To The Class of 2011We are going our separate ways, but we will not be alone. We will carry a piece of everyone around us, as well as those who are now gone. Memories may fade as we continue through life, but one thing we will all remember is this moment in time....
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Categories:
youth, 12th grade, friendship, graduation,
Form: Rhyme
Polish BoyI feel all pasts,
As if they were yesterday,
Decades but minutes to my minds and feels.
As if I were still two-tens and five,
Rather than three-tens and two.
Flashbulbs pulsed to songs played when youth was not yet known as youth.
Is today youth?
How could it be when youth was then?
I still feel me, in your arms,
And you in...
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Categories:
youth, adventure, age, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Because He Loves You
I saw your lips moving ever so infrequently.
There was silence; yet I heard you.
I also beheld your eyes. They were open
wide, wisely listening to every word.
I could feel the sponges of your heart
absorbing every drop of insightful wisdom
that fell from the lips of your elders.
You were silent; yet I felt you.
Your visit was in no...
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Categories:
god, youth,
Form: Free verse
WALLFLOWER
Categories:
youth, fun, giggle, sweet, uplifting,
Form: Monoku
Klepto
After all these years
it's my belief
based on experience
time is a thief
all wounds it heals
they say but in truth
it took my looks
purloined my zeal
and stole my youth
no matter the cost
come what may
I'm at a loss
what can I expect today
a past that won't last
or linger longer any more
and with or without me
life goes on as before
when at...
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Categories:
youth, humorous, perspective, time, word
Form: Rhyme
glimpse at time
Categories:
time, youth,
Form: Haiku
Cemetery Of My YouthWooden crosses weeping their peeling paint
broken and fractured by time
Stood like remnants of carnage from a civil war
signposts of man's ugliness from within
Silent in death, guardians of their cause
left in the farthest corner of a small cemetery
that held no importance
even to the church that owned it
Who used...
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Categories:
youth, perspective, sad,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
childhood, youth,
Form: Senryu
GraduationThe seed of a flower can be good or bad
Don't think too much about life, and be sad
Understand that the compound will pressure you a lot
Fight through the feeling and land in a perfect spot
Gravitate off the ground, rise through the air
Make the best out of life with an unbreakable stare
Have strength of a lion...
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Categories:
youth, 12th grade, creation, for
Form: Rhyme
clouds, shakespeare inspiredclouds
appear as shapes
dragons sometimes
forks and trees
naming the unnamable
a search for home
(Anthony and Cleopatra)
busyness
seeming much to do
and the rain
in opposition
(King John)
tears
and swollen rivers
dissolving
the boundaries
separating home
(Richard II)
the weather
seems to facilitate
or oppose
bringing to stories
uninvited guests
(Love's Labor Lost)
youth
a scattering for
experiences away
while never departing
from home
(Taming of the Shrew)...
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Categories:
image, words, youth,
Form: Imagism
Dead Kids Tell No Tales
“I want what they have.” and
“When is it my turn?”
“Waiting on Prince Charming”
I’m wondering when they’ll learn
You can wait for Fairy Godmother
To turn your mice all into men
But just remember, tale’s not over
When the paper reads “The End.”
Cindy-Cindy Relly
Did you see what’s on the tele?
Broken hearts, and slippers shattered
Broken record, same old pattern
Boy meets...
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Categories:
fantasy, romance, sad, youth,
Form: Rhyme
respect
May we be blessed to remember this simple truth
as each day each life unfolds….
Old people deserve the love and respect of the young…
and young people deserve the love and respect of the old....
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Categories:
age, children, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Get a RoomA young fellow back east in Lahore
was making out with his girl on the floor.
Said she "This floor is too hard.
Let's go out in the yard
and in front of the neighbors next door!"...
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Categories:
humor, love, youth,
Form: Limerick
REFLECT
Reflection
Describes how one is seen
Shows your opposite gene,
In the light of day, I see the smiles
Spreading around, bring it for a while.
Ends up, we all fake it, it seems
It was a reflection of what the world wanted to be seen
Interchangeable we grief
Leaving the past a mirror of our relief
With every step on...
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Categories:
youth, age, anxiety, christian, dark,
Form: Rhyme
1999 Intermission of my young daysIf, within the silence,
you begin the play once more,
If, even with a fine performance,
you can no longer catch
the essential lines,
If, driven by life's anxieties,
no matter what you do,
an unwanted play is staged
within your mind,
If, to shield yourself from it,
you try to guard with noise,
increasing your friends
as a form of defense,
Even if the theater fears
the days...
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Categories:
life, youth,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Youth Poems
Definition | What is Youth in Poetry?
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