Teen Narrative Poems

How unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore,...

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When I was just a little boy
we picnicked under alpine skies,
one time a mule deer strolled out
and fed in the meadow nearby.
Tall, curving antlers rising...

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Mimshak*
by
Rick Folker

As the Lord lives, it must be the Lord himself who will strike him, whether the time comes for him to die, or he...

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I made a U turn at dusk as dark night creeps  upon me
I tried to catch my breath from the horrible smell that was...

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She forgot how it feels like to sleep;
dreams only take her back to her past,
which she tries to forget,
repressing them with pot and sleeping pills.
She...

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While the light is still shining, I take my notepad to the window sill, and with my ink blue pencil write your name and again........

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The classroom door snapped shut.
Students looked up from their work.
In walked a teen with a red crew cut.

I listened to the sound made by his...

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A high school graduate sits at a liquor store,
looking at her life sweetly slipping in the hands
of people she calls friends.
Every guy in the street...

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She excitedly entered the house;
dry leaves and grass were fiddling
against each other in the night wind,
from behind her.

As she walked in the house,
the wooden floor...

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A Life Changing Misdial

One of my favorite poems is Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”, which I read for the first time in high school. ...

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Great Grand Father

Two years ago I sat at our dinning room table and told a short story
To my grand children.   The story was...

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Once upon a time there lived a little boy.  Raised amidst poverty and apartheid,
his world was one in which ignorance was hard to beat.

When...

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Don’t throw it away
I never had lots of people that actually believed in me as a kid  . I always had these delusional thoughts...

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Walk the streets, Passed the subway trains 
Echos of piss and debris, Filled streets 
Rushed paces, Sky scrapers withhold glory 
Look onto and pass, The...

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that old song came on the radio today.
I smiled softly, letting my hair meet the gentle force of the wind through the windows of my...

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I was in second grade when I started comparing myself to other girls.
I asked myself, “why am i not her?” “why are my thighs bigger?”...

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TGIF, TGIF, TGIF, TGIF;
Four letters and my best friends.
"You go next,"
Into the chasing room I went.
I came out after some moments, "What a lovely red...

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This is a girl. She cried. She died everyday. Over and over again. 
 "Why is she still walking around if you say she is...

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