Dark Teenage Poems

You wanna kill yourself
I think I know why,
You just can't take it anymore, the voices in your head are getting too high,
They like it when...

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I didn’t really know what I should do.
Dad said, “you need to pull her close to you.”
When I tried to do like he told me...

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I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words...

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We live with
    Fake people,
    Fake hope,
           Even though...

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Many years ago,
girls wore girdles.
The tight uncomfortable things,
they held one in tight.
One summer's night,
I snuck my girlfriend out.
We were off on a double date,
a night...

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I used to be alone,
nobody to talk to. 
Kept everything to myself.
Had a lot to work through.

then I got some friends,
they helped me for a...

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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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part 2 of 2

8 No Love in the Heart of Town

Hot summer day
Fetty Wap heavy rotates
Done pretendin' to find a God charades
Besides feelin' not havin...

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footnotes

im tryina finish another 20 page chapbook

this is the first part of 2 of what i got so far because its too long for 1

then...

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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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I, was created
by the dance of nostalgia and stupid pride
I, held captive by eyes
Pinned me down and shaped my style

I suit up and fade out
to...

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Had chasing salacious not sparked her curious 
     Outcast student wouldn’t have bothered to goad
     Beguile fellow...

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EARLY POEMS XXI - JUVENILIA

Dance With Me
by Michael R. Burch

(circa age 18)

Dance with me
to the fiddles’ plaintive harmonies.
Enchantingly,
each highstrung string,
each yearning key,
each a thread within...

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Inspired by the moving storyline from Episode 6 "Love conquers Al" of the interesting TV show, "Cold Case". This episode is based on the true...

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This worm is proud to be green,                  ...

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