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Twenty One Poems - Poems about Twenty One

Twenty One Poems - Examples of all types of poems about twenty one to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for twenty one.
Just One More Turn
...To break a man's life down into digits, to numbers, might seem strange to you; distant, or heartless, or just odd. But that was just our way; we'd both been dubbed 'robot' at one time or anot......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, death, death of a
Form: Free verse



MY RESILIENT SON AADITYA
... In the cozy, dark chamber of my womb , you fought hard to breathe, And we prayed. Your safe passage out into this beautiful world a huge concern, And your too-soon departure to an oblivion, ......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, birthday, care, encouraging, son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ephemera
...“Conversation with my eight year old Granddaughter twenty one years ago. She is still different and I still have the famed four leaf clover” ~~The Poet~~ It’s got extra Grandma, look at this cl......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, granddaughter,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Lorenzo
...Uncooked grains of rice caked our apartment. Dug themselves into my pliable plantar aspect I welcomed you from the bottom of my being, Into my soul, A friend that made me feel whole. You dreamt ......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wounded Sigh
...A crumbling cabin, a jungle deep, An old soldier trudging by, Imagining he heard, in the breeze, A ghostly, wounded sigh. This elder sat 'neath a mangrove To ease his creaking bones, His une......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, death, dream, loneliness, war,
Form: Rhyme



Quietly Watching
...I’m just quietly sitting watching Through a younger man’s eyes. You wouldn’t know if you looked For my brain’s there in disguise. It’s wearing the body of one Who’s of a much greater age, Tryi......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, age, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
GETTING OLD TO FAST
...GETTING OLD TO FAST My life is going by so fast Sometimes I'm forgetting a lot about my past I do have lots of concerns Maybe because of all my nerves Sometimes I look back on when I was twent......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, age, feelings, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As Time Goes By
...Picnics, plays, and days of plenty Wanton ways and I but twenty Laughing, carefree, and forward bound While time passed by without a sound For years I'd lie and search the sky Or sit i......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Olive Tree
... In this new century of our Lord The gardener planted the young tree Placed in garden of Gethsemane An olive to the knee Around two thousand years have passed A beaten path cl......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Insect innocence
... Drink the poison from my blood, breathe the rot from my lungs. Take all that has been decaying inside me and nurse it to health like an injured bird. A child who was once pure, turned sour like......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, angst, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
oh little Rye
... Oh little Rye! You’re too young to be mine. Notice me from afar; I’m giving you a good sign. Oh little Rye! You’re twenty-one, now. Are you seeing someone lately? Or have you given a vow? ......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Matthew Shepard Of Wyoming
...Twenty-one years old, or should I say young, with the fair coloring and grace of a trumpeting swan. Youth of intellect and a goodness. He attended an LGBTQ+ meeting on the campus of the Uni......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Pearl Of The Orient
...Philippines, my country of birth, one of the countries in Southeast Asia. It is an archipelago or group of islands, with more than seven thousand islands. Luzon, the largest island in the north......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, history, places,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member concocting a youth potion
...I shall do a dish and a dash and a ha ha ha making myself young, so fiddly fah lah lah so saying, the old witch gave a loud gaffaw her cauldron boiled and bubbled next to her bra I pretend to c......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Song of The Red-Tailed Hawk No 10: AABB
...Less than eighty, now ... they're, unaccounted. 'Tis sad ... NEXT: the hawk hovered that founded fresh sedges, grasslands, and deserts idyll, God in the detail, Red-Tailed Hawk sidle, Blitzkrieg ......Read the rest...
Categories: twenty one, allusion, analogy, appreciation, bird,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

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