9Th Grade Teen Poems

As I listen to the stories my grandmother told
The tears I cry are heavy to hold
I wish I could tell my grandmother things have changed
But...

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If your heart was a diamond, perfect and clear,
glittering gleaming like a broken heart's tear,
if lust was coal, dusty and black,
would it make you realize...

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I try to be the good girl,
The girl who has it all together,
But I'm not.

I'm the girl crumbling into pieces trying to find herself,
The girl...

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I wake up and my mind starts racing,

You say you’ve never anxiety my god that must be amazing,

I try to find the root of mine...

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Spring love believer
look listen feel remember
take it to the limit...

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First day of Lab,
we sat as assigned.
She wrote one word
across the board:

'Laboratory’

She turned and said 
"This is a laboratory.
Let’s have more of the first five
and...

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Summer ends                       ...

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I walked up to the fourth floor,                  ...

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green is not your color-envy is not your friend


 
Date Written: 9/2/2020
2 Place    My Most Unforgettable Moment in High School Contest ...

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Drop dead gorgeous dark eyed bus boy chased
Peer assured status, focus of my fascination
High fiving idol guffawed and elbowed adjacent
Mates in droves, admirers in rows,...

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Why,
Why do grow up so quick?
Why do we wish to be an adult?
Why do we wish our childhood over?

Freedom.
The answer is freedom...

How can we enjoy...

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Let me stay in my room,
Let me sleep till 11 o’clock
Let me go to sleep at 2 AM
Don’t be mad when I’m in my room...

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Scads of decades ago...

Metaphorical mama's yoyo
came undone, unleashing woe
doggone wizard of oz sought in toto
afore final picture show
would play staging pro
sic cuter determining
irrevocable fate oh...

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That active song won't let me forget.
It's lyrics spin like dancing wet ink,
and for four solid minutes I think
I am sixteen, playing Juliet.

That painted song...

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I killed her.

Her smile gone.
Her skin pale.
Her eyes a void of darkness.

The knife-in my hands.
Covered in tears:
Lies
And 
Fake promises.

Her heart gone; her hope lost.
Her trust...

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