Best Teenage Poems
Below are the all-time best Teenage poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of teenage poems written by PoetrySoup members
To My Teenage SelfIt's OK
that you don't have much to say
Your words are kept on paper
For your eyes to savor
It doesn't matter that your best friends
Are Agatha Christie...
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Categories:
teenage, confidence, encouraging, high school,
Form:
Rhyme
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
teenage, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Only TimeFor the lark she sings in her morning song,
That brightens up my day.
The pitter patter of tiny drops,
Clouds fill the sky with grey.
The dampened ground,...
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Categories:
age, devotion, emotions, teenage,
Form:
Couplet
The Perfect FriendThe Perfect Friend ©
Today I found a friend
Who knew everything I felt
She knew my weakness
And the problems I’ve been dealt.
She understood my wonders
And listened...
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Categories:
teenage, best friend, friend, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
teenage, adventure, friendship, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Read This PleaseThey hate you because your you
They make up lies and call it true
They're fake behind your back
Hoping someday that you'll crack.
They hate you because your...
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Categories:
teenage, betrayal, care, career, change,
Form:
Bio
SuffocatedMy biggest fear is to be alone with my thoughts,
To be surrounded by the past,
Swallowed whole by my mistakes,
Stalked by what could've been, what should've...
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Categories:
teenage, conflict, confusion, emotions, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
SogaimitiThe green-blue marks of the tufuga's* tools run down his thighs
Patterns in shades of deep-ocean-dark and unsealed-road-like lines
Back to his ancestors and forward to his...
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Categories:
culture, men, teenage,
Form:
Free verse
The Lost YearsThe photos stopped
when you were 10 or 11.
Around that time, you started refusing to
have your pictures taken.
A few candid shots are all I’ve...
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Categories:
teenage, family, father, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
Ransom's Blue Girls RevisitedMy poem is patterned after John Crowe Ransom's "Blue Girls." I suppose you could call it a parody. His poem appears below mine.
Styling in your...
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Categories:
girl, teenage,
Form:
Rhyme
Pursuing DreamsA Sonnet in
~ Iambic Tetrameter ~
At age eighteen he fled his home
Could barely wait, despised his town
To see the...
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Categories:
adventure, happiness, home, teenage,
Form:
Sonnet
SeventeenSeventeen
Without a word, he became a star in the sky
Without a goodbye, he became a memory in our mind
Seventeen years, he lived his life
Seventeen years,...
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Categories:
hope, poems, teenage, youth,
Form:
Elegy
The Girl You Think You KnowShe is sad,
but what else is new.
She is hurt,
well you would be too.
She is dying,
only from what she has done.
She is alone,
because she wants no...
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Categories:
emo, teenage,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Categories:
memory, pain, teenage, writing,
Form:
Couplet
Categories:
teenage, freedom, funny, sexy, teacher,
Form:
Footle