Introspection Teen Poems

In a breeze of timid whispers 
and with wary downcast eyes
the secret world was opened 
to where true depth of feeling lies.

With each step, stories...

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Would I be disappointed though
If this didn’t lead to more?
Four years of waiting
And all we have is idle conversation.
Two people who changed so much
That they’re...

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I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.

The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise fall through the curtains as I...

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It's hard to feel like
your growing up when you're moored
- sheltering at home.

I am patiently
waiting to take the helm of my
life's navigation.

My life, so far,...

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I had to learn to be still - it was a hard discipline, for me.
Impatience is my curse, it’s the underbrush fuel of my anger.
Unanswered...

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Simple is exact - uncomplicated, 
with power to relax the unmotivated.
Silence, except a counting clock
where time’s passing is illustrated.

Simple is enough, and it awaits
me in...

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Teenage years were the coldest , held his first cigarette at age 16.
Chose wrong friends, this was the phase of a 'Rogue mindset' .
On a...

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Just for tonight
Let me be on my own.

No looks of
"Are you alright?"
I need my time.

Space is a dear friend.
I rely on their presence.
It's like a...

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Feeling grown up
On the edge

Older cousins
Invite me
Nonchalantly
To follow them
Into their world
That magical world
They call normal

Hold my breath
Surprised, hesitant, poker faced
I head down the stairs

The basement...

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My pride feels like chains on the inside
And it's keeping me from living free

My mind is playing tricks on me 
I don't know what to...

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When I was walking down the corridor once, 
Thinking about school philosophy and rationale, 
I was stopped by the school doctor dead;
He wanted to know...

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Swish thud goes the pendulum,
Giving every second significance,
With each moment as important.

Taking me into myself, for myself,
Able to access my abstraction,
Feeling my own presence positively.

The...

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This is another age of amazing discovery,
and teens are drown into its magical light
by taking giant steps to keep up with technology;
and yet older folks...

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Food, ale, smoke, sleep, and solitude—
     these are the things which I live for;
provide for me lamb barbecued, 
  ...

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I wake on the sand
Right near the beach
You have yet to awake
Far out of reach
And Daybreak has arrived
A beauty unlike any other
Comparable only to us,...

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