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Best Teenager Poems

Below are the all-time best Teenager poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of teenager poems written by PoetrySoup members


Society Killed the Teenager
Society Killed The Teenager

So you want to be a princess, and save the prince yourself?
Or take steps on the moon?
Can’t you see I won’t let...

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Categories: teenager, america, gender, satire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: teenager, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member To My High School Math Teacher
Thank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!) 
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.

       Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: teenager, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Precipice of a Lost Innocence
I am standing outside my bedroom, on the precipice of lost innocence.
Wide eyed, and barefoot on cold hardwood.
Someone is hammering on our front door.
My father,...

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Categories: teenager, childhood, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Growing Pains

Every family has them
These unsettling times these misunderstandings
Times when many things come into play
In most cases these wee spats are soon over and forgotten
But sometimes...

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Categories: teenager, age,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - True Love Never Dies Or Lie -
As time flows gently by and we grow old in each other's arms
Sailing away on our memories each rising sun seems brighter 
I love the...

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Categories: teenager, beauty, blessing, happiness, love,
Form: Quatrain
Things I Have Learned
Don’t take a walk after a large glass of tea

If someone says, “sure take as many as you want” 
They probably don’t mean it

Darling you...

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Categories: teenager, funny
Form: Free verse
I Live (I Tag Poet Destroyer)
I live.
I live to write.
I write of both understandable and incomprehensible things
I am a teenager just living the average life of semi poverty just like...

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Categories: teenager, life, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Irresolution
He hurries home late from the office
and hesitates out on the lawn,
the mists are swirling like her dress,
the moon is frowning down.

The music in her...

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Categories: teenager, angst,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Spring Romance
My first sight of him was on a March day
in a restaurant where I was dining.
Oh lovely chance when his sweet eyes met mine.
Like two...

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Categories: teenager, romantic,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Call
The Call

For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I...

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Categories: teenager, angst, blessing, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Audra Cady To Daughter: a Spoon River Poem
I didn't always adhere to the warnings of the experts
		who declared nothing beyond time-outs should be used
		to correct a child’s behavior—that parents must not,
		even temporarily,...

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Categories: teenager, daughter, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member age is over-rated
Age is over rated
I went from cute and cuddly
To terribly two
In the flip of a calendar
From being inquisitive
To being nosey
From pre-teen
To A TEENAGER
Meandered
Through the military
Into...

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Categories: teenager, age, grandfather, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
My Age
MY AGE

My age is nothing but a number, nothing but a slumber that I can’t wake from, this is what I’ve done. I’ve looked around...

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Categories: teenager, age, deep, for teens,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Random Acts of Karma
The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and...

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Categories: teenager, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs