Teen Memorial Poems

Bullying's grip, psychological effects so powerful,
Leaves imprints on hearts, sensitive and fragile,
For every action so appalling, we shall defy.
With upstanding that uplift, heal, and unify,
And...

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When my mother discussed his story,
I was tragically shocked and enraged.
How could someone kill a teenager?
Assuming Yoshihiro was a trespasser?

An exchange student, a young teenager,
From...

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NO MORE TO TRY AGAIN
By Tapiwa N. Maseko

At first my heart was filled with every sweet-talk 
It was so prompted in a love walk
Because of...

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Remembering that day in May - when I became corporate prey
On this unforgettable day - an innocent child was thrown away
Last night as I lay...

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Grace, she had deemed absurd, 
she fought memory's bluebird, 
 a voice she'd forgotten, 
misty conscience was blurred.  

A teen peer-pressure nerd, 
shadows posed...

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It’s Memorial Day

I thumb through my high school yearbook,
Soiled, unpadded from another day.
My children don’t know of our mindset then,
The second war all wars to...

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Fake Words – Zamreen Zarook

God have given us mouth,
Not to speak to north and south,
Tongue is given under an oath,
So it’s our duty to protect...

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I suppose since time immemorial - Dads have provided tutorial,
Doing their best to strive - To teach their kids how to drive.
Though Dads were never...

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An old man looking out his door,
gaze fixed on a distant shore,
reminiscing to a time, not of happiness,
or, the prospect of a bright future,
to when...

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All that was holy died in resplendence.
  kerbstones bit gutters and gutters sucked road,
black and white zebra stripes buried by snowflakes,
  wires fizzed...

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