Emotions Teen Poems

Write on me - I’m a blank page,
here to meet expectations.
Scribble, erase - copy and paste,
refine me with your impatience.

I’m a canvas for you to...

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was it so long ago I slept
on my front steps
under the black sky.
Just thirteen and not knowing
I was asleep that whole year.
Holes in my sneakers...

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Eight months since the virus shut the door on the world.
It’s October and it’s like we’re hiding from the law. 
You called me yesterday -...

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I loved riding my
bike as a child. It offered
me a new world view.

I was fast and free.
Then we put cards in the spokes,
and I motorcycled.

I...

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I put my hands on the table after you.. 
I drink from your half-empty glass.. 
I sit in your still-warm chair. 
I signal you but...

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My mom didn't say anything
and even dad wasn't at home
Again, I went out with him
Now I've realized it's wrong!

Sigh, I've been cheated by him
and my...

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Sometimes I
want to yell "I don't care"
in my mom's face.

When she blithely tries
to measure my sad prison
world to her own youth.

That prehistoric
reality, of phonebooths and
whatever,...

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force, punish, burden,
insistent coercion, and threat,
compulsion, tension.

Stressful stranglehold,
urge, force per unit area,
fuss, influence, duress. 
...

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I am heading off to another dream
Where life and I make the perfect team
 
 
Date Written: 8/17/2020...

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(each stanza is a haiku - I think I’m in a Haiku phase)

I never think of
drinking tea - that's just not
me - but I like...

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Saane gin raha hoon apni mojodgi ka na khayal na mahobat ka ehsas samay mano tham sa gaya rook bas mai nahi bola samay tham...

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Each stanza is a 5-7-5 Haiku

You don’t know me
Not really. You just might see
someone smiling bright

You might hear a laugh
skipping off my dark surface
inside I...

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If you could read my thoughts,
I'd sound like an emo teen
But with a better grasp 
of the English language 

Despite the tiredness within
I remind myself...

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I am unkissable
I am unreachable
I am semi-innocent
I am under pressure
I have an impassioned mind
I need to be taken in hand
I need to love soberly
...

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Like Mozart’s Cherubino, I know nothing of love
but I am waiting on the runway, idling like a jet
I am burning my composure
I am inviting trouble
I...

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