Beauty Teenage Poems

To be under the same sky
To be made of the same elements
To have admired the same moon
To have crossed paths 
To know that we're both...

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We talked
Then walked
The stars aligned
Too briefly
Now two fates
Resigned

We hoped
We dreamed
But not to be
The ache 
Frustrates 
Reality

A senseless joy
When girl 
Meets boy
To lose 
Un-promised
Hopeful joy

Life is...

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As the weather chooses its flavour for the hour,
Stubble-ended wood shaves itself on the layers of unseen ground.
Synthetic puke seeps through pores seeking to devour
Every...

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The festive furious festival of
Fifteen and fourteen year olds
Had functionally formed the
Teenage takeover brigade. 
The boy and girl gladiators they
Were everywhere. And DJ had 
His...

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Tui was a little boy, 
With a heart full of joy. 
He loved to play and explore, 
And learn about the world more.

One day, his...

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She was a believer until life took away grace from inside her bosom now she is a deceiver!


A receiver of gifts and her body an...

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KYLIE  HERBUELA

Acrostic



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A girl gifted and alluring,
She's versatile, she's obscuring,
She seems as if she's a perfectionist,
But here's a word from a specialist,
He says she is not what...

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"writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear ..."
Beatles, Eleanor Rigby
This poem refers to the increasing number of teenagers suffering from depression...

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People are aspired to be desired, so they erase.
People aspire to their 20's, so they erase.
People are deluded for immortality, embalming themself as they still...

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See the girls on the corner 
In tight tanks 
And micro minis
Popping gum
Locking eyes 
Driving boys wild
See the sunlight 
Outline their curls in gold
Memories of...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems XIII

Davenport Tomorrow
by Michael R. Burch

Davenport tomorrow ...
all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun.

Now it is always summer
and the bees buzz in...

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Loose Magic

Pee-a-boo, I see you...
Got your nose, 
and not your toes. 
Skipping rocks, 
and bubbles in the park. 

Eye contact from across the room, 
notes...

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Young she ...
         young he ... teenagers ...
         little...

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Counting snakes at stake.
Bringing a skate
to roll straight out
of my mind

Counting doubts and thoughts.
I wanna see it let out.
Living the experience
of being out of place

Vivid...

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