11Th Grade Teen Poems

I watch the way you look at her- 
the way you look at me- 
and it is the same.
 The way you smile,
 look at...

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I searched only to find,
days more survived,
th'n wooed by life,
asking the heavens why.

Her name held a promised vow..
likened to a solitary bell,
from tall steeple's climb,
oh,...

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I've grown rusty and unused to summoning words from a blank page - but FINALLY - there's something new to describe. School (11th grade) is...

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A child is somewhere scribbling,
not quite knowing what to say,
a junkie with a habit of empty words.

The smart money’s on failure
and I can’t seem to...

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School uniforms
are the last, tired gasp of a
dying patriarchy.

You see a DARK bra
under my blouse? Oh, God! Who
knew girls wore those!

School uniforms, with
long sleeves, aren't...

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Don - they tell me you're leaving
I can't believe it's true,
that we’ll get to live without you.

You’ll go away - govern-mentally,
after all this pain and...

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Draw a stick figure 
future - diminished
and virus ransomed.

Paint the landscape
with the sweltering glare
of global warming.

Come share this
with me - let kisses heal and
soft whispers...

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What do theologians call a life without events?

The lights of my prison-like room dawn before sun's first blush. 
I open sand-papery eyes as my AI...

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Morning's induction act -
the sun breaks cover bright as
Los Alamo's flash....

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............I found
    some           words
that        ...

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The question is:
“Are people still collecting
memories, these days?”

"This isolation 
isn't bothering me much.”
I say, if I'm asked.

But I’m not sure that’s
true. After hundreds of nights
of...

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Now I understand
why dogs get so excited
about going out.
...

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virtual school moments (in Senryus)

I forget that I'm
virtual school, because I'm
really in my room.

And start brushing my
hair or singing a song I'm secretly 
listening to...

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Argh!
Damn phone alarm.
I gulp haste.
I open my school app - like an eyelid.
Invade my sanctuary, virtual tyranny.
Where's my focus?! 
*looking around for my coffee cup*
I...

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(a firefly)

Put that imagination away before you hurt someone.
...

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