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Woven Worlds - Tanka Prose
a group of students from Japan visiting India - a city so crowded they had never seen! In their young minds, everything seems beautiful - loud street-vendors, smell of spicy food, dangers of crossing...
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Categories:
world, youth,
Form: Other
Day TripLeave it all behind. There’s no room for your baggage,
but your togs, towel and the factor 50 promise.
Sail the roads west.
Teenage freedom is in the bottom of the lidl bag,
clung by ice-creamed fingers, up the...
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Categories:
youth, beach, friendship love, fun,
Form: Free verse
She saysBirds are meant to fly , so as I
Sky are meant to be open , so as I
Rainbows are meant to be colourful , so as I
Memories are meant to be created , so as...
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Categories:
youth, age, appreciation, beautiful, care,
Form: Rhyme
I'm sorryI'm sorry
I must have said something
That hurt you few years ago.
I apologize
How I jokingly but intentionally
Made you doubt you.
I should feel sorry
If that wasn't your day
But I didn't...
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Categories:
youth, best friend, betrayal, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Young Person
Young Person
Did You Know
Miracle Man
3/15/24
Seeds of success seldom sprout,
unless watered with perspiration.
If Patience isn’t in your formula,
your shy an important ingredient.
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Categories:
success, work, youth,
Form: Free verse
The Hero Code: DecodedEnthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests all their own.
With villains I tangled, with champions I soared,
Their...
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Categories:
hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative
BookarazziDusty pages unfurling in the beam of sunlight
Sniffing every character just as writer's soul
Ringing in the real fresh memory of bookrack
Riped leaves hovering in Shakespearean style
Saddened to confer the last page teared apart
The way gadgets...
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Categories:
youth, bible, imagination, inspiration, internet,
Form: Free verse
At the Movies
Categories:
sound, youth,
Form: Senryu
Pigeon ManPigeon Man Frank,
buried underneath the
morning fog coddling the
fractured arteries of
urban sprawl
which mill humanity
against civilization's grindstone
Pigeon Man Frank,
bears wounds of scorn
as a foul wraith that
dredges along the
peripheries of civil society,
Lo! the herpes sore
squatting on the
public's...
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Categories:
youth, addiction, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
My dadThere once was a time when I was younger
When the thrills of life I did hunger
But as time has passed
Moments dont last
Where did that all go I do wonder.
(This poem was written in the...
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Categories:
growing up, youth,
Form: Free verse
INFLUENCETook my hands and spotted the scars
Brainstorming on followers i would set loose
Serving my persona amidst fictitious comrades
Whipped out flaunting dummy soma
Chasing down the soul to bent toward authentic self
Seeking my failings hidden in brandish...
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Categories:
youth, addiction, for teens, friend,
Form: Free verse
Children's Poems IVChildren's Poems IV
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Boundless
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Every day we whittle away at the essential solidity of him,
and...
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Categories:
youth, baseball, boy, child, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Tomorrow is Yours to TakeI weep for yesterday
Its thought springs pain
Of all I ought to gain
Console me not
Coz it purges and purifies my heart
As it energize me for tomorrow wrapped in today
If the anxiety of tomorrow's promise
Kick away the...
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Categories:
youth, adventure, allusion, day, future,
Form: Rhyme
Where has youth fled
Categories:
youth, child, cry, farewell, old,
Form: Rhyme
FAILURE DETOURTrapped in meaningless whirling thoughts
Boundaries draped around body
Unsaid words confined in laughing gear
Dread sentiment flowing in breadbasket
Trembling uncertainity waving inside stump
Sealed in anitcipation of utopian epoch
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Categories:
youth, anger, anxiety, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Youth Poems
Definition | What is Youth in Poetry?
Poems Related to Youth
minor, boyhood, juvenescence, puberty, ignorance, jejuneness, inexperience, greenness, innocence, immaturity, bloom, childhood, adolescence, salad days, teens, girlhood, youngness, springtide, youthfulness, jejunity, awkward age, springtime of life, tender age,