April Teenage Poems

Elsie, Lucy, Olive, this small boy's remarkable old aunts.
Oh, how they rubbed their hands.
But with glee or sorrow? Or even anger?

Elsie had a strict-looking expression...

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Sandwich 

We are meat
We are cheese
We are trapped inbetween
Undesirable carbs
Of dementia and teen 

We want to be tasty
Be nutritionally good
But I'd revise this recipe
If I...

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tempting tender teachers
toward the terminus
timing their tested tricks
terrifying tougher
termagants tormenting
together team-talking
tantalizing tandem

FIRST PLACE WINNER
written April 26, 2021
for "Pleiades "T" Contest"
sponsored by Kim Merryman...

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maybe i'll play dead for a few hours
watch the trees from a safe distance
count my toes
hang my imagination out to dry.
all in an
honest days work




4/10/20...

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ugly
ducklings
their
nicknames
through
highschool
surviving
to
become
swans



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on April 9, 2019 for contest SUDDENLY SWANS sponsored by MAUREEN McGREAVY...

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My Teenage Birthday Cake

When I was a teenager
a long time ago,
there was a dessert to which
I could not say no.

I can’t say the reason why
it...

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He approaches fast

We bump - silly heart beats wildly
Him - lost in thought- No word of apology
We pass each other

He approaches fast

Eyes so blue -...

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They chuckled as they went past the warning
sign, reading "Cursed Swamp". Some of them
even did a voodoo dance, beside the swamp.

Almost two hours earlier,
an old,...

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That tragic day the school bells tolled
in April nineteen ninety-nine:
the massacre at Columbine,
the rage of Harris and Klebold.

Some say that Harris was a cold
and grandiose...

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There's four ninja turtles
Cleaning up the streets
Trained in the art of ninja karate-e
They hide down in the sewers
Watching for criminals
Could it be for real or...

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