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Youth Poems | Examples of Youth Poetry

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 short, long, best, and famous poem examples for youth.
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,...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, baby, family, happy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, angst, anxiety, devotion, growing
Form: Free verse



*****- In the Eyes of God
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: introspection, truth, youth,
Form: Free verse
Growth and Development
Young 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...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, appreciation, growth, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Katrina
Katrina 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...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, friend, love, memory, old,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, childhood, family, growing up,
Form: Haiku
Youth all but bust, where’s lust
Youth gone, lust goes a lump lily, Wealth on wane, withers family, Water drained, vanishes the lake, Truth once dawns, world looks nigh but fake. ________________________ Translation |25.10.2024| lust, family, lake, truth/reality, world Poet’s note: Sanskrit has...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, family, truth, world,
Form: Quatrain
summers
SUMMERS DAYS ARE WRONG WITH HOT HEAT AND SWEAT DO YOU LIKEIT..........Read the rest...
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...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, abuse, anxiety, depression, grave,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Halloween
Sometimes 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 --...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, age, gothic, halloween, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member remembering in black and white
tv 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...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, change, community, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member swoon to the tunes
music 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...Read the rest...
Categories: memory, music, youth,
Form: Free verse
Times of Change
Extempored 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...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, addiction, art, beauty, career,
Form: Free verse
AGE
Years 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...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, age,
Form: Free verse
YOUR RETURN
When 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...Read the rest...
Categories: youth, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, best
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Youth Poems

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