Youth Poems. Read and share great examples of poetry about youth. This list of poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, famous, and modern examples for youth.
Sonnet IIIThe first soft snows of winter falling now;
Clinically cold, the wind cuts like a knife.
The surgeon's scalpel deals a final blow
To the numb fabric of the summer's life
Whose yellow lingered in the autumn's leaves
And warmed my hopes and brightened my...Read More
Categories:
youth, winter,
Form: Sonnet
TideReal life always flows in
Covering the pictures stoked in the sand
Joyful fleeting thoughts
Faces and messages
Knowing but hoping no wave will come.
Sometimes just 10 minutes of closeness and calm
Often not enough to reach the school gate
No stage setting or plans can...Read More
Categories:
youth, love,
Form: Blank verse
God's Symphony Called LifeEnglish quintain
Understanding God's clear voice as a youth
a purpose on earth, therein one can find
in His Word there rests remarkable truth.
Love God with your heart, your soul and your mind.
Second, as you love yourself, love mankind.
God knows the secrets...Read More
Categories:
youth, 11th grade, art, imagery, life, light,
Form: Quintain (English)
Turn OFF THE TV GOODNIGHT AND GO TO BED- -bargain teasers
creature features
bedtime peace time
showtime on time
school night, sleep tight
TV off, turn off
nighty, nighty
goodnight, goodnight
sleep tight, sleep tight
12/4/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
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Categories:
analogy, anxiety, childhood, destiny, irony, youth,
Form: Footle
Shout AwayJust because they shout out
tell you everything you hear is a lie and doubt
it doesn't make it true.
The Hannity's, Dobbs, Coumos. Lemons of the news,
sly as a fox, can not repair with staring loud and fumed
repeat what...Read More
Categories:
youth, america, anger, angst,
Form: Verse
my purposeMy Purpose
I live in a house of Pain
and it reflects the neglect and hurt
of the children who live here.
The furniture is broken or torn
and the floors stay dirty.
No matter how hard I clean
I can’t wash away the...Read More
Categories:
youth, abuse, forgiveness, hurt,
Form: Prose Poetry
LoveThe plane sets sail across an ocean of stars..
Like a cat in the dark, you appear out of nowhere.
Just when I think she's through with me, there she is.
Beckoning for me to follow her,
Same as I've always done.
It flies overhead...Read More
Categories:
youth, age, crush, cute love, love, love hurts,
Form: ABC
Nights Were Our Time Setting Our World Ablaze(Three Lives, Three Sonnets, Three Friends, Fate's Dark Hand)
POEM 1. Nights Were Our Time Setting Our World Ablaze
POEM 2. When Man Lusts For All, Seeking All The More
POEM 3. Yet A Cure Within Light's Truth, May Be Found )
Poem (1.)
Nights...Read More
Categories:
youth, art, best friend, friend, friendship, life, loss,
Form: Sonnet
senryu seriesname of a crane
saras - India - sarees
flying past each other
II
friend named Bubbles
or "victory" originally
he alone unchanged in Guateng
III
green pastures, youth, Durban
Bad old good South Africa
those days, parents, gone
IV
at prayer in Lenasia
Gerrie Lubbe, wife Jeanetta Hendrina -
a torch. Pray for...Read More
Categories:
africa, angst, loneliness, nostalgia, prayer, tribute, youth,
Form: Senryu
senryu seriesname of a crane
saras - India - sarees
flying past each other
II
friend named Bubbles
or "victory" originally
he alone unchanged in Guateng
III
green pastures, youth, Durban
Bad old good South Africa
those days, parents, gone
IV
at prayer in Lenasia
Gerrie Lubbe, wife Jeanetta Hendrina -
a torch. Pray for...Read More
Categories:
africa, angst, loneliness, nostalgia, prayer, tribute, youth,
Form: Senryu
She and IA lady in a white dress and a yellow hat,
All filled with a fragrance of the preeminent perfume,
When I hold her tight with my bare hand,
She makes me content full of amuse.
She is the best healer and companion for me,
She...Read More
Categories:
youth, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Come unto Me Little ChildrenDearest children, My Heart rejoices
When I hear the sound of your voices.
The voices that spring from your hearts
That sing to Me such sweet melody.
For in your hearts I dwell within,
Your youth, your innocence, such
A...Read More
Categories:
youth, children,
Form: Free verse
Misty laneIn the twilight of the setting sun
cold wind stirrers the whispering leaves
like the whispering of have heard voices
speaking of echoes of things now faded
silently cold mists are carried
before my eyes in half seen memories
twisting shapes that form and fade
teasing of...Read More
Categories:
youth, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hi Santa
Hi Santa, if you do exist,
Would you please read this list?
First, don't make me wait in vain,
Could you bring along some rain?
I would really love more trees,
If you could manage fifty, please;
If you do see this petition,
Throw in some decent...Read More
Categories:
youth, christmas, december, house, money, rain, tree,
Form: Light Verse
At the long runAt the Long run
We all started same time
But never finished same time
Some run faster
Some run so slow
Some fainted at the way
Some couldn't handle the race
At the long run
At the long run
We started this journey together
We were tired...Read More
Categories:
youth, africa, confidence, courage, dedication, immigration, tribute,
Form: Epic
One sided minds telling Leave DumbRemain arguments focus on the future
Worst case not yet real what suits ya
economic decline like 2008 9
hand over control to be wealthy
who controls your wealth
must be mentally unhealthy
until bad times please
I plead help me...Read More
Categories:
youth, england, political,
Form: Free verse
Gentility My TreePassion never spent, a touch of diaphanous breeze embraces me, as your sinew envelops my heart, like the caress of a Mother for her newborn. Whisper your songs to my soul. From childhood, I heard your call.
whispers
on gentle...Read More
Categories:
youth, appreciation, nature, poems, poetry, tree,
Form: Haibun
nineteen seventies alive and wellbell bottom blue jeans
warm belly button showing
nineteen seventies
woodstock mad music
vietnam war in full swing
youth rebelling now
free love is rampant
people living in communes
churches pray like mad
usa magic
separation of our youth
from solid parents
after kennedy
dr martin luther king
turned country wild
youth were change...Read More
Categories:
youth, nostalgia, war,
Form: Senryu
In Me I'min love
the foamy wave kisses
the wide breast of beach
for the wave of extreme youth,
ravenous crow is a beauty
for the rainy season
rivers walk showing her virginity
a lie is a truthful message
if the liar has sovereign power
ignorant is a wise man
if he...Read More
Categories:
youth, introspection, love, self,
Form: Free verse
Disappearing FantasyGone in a flash is Santa and the tooth fairy
Why do we let our fantasy disappear
Then take them away from our little ones
We are the ones who destroy these fascinations
Is it wrong or right to destroy the delight of fantasy
We...Read More
Categories:
youth, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
These Hallowed HallsThese Hallowed Halls
by Michael R. Burch
I
A final stereo fades into silence
and now there is seldom a murmur
to trouble the slumber
of these ancient halls.
I stand by a window where others have watched
the passage of time, alone,
not untouched,
and I am as they...Read More
Categories:
youth, aubade, depression, desire, first love, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Verse
To the Ends of the Earth
my love for him is a rainbow arching
from my youth throughout decades
gleaming with my fondness
his angel face is the sun behind me
such brightness I can’t forget
while before me – rain falls
to feel again the colors of his soul
that beamed from...Read More
Categories:
youth, lost love,
Form: Kimo
Too ColdToo cold this winter
of my senior years,
I played my part in this vale of tears
the onslaught of older age
quickly close the curtain of this stage
for every escapade and experience
of youth and foolish dabbling and interference;
now so...Read More
Categories:
youth, future, leaving, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Warning SignIt came as the pink rosebud
Is a precursor of the bloom;
As crimson drops of blood,
Foretell the pending doom!
While yet the sentinel slept,
Whom then would pay any heed?
As the enemy lurked and crept,
Destined in no way to succeed!
From heaven, a...Read More
Categories:
youth, god, life, light, miracle, religious, trust, war,
Form: Rhyme
VioletsViolets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to an indiscreet height
and you laughed,
abruptly demure,
outblushing shocked violets:
suddenly,
I knew:
everything had changed.
Later, as you braided your hair
into long bluish plaits
the shadows empurpled,
the dragonflies’
last darting...Read More
Categories:
youth,
Form: Free verse