Growing Up Poems - Page 2

21. The Box

• By Rick Hunter
• Published by Family Friend Poems December 2021 with permission of the Author.

As I look back to when I was but a boy,
I'd have to say a cardboard box was my favorite toy.

There were no action figures in this day,

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22. My Daughter, My Friend

• By Kristina Cyronek
• Published by Family Friend Poems May 2013 with permission of the Author.

I see the pain in your eyes and feeling like you do.
I wish I could take it all away and skip these years for you.

Being a teen is so very hard, it really isn't fair

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23. Inside

• By Nikki L. Rench
• Published by Family Friend Poems August 2006 with permission of the Author.

Bottled up inside
Are the things I never said,
The feelings that I hide,
The lines you never read

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24. My Little Man

• By Brittany
• Published by Family Friend Poems January 2014 with permission of the Author.

My little boy is growing
Getting bigger every day
I fear it won't be long enough
Before I have to say

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25. Letter To My Daughter

• By Bettina Van Vaerenbergh
• Published by Family Friend Poems January 2020 with permission of the Author.

When I first held you in my arms,
You were so perfect and so small.
You are a full-grown woman now;
And I am proud, oh how!

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26. A Mother's Question

• By Christine Werner
• Published by Family Friend Poems December 2015 with permission of the Author.

How do I close the door to this space?
With my eyes filled with tears, my arms haven't the strength.

How do I close the door to this space?

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27. Why Do You Have To Grow Up?

• By Mark Willenbring
• Published by Family Friend Poems September 2011 with permission of the Author.

What has happened to the days?
What has happened to the years?
Please let me for one last time
wipe away your tears.

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28. Leaving Home

• By Janice J Andrade
• Published by Family Friend Poems July 2011 with permission of the Author.

Give mother a hug
Father a kiss
The time has come
We have talked about it

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29. A Young Woman

• By Leticia
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 2009 with permission of the Author.

There comes a time in a young girl's life,
When she begins to start growing up.
It's a time when you need to let her go
And trust that she'll take the right path.

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30. You Will Always Be My "Little Girl"

• By Babs Verrier
• Published by Family Friend Poems January 2020 with permission of the Author.

I don't know what you're going through,
But I hope you understand,
I'm just trying to be your mum
And give you a guiding hand.

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31. The Mother

Famous Poem

• By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The mother soothes her mantled child
With incantation sad and wild;
A deep compassion brims her eye
And stills upon her lips, the sigh.

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32. Ebony Curls

• By Samantha T. Ulloa
• Published by Family Friend Poems November 2006 with permission of the Author.

I watch as she flaps her arms,
Pretends to fly.
With her optimistic charms,
Always asking why.

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