Poetry for teens to use at a contest?
Does anyone know where I can find any poetry about teen issues like those in the Chicken Soup for the Teenager’s Soul books? I need a long poem about 8 minutes that I can use for speech and drama.
Last year i used the poem “The Bully” that I found in CSFTS IV. Something similar would be great!
- emg_91
Tags: Bully, Poetry For Teens, Soul Books, Teen Issues, Teenager
January 30th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I can’t remember the title but it is in Chicken Soup for the Teenagers Soul on Tough Stuff. It is a poem about being judged, and it starts something like, ‘do you know what it’s like to be me, have you ever walked in my shoes’.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Some places:
Hope I helped! Good luck!
January 31st, 2009 at 2:46 pm
i am a young teen who has written two. not from any book or anything but here imaginary-
i was alone,
without a friend.
i made you up,
straight out of my head.
my fantasies,
my long lost dreams,
concealed in you,
made up by me.
as time passed,
my love for you grew,
the person made up
that nobody knew.
all my day,
all my night,
thinking of you,
we never fight.
i get so obsessed,
it’s hard to believe,
your not really there,
an emotional test.
i dont know why,
this could make me cry,
but these thought of you…
need to die!
too much time,
with you in my mind,
i need to be preoccupied.
with something new,
just not you!
as time progressed,
i thought about you
more than i thought about the others i knew.
i know its sad,
it makes me mad.
once dominating my head.
and now you’re dead.
my ex-immaginary friend
-holly bessey. jan.6 2008
thats just what i get.
why do i get so stressed?
my life is a giant mess.
everyone else seems fine.
my feelings are hidden inside.
and then there goes the school bell,
now my life is more hell!
no one wants to try,
to see what i have inside.
all the pain they cause
rewarded with applause.
the say everyone has friends.
they say it AGAIN and AGAIN!
but y why dont I have…just one?
ive forgotten the meaning of fun.
people laugh at me.
i only want to be free!
from the terrible things they say.
every single day.
so i hide myself.
from this small…mean town.
full of steriotypes.
haunting me i try to fight.
they see this DUMB, WIERD girl.
taking over my place.
when really i am deep and dominant
ME is left anonymous.
i pretend your watching me
or see me as i write.
i know you will never know me.
and that fills me with fright!
the feeling that im nothing.
i know its far from true.
i want to show you who i am
i know you will nver understand.
i just want to be ME again.
long ago i had 1 friend.
she was all i thought about.
every day and night.
i clung to her much harder
after every time we fight.
now she says she hates me.
and that we never were.
shes just like everybody else
but im still devoted to her!
i still try to be myself.
but ive built these walls.
surrounding my heart.
not to keep people out.
but to see who cares wnough to climb them.
my familey is all against me
i cant be who i LONG to be.
maybe because im gay
they all turn away.
i tried hard to fit in!
but YOU always win!
i live life full of fantaises.
and dreams that may never be.
but still i will hold on.
and still i will be strong.
when i get away.
things might go my way.
i live for the future.
left sick from the past.
which isnt over yet.
but thats just what i get!
-holly bessey jan. 7 2009