Youth Poems - Examples of all types of youth poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Baby Steps
A life in a bubble ain’t no life at all.
You’ve gotta not be scared of a little fall.
So lift your head little one to the endless call.
Stand up tall, don’t crawl, now walk.
Midnight,...
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Categories:
youth, baby, family, happy, love,
Form: Rhyme
the competition(this is another throw-back - a piece of writing, from high school, used in my Yale applications)
I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.
The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise...
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Categories:
youth, angst, anxiety, devotion, growing
Form: Free verse
*****- In the Eyes of GodI hear the sermon say
I don't say should not be
It cannot be
And reasons then are listed
One by one
Why I'm not real
Why I'm dirty
My love, wholly unworthy
But God is all loving
With conditions set by
Men who experienced...
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Categories:
introspection, truth, youth,
Form: Free verse
Growth and DevelopmentYoung self, you stumbled through on your journey to adulthood
you had to confront lack of love and abandonment
you're as tough as the sole of a leather boot
navigating societies with strength and resilience; continued to smile
wandering...
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Categories:
youth, appreciation, growth, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
KatrinaKatrina
We spent a lifetime apart,
But I knew right from the second start,
That you have an important piece of me.
Like a blast from the past,
I smiled and you laughed.
I wasn’t expecting that we’d ever meet.
I smoked...
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Categories:
youth, friend, love, memory, old,
Form: Rhyme
Bygone Country Life
The barn rooster crows
Big and little ones arise
It’s a country life
Life of work and fun
Hunor must rise with the sun
Laughing has its turn
Everyone must try
From here to the by and by
Make the load lighter
“Where y’all...
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Categories:
youth, childhood, family, growing up,
Form: Haiku
Youth all but bust, where’s lustYouth gone, lust goes a lump lily,
Wealth on wane, withers family,
Water drained, vanishes the lake,
Truth once dawns, world looks nigh but fake.
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Translation |25.10.2024| lust, family, lake, truth/reality, world
Poet’s note: Sanskrit has...
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Categories:
youth, family, truth, world,
Form: Quatrain
summersSUMMERS
DAYS ARE WRONG
WITH HOT HEAT AND SWEAT
DO YOU LIKEIT..........
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Categories:
youth, 10th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Haiku
What it feels to a suicidal?I always had this sense of pity for those thinking of ending their lives,
Those unemployed, struggling youths & those who left this world before their wives.
I always thought it is an act of...
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Categories:
youth, abuse, anxiety, depression, grave,
Form: ABC
HalloweenSometimes I wonder
if I have made a career
out of Halloween -- dress-up
you know: the right garment
for the day -- the right creature
of face, and tone of play --
prerecording somewhat before
each outgoing venture --...
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Categories:
youth, age, gothic, halloween, introspection,
Form: Free verse
remembering in black and whitetv in the fifties altering weekend rituals
one set in the neighbourhood
streetboys sitting around the famous indian head
for their fill of saturday morning cartoons
sci-fi flash gordon and i love lucy
allowed to stay up on sunday nights
to...
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Categories:
youth, change, community, growing up,
Form: Free verse
swoon to the tunesmusic trivia night
a blast from the past
recognizing songs
from every era
by the first few notes
unforgettable
etched in our memory
except you know the song
but can't think of the title
picture the singer
but not his name
this getting old sucks but
slipping...
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Categories:
memory, music, youth,
Form: Free verse
Times of ChangeExtempored Etiquettes
Elaborated conversations of old
Mildly in motion
of words to express
Synesthetic syncopations
silenced inner egos.
Naived out soul
Anticipates long enough
for a change to show-up
As Clouds faded
and day showed up
Life whispers a note
Of Now...
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Categories:
youth, addiction, art, beauty, career,
Form: Free verse
AGEYears pile up like shadows, long and still,
Etching the limits of dreams and will.
Youth, a spark, now smothered by grace,
But the soul's depth, no moment can erase.
In quiet lines, in silver threads,
A life at one...
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Categories:
youth, age,
Form: Free verse
YOUR RETURNWhen you could have remained
Always with me
You got lost in the winds then.
Thought you would return
When the winds will cede.
But lost hope
When you didn't come.
Years have passed
Those wounds just don't heal
They have got a way...
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Categories:
youth, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, best
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Youth Poems
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