats,
in the Salwood forest’s deep shade,
beneath the...

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Categories: boat, father son, friend,

Premium Member A Mother’s love
Detest away.
Whatever you say.
Have it your way.
Who cares anyway?

It doesn’t matter if it’s true.
It’s what you believe… you.
Words from mouths. 
No matter how it sounds....

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Categories: son, absence, abuse, age, child,

A Life in T-Shirts
Going through a closet,
I was quite surprised to find
Several shopping bags of t-shirts
That my son had left behind.

While looking at them, one by one,
I realized...

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Categories: nostalgia, son,

Premium Member Good Little Boys
Their toys are all strewn across every room
Each soon to be broken or lost.
Their books are forlorn, all tattered and torn
In the corner where they...

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Categories: boy, growing up, son,



Premium Member Growing up
You were a heathen 
a tormenting toddler 
now a grown young man...

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Categories: son,

MY TWO SONS
My two sons will always be part of my life
I had always watched them with that special drive
When your kids were born, I looked into...

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Categories: son, birth, blessing, growing up,

Premium Member MY Capt'n
TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: son, appreciation, character, destiny, father

Premium Member Mother Said
Mother said to carry Dad's little green luggage,
Godzilla my foe, I can do a step not a hundred,
Mother said to put in you--that, it's all...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: son, appreciation, character, growing up,

Premium Member To The Other Side
Out of the blue on this summer day
Richie asks me if I want to swim with him across the lake
Sure what the hell and that...

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Categories: son, best friend, endurance, father

MICHAEL FATHER DAY CARD FROM HEAVEN
Happy Father's Day to you and David
I can't even tell you in words
How I miss you all
I hope everyone in the family is doing great
I...

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Categories: angel, celebration, father son,

Premium Member My Son The Tree
I am so proud to have my son growing up right next to me
Standing so tall and majestic for all the world to see
Raising him...

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Categories: son, fantasy, nature,

Premium Member Mom’s Advice For Me Mothers Day 2024

Mom’s Advice For Me
Miracle Man Tom Wright
Mothers Day 2024

Our mom was one of ten children. Her parents were farmers at a time when it required...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: son, how i feel, mothers

Premium Member River's Magic
  I learned to love the river
    waves lapping ‘neath our boat
  Glint of sun set the scene a-sparkle
 ...

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Categories: father son, growing up,

Premium Member Help Me
Help me please!  I'm a kid, and I'm confused. 
Something's wrong with me - 
I like to run wild and free 'neath the sun,
And...

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Categories: son, child, dog, drug, education,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things