People Youth Poems

Spring is the best time of the year for this old crabapple tree. Winters are too lonely and summers too hot. Autumn is nice but...

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Almost everyday there's another problem
And I don't gotta therapist to help me solve them
I don't tell no one this, but when I was young and...

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We’d go exploring along the river and through the woods,
We’d run, and we’d whoop, then go silently to try and see a rabbit if we...

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Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. By John Burroughs


Life has many ups...

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It’s funny when we’re young and we think we know it all
we don’t always listen to what our elders have to say…
Often we don’t realize...

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Me: How did you start out?
Sand: I was born a rock. About 5 inches round and weighting
about a six pounds.

 
Me: Now did you become...

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I have been forced,
to love people I hate.
I wish I had,
only loving people around me.
My ego has been cut,
cut with a very sharp knife many...

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Oh how I wish with my yearning nostalgic heart
That I could wake up to find
Today had just been a nightmare of a dream
And it was...

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It started with a blank canvas,
the world I should make but I am anxious.
Making fields of pretty flowers,
to the deep blue seas takes many hours.
Mountains...

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Did you ever stand on stage,
behind the big curtain.
Standing there peeking out from behind the curtain,
watching the audience looking at the stage.
Your knees are shaking,
your...

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When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance

I could hear no music,
see no dancing.

The quilting room
and the...

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I felt like a book 
very tired old and worn out 
needing rest on shelf....

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Dear Enemy, 
I will wish you well and set you free. 
Your words and knife, 
will no longer hurt me. 
Too bad it all had...

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I have heard a hurt person say, 
if you knew what they did to me you would never forgive them. 
Hurt can run very deep...

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They thought they could crush her;
like a pretty little flower,
But she is much more than that; 
she holds extra ordinary power. 
They thought they could...

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