Best Adolescent Poems

Late mid-life street woman she is...
I grew up with her under 
mango trees now softly drooping
their shoulders much like hers.. but she,
still shaped like a Boticelli urn, wrapped
in arms diaphanous  in flesh and heat,
fanned banana leaves swaying to 
latin notes while cooking fried bamboo
shoots,...

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Headline: "Bieber jailed."
And you tell me there's a God?
I won't sleep. Will you?...

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The knowledge that I am
is not.
Like an hallucination,
I am
nothing more than
a name --
a designation of something
that is
yet to be.

The future must unfold
all that
I become in later years.
For now, 
I know not why,
or, perhaps,
even that I do
exist.......

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My space ship of a lamp shade,
This little cardboard room.
What genius exists here,
In the abscence of the moon?...

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Faulty compass of drifting swain
Freelancing on arid, desert plain
Passion fires mind of careening train
Burning loins long each satin sheath to stain
Sculpted dunes seductive beauty do feign
Smooth, silky curves do the froward eye entertain
But the silted grains proffer momentary gain
Entrancing mirages with frothy water holes detain
Anon,...

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I'm not invincible, I zoned out and I began over thinking,
Unlike a dilated pupil shrinking, I was untamed between blinking
Thinking dark thoughts, trying to build a fence but my chain wasn't linking,
So I found a pen and some paper and I went straight to the...

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Immediacy of the moment doth youthful heart beckon
With trite passions that seem to standardize each deviation
Intemperate fodder with which sprouting limbs must reckon
Growing pains producing physical appetites beyond satiation

Carefree days frought with moments of indecision
Sheltered from responsibility; a meaningless depreciation
Time monotonously calibrated; habituated minion
Brokered existence...

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Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult

Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades

during papa's prime time
many years past when complacence
existed about joie de...

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in the book of Luke there's a reference that's mentioned
a disclosure of the boy named Jesus and His future intentions
He had been chosen to wear the Jewish crown upon His head
and attend to  His Father business, a destiny spirit-led
the teenage boy Jesus, the Adolescent...

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I want to be younger to the point where i didn't give a damn what i looked like and have that mentality of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden when they where naked and it didn't bother them. Realistically i would like to...

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Dear Edward,

Grow out your wings first 
before you flap them, little bird.
Your wings aren't strong enough 
to fly just yet; keep your feet firmly 
planted on the ground, for now.

Keep the wheels of your dreams spinning;
it will pay dividends in the future. 
Keep burning that...

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Carefree days and endless nights
Great surprises and delights
Dreaming of my future goals
And what story will told

Watching stars on favorite shows
Wishing that I had a role
Reading books on faraway lands
And envisioning my plans

What would my destiny entail
Will my fortune be derailed
Will I achieve enormous heights
Will my...

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There are so many
beautiful teenagers
that laugh
and joke
and make you feel bad about yourself.
 
And we know, okay,
we’re sorry.
We’re just so confused
about why it’s so easy to push
someone down when we’re already on the ground.
 
Please empathize with us
when we are home alone
and admit to ourselves:
Every...

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Why give someone everything
And let them have the power to make you do anything
Just because you gave them everything
Because you feel something for them
Doesn’t give them the right to treat you like an item 

Boys who chase girls, just for the banging
Aren’t really themselves, their...

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Facial blemishes at a tender age shouldn’t be a lasting problem.
If day dreams cause one to not turn the page that is a problem.

Excess of any kind, to a point of distraction, should be amended.
TV and computer time, cut short of satisfaction, will soften a...

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