Jacqueline Trestrail
...On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won best...
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Categories:
teen angst, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose
The Glutton
...It started with candy corn
on Hallows eve when I was ten,
as dad escorted us from house to house
on that windy night.
Sadistic pleasure was mine,
as I bit the tiny white tips
from each piece...
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Categories:
teen angst, food,
Form: Free verse
Teen Drama
...Calling out all broken dreams
Lost in perspective
Nouns and adjectives aren't what it seems
Stray from the original direactive
Lost in language
The truth and lies combine
You'll lose your m...
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Categories:
teen angst, anger, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Teen Angst
...I’m sitting here alone on my bed
What should I do? I’m bored!
I feel like pulling hair outta my head
I’m feeling so ignored
Should I watch TV or play the DS?
Or call a friend on the phone?
I could c...
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Categories:
teen angst, angst, confusion, growing up,
Form: Verse
I Wish
...I wish fatherhood could be written into words.
Let daddisms be put into pages.
Papaness be published in poetry for people without.
Let little surprises that the old man fixes,
be signified and ...
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Categories:
teen angst, father, inspirational, philosophy, teen,
Form: Alliteration
Teenage Rejection
...Glasses thick, bottle style
in classes social and other,
condemn the wearer young and sweet;
jailed not of her own choosing,
but for her birth place in societal realms.
Though she strives-trie...
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Categories:
teen angst, angst, childhood, life, sad,
Form: Free verse