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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LifeLearn to get back up, after you fall. Before you ever walked, you crawled
Invest in Yourself, explore who you are
Find the balance within you and apply it to all
Entertain the impossible, a closed mind creates...
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Categories:
youth, emotions, feelings, inspirational love,
Form: Acrostic
powdered city girls(inspired by ‘Dusty Rose Dreaming’ by poet vb)
We’re powdered city girls heading into a club,
bright orchids entering the hothouse
spreading fun with noblesse oblige,
qua somethings suited for silver screens.
Our attention’s as uncertain as the stock market.
Experts...
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Categories:
youth, courage, dance, fun, girl,
Form: Rhyme
The Guessing GameI don’t speak, I write.
I don’t bark, I bite.
Though I don't meet your gaze,
You're in my mind all of my days.
Notes I send each night,
Is your response to my delight?
You make me think, oh babe,
Is...
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Categories:
youth, confusion, crush, desire, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
VerveOh, the 1990's,
songs by Seattle grunge,
and boy band's romanticism.
Daughter was a cheerleader beauty,
blonde effervescence.
Petite strength,
with her smile of enthusiasm,
tossed up in adolescent flight..
Friday night varsity football games,
roaring bonfire for the Homecoming
in October's night of a...
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Categories:
youth, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
melancholiaAlmost everyday there's another problem
And I don't gotta therapist to help me solve them
I don't tell no one this, but when I was young and blitz
I'd cry alone and watch the flowers blossom
I waste my...
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Categories:
youth, 12th grade, angst, break
Form: Rhyme
Quintessentially OkayUnheard voices cannot be spoken louder,
Unknown persons cannot be known quicker,
Unseen masks cannot be revealed sooner,
Unspoken words cannot produce a marker.
I died with a human once,
I made a voyage through the dead ship twice,
I forced...
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Categories:
youth, depression, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
YesterdayBy Poet "I do not know where the time goes. It just goes running away."
Yesterday when
Everyone was kind
Smiles were on all
The faces both young and old
Everyone had a hop in their step
Reading books from writers...
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Categories:
youth, books, day, happy, joy,
Form: Acrostic
What an AdventureWe’d go exploring along the river and through the woods,
We’d run, and we’d whoop, then go silently to try and see a rabbit if we could.
We’d push through all the briar and the bramble,
Then chase...
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Categories:
youth, adventure, childhood, fun, growing
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten field of foreverEven diamond became dust
When touched your skin crust
If beauty was beyond money
The world belong to you my honey
She says your poetry warm winters such
As lamp in my heart darkness
sprinkles light when I kiss...
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Categories:
youth, beautiful, feelings, first love,
Form: Free verse
Young AgainVerse 1: I was dumb and foolish
I did not love myself that much compared to today
I know why I made the wrong choices
In my mind, I should move on
But it was not like PTSD
I wish...
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Categories:
youth, 10th grade, forgiveness, hurt,
Form: Lyric
the shadow self wants to dancei’m here, nor there, sometimes everywhere
a storm brewing
inside i’m darker
i’ve sailed these seas before
repetition becomes habit
take me back to simpler times
an early childhood memory
just one day when i didn’t allow myself to be consumed
by...
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Categories:
youth, age, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Reason I Dare
Youngsters would be older
Seniors would be younger
Those in the middle work night and day
so the others won’t know hunger
Because it’s not...
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Categories:
care, old, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Whisper'My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.'
Richard C. Armitage
"Whisper, we're in church," my momma tells me.
"Please momma, let me be."
I only wanted...
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Categories:
youth, boy, children, environment, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Confessions Of A Youngster, At HeartI swore I’d never let myself get old
That time and I would always be good friends
It’s all just attitude is what I’m told
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Categories:
youth, age, how i feel,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
MaybeMaybe she really loves me maybe not
Maybe I could like her maybe I ought not
Maybe she is a passing fancy maybe she's for real
Maybe I should fold now maybe I should deal
When young you date...
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Categories:
love, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Youth Poems
Definition | What is Youth in Poetry?
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