Teen Villanelle Poems

Near my house in the back,
bit lost on a sidetrack,
along the grassy track.

Turned a bit to backtrack,
closer is the right tack,
near my house in the...

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Welcome May you are the best
So glad to see you after winter
You took a twelve month rest


Singing birds are in their nest
Flowers blooming bright colors
Welcome...

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A Sandy Beach

In a sandy beach
Cool water around
In sunlight’s reach

Joy given to each
Playing on the ground
In a sandy beach

Time will teach
Of fun you may hound
In...

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Darker Place

Hair blackened
Me, myself
Eyes darkened

Me 'til end
Always me
Hair blackened

Will won’t bend
As you see
Eyes darkened

I do fend
Try to be
Hair blackened

That, I send
I'm not he
Eyes darkened

I don't...

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Villanelle : The lesson cannot just be one life’s lost

     for Trayvon Martin’s parents

The lesson cannot just be one life’s lost
...

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I guess everything I did or do is not good enough for you,
This Mr Nice guy is not working out to your standards isn't it...

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She has seen things in her life
That no child should have seen
Like powder on the edge of a knife

As mother inhales happiness and exhales strife
The...

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I still wonder your reply
I’ve been waiting so patiently
And yet you let me sit and cry  

I’m always so shy 
Yet I opened my...

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