High School Teen Poems
These High School Teen poems are examples of poetry about High School Teen. These are the best examples of Teen High School poems written by international poets.
The Good Old Days
Twirling around the glossy smooth floor
Racing with friends on roller-skates
Tossing my hair as I glide across the room
Feeling so certain that this is my destiny
Weaving...
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Categories:
fun, high school, teen
Juvenilia: Early Poems VIJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of...
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poetry, poets, teen, teenage,
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I...
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poems, poets, teen, teenage,
Juvenilia: Early Poems IVJuvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover...
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poems, poetry, poets, teen,
Early Poems IIJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips...
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poems, poetry, poets, teen,
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts...
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kid, poetry, poets, teen,
the dark potential(a Senryu string poem)
High school girls are just
thoughtless and vague - too damn
dumb to be afraid.
Trusting too quickly
- believing things that are said
- unaware...
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teen, 11th grade, anxiety, appreciation,
shopping lists*(a poem in Senryus)*
You don’t have to count,
when you lose a boyfriend, you
know. There was just one.
He was gone before
I knew it - he wasn’t,...
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teen, 11th grade, boyfriend, environment,
coyoteI used to be excited on Fridays.
I used to have interesting plans.
My weekends were non-stop hectic,
my time was in high demand.
Now I live in repeated...
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teen, 11th grade, endurance, feelings,
Reassuring smilesSmiling at old folks
to reassure them you're
not a teenage thug.
Even though I'm in
my school uniform and look
like Mary Poppins.
I don't like talking
in front of a...
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teen, 11th grade, high school,
Poems about Children VIPoems about Children VI
Playmates
by Michael R. Burch
WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares...
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Categories:
teen, child, childhood, children, love,
Key Lime pie(A flash fiction piece)
Breathless summer heat retreats with the sun. People come out after dusk - like nocturnal animals. We’re hunting ice-cream, at a carnival-painted...
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teen, 11th grade, boyfriend, break
strong attractionsA crush is someone
you're strongly attracted to
- they just don't know it.
He doesn't know you: check.
you like him: check, he does nothing:
Check, you fall...
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teen, 11th grade, crush, high
Breakup SenryusHandy break-up Senryus.
Pick one to quickly, cut that old
relationship cord:
I'm sorry, What'd you say?
I can't hear you *confused look*
- we’re breaking up.
You’re the guy...
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teen, 11th grade, angst, boy,
don't know, don't careI swear, my parents act like they were never teens in a pandemic growing up.
I was watching “Perry Mason,” an HBO show set in the...
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Categories:
teen, 11th grade, growing up,