Ocean Teenage Poems

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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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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This worm is proud to be green,                  ...

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Along the beach the youthful surfers gather
To survey the breakers pounding the coral reef
In the late morning hours before the crowds arrive.

Then one by one,...

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The green-blue marks of the tufuga's* tools run down his thighs
Patterns in shades of deep-ocean-dark and unsealed-road-like lines
Back to his ancestors and forward to his...

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My birthright are the emerald islands in the sparkling
Waters of the Pacific Ocean,
With the beckoning sun, the cresting waves, and the jeweled sands,
A paradise in...

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What is depression?
Depression is a war
It's a battle you have against yourself 
Every thought you have is a bullet more
Every word is a knife in...

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I call to mind our nights till dawn
Watching the sunrise
Beautiful was that ocean of gold sky
We looked into each others eyes with love

Our future was...

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But, what if I am
not as great as you say?
What if I can’t turn 
the grey sky into a beautiful blue?

What if I can’t make
the...

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Saw a thin fume of carbon
Climbing the dusk; 
Chains of children 
Marching down the hill
To mount to the fire
That blazed on the mountain
Within no blink
Torching...

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I see you walking down the hall.
Your gorgeous blonde hair, 
Thoughtful blue eyes, and 
Perfect smile make me flustered.

I try to disappear into myself
When I...

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Blue.
The color of the sky with
no clouds to dull it
Blue.
The robin's egg in the spring.
Blue.
The way the water looks
in the ocean.
Blue.
Like your gorgeous
eyes outlined with...

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Oh my son, my son…What have you done?
You will never know of my sleepless nights
or turmoil of waking from nightmares.
Lost to me are the years...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

A large Turtle sits on a beach watching the light reflecting off the sea
This Turtle swims in the ocean and sometimes he...

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Rain threatening to pour,
so much pain don’t know what for.
Every word comes out all wrong,
just listen when she sings a song
Every stanza she sings her...

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