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Growing Up Sonnet Poems

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


Crayon Box Dreams
Once, colours bloomed beneath my fingertips,
A world alive in every waxy line.
With careless joy, I painted paper ships
And skies where suns and silver moons would...

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Categories: age, allegory, change, for



The Unmet Twin
Unknown to me these parallels ran smooth 
Fraternal twins, unlike in face but both 
Against her sister, but dormant in youth.
My Esau stunting Jacob in...

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Categories: conflict, growing up, self,

A world transformed

It seems like yesterday I stood by a field,
Uncle Tom's orchard nearby, abundant and fair.
The sun shone bright, the wind blew slow and yielded,
And trees...

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© Kim Lkr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: childhood, emotions, growing up,

Premium Member Thirty Nine Minutes to Nowhere
As I look upward at the wooden door labeled 'My Demise',
I clearly see thirty-nine wooden steps on the rise.
Each step takes a minute to grasp...

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Categories: life, memory,

Premium Member Birthing a Sonnet
Writing my first Sonnet was like a pregnancy.
I knew I wanted to give birth to one 
and took on the parental responsibility
knowing it wouldn't... or...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sonnet, birth, humorous, poetry,



Premium Member Deciduous Teeth

A tiny, glowing, wing-ed creature flies
to homes around the world in every land
compelled to take each tooth we lose and then, 
to sneak a coin...

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Categories: sonnet, cat, children, fairy, fun,

Premium Member The Closet of My Mind
Somewhere in the closet of my mind
Reside the many thoughts I left behind
The one’s I put aside without a care
The one’s I lacked the courage,...

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Categories: growing up, self, wisdom,

Premium Member Time and Tide
In time shadows in an old windy shed
  are names of sojourners who've passed this way;
now my wandering boot does older tread
  where...

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Categories: growing up, nostalgia, youth,

Divine Magnetism
I am holding your eyes, feeling your words,
The waves gently overwhelm me, coaxing,
Pulling me under and luring me in.
Recede, leaving me freezing, shivering.

I am holding...

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Categories: break up, conflict, crush,

Premium Member Past Mistakes
I often wondered how I came to be,
Brought up by relatives so far away,
My parents fought, in parting they were free,
My lonely life never indulged...

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Categories: love,

Premium Member The Traveller
The midnight pokes out from under the dirt,
navy, with chrome trim, catching the moon’s eye,
that Ally Sheedy fringe can’t help but flirt,
as her 1970’s Audi...

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Categories: growing up, identity, introspection,

Premium Member We Thought Forever Was True
"If forever is true, make it true, don't give it a second thought," ... by The Poet

"Okay kids, this is December's first day
so let's go...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, change, crush, growing

Dinnertime Stories
Did you know that it is dinner, my dear?
You forever in your room thee door shut.
You needeth join us, lend a willing ear? 
Thee father...

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Categories: childhood, deep, family, for

Premium Member Growing Up
Growing up we find that head rules the heart,
that we may navigate earth life with care
but from light of love now standing apart,
of soul’s fall...

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Categories: growing up, introspection, spiritual,

Premium Member The Joy of Childhood
Finding your lost mittens in the school’s lost and found.
Playing with some puppies as they run and jump around.
Happiness on your first day at school...

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Categories: adventure, childhood, freedom, fun,


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