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I am a fifteen year old poet. I love what I do, but I constantly feel opposition by adults who do not respect the work of a minor. It is not their fault, our culture is at the moment very ageist. I have decided what is needed is a collection of poetry written by people under eighteen, to be published wherever I can get it to be. I am trawling the internet, leaving notices at my school, everything I can to find work. Now this is where you come in.

If there are any teenage poets (anyone under the age of twenty) out there, can you please donate some of your work to this cause. I will not be able to pay you, as there would be so many different people it would be impossible to keep track. However you will of course get the benifit of getting your work published for a wide audience, as wide as I can make it. If you want to help me, then please leave the poem(s), your name (can be just a first name if you want), location in the world, and your age of writing. If you don't want to give this information freely on a forum, then please e-mail me at James.TeenagePoetry@quoque.com. I assure you this is no scam and I am really intending to go through with this. If you have any questions, please ask.

are you looking for 'grown-up' poetry written by teens, or something else?
and can i suggest some of the people on the depressing poetry thread might be interested - its not all depressed and some is heaps good

id be interested, for sure, if u thought it was actually any good

if it got published, would u pay the authors then??

are you looking for 'grown-up' poetry written by teens, or something else?
and can i suggest some of the people on the depressing poetry thread might be interested - its not all depressed and some is heaps good

id be interested, for sure, if u thought it was actually any good

if it got published, would u pay the authors then??

I'd pay them if I could. If I get a hundred different authors each getting three quid then it would be a little difficult to manage. I'd probs give the money to an arts college or something. It is something to think about. Regards to your stuff, why don't you send it to me so I can take a look? I'd be most apreciated. I am looking for any poetry at all written by teens. All it has to be is original.

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Some of the poems are so bad, they're inspired. Especially the "Ode to the Woman with One Eye".

No, I don't think any of it is by teens, but I found it very inspiring. :D

lookin for anything specific? i think i have at least one or two laying around. . .

On a sidenote, who do you think are more oppressive of teenage poets? Adults or other teens?

found em! :)
(i'll split them into two posts)
A Beautiful Noise

Ah! What beautiful noise
Make the trumpets of
Impending war
They call the meek, the strong
The fearful, courageous
Under one banner.

But to lead these meek
Do you need the strong?
Do your leaders need to be fierce?
Or need you only more men
To satisfy
The butcher’s bill?

No
Men are like cattle
Led to slaughter
In fields of unknown love
Their leader
Is what makes them great.

Leadership, the trait of
Generals and captains
To analyze, to predict, to win
To find weakness and grow it
To find strength and show it.

For on those fields of gray
Where good men go to die
They live or die
On leadership
To get them
Through to the
Other side

But beneath those leaders
Fearless and tactical as they are
Sit the men who win the battles
The men like you and I
But let us not
Forget
Those who take orders, not give
And remember that the ones
Who are never named
Are the ones who deserve the attention.

this one's looooonnnngg
(wacky rhyme scheme too)
Fields of Green

On fields that once were green
Two armies not yet seen
Lie sleeping in their trenches

While grieving mothers
And pining lovers
Sit crying on their benches

They sat and thought
Of nigh and naught
Of all the things that troubled ‘em

That time of innocence
Oh what a pittance
And how the captain conned ‘em

Come join us now!
Put down that plow!
Yelled out the Captain’s fall

To help those French fous
And our brit boys too
To heed the Belgian call

While sleeping in those trenches
Overcome by mindless stenches
The time had come to pass

These greenhorn men
Not eight years past ten
Would charge straight o’er the grass

Go on my boys!
Charge on My Boys!
Have your brothers died in Vain?

Or did they die
A glorious high
On this once grand grassy plain?

The whistlers’ blow o’er
The guns they roar
And they go over the top

To fight the Huns
Back to their mums
Fight them till they drop!

You jump the rim
Above the din
You hear the Sarge “Keep Going!”

But then, a flash
A sudden blast
And time sat simply slowing

Laying there, deep in mud
Relief at such a horrible dud
But with a growing knowing

Of people not liked
With a helmet spike
Have taken your legs an’ ran with ‘em

That no only them
But the service men
Have taken your life an’ run with it

Of all this pain
For that much gain
All that you are fighting for

Was simply a ruse
Covered up in a Bluse
That some things aren’t worth dying for.

I know of only one really good poet who is under 18, the rest tend to lean towards crap. Sorry.

I think that if your a good enough poet, you can enter contests for poetry and gain recognition among real critics. Many teens I know have won Scholastic poetry awards, as well as many other poetry contests held by colleges, libraries, etc. I can't give you specific links, but the Scholastic writing awards are (i think) national (in america) for high school students and google-able.

Of course, you have to make an effort to be noticed as a teenage poet, but if your good enough, there is an audience listening for you.

Hmm...your poetry can't be that bad, unless it's emo :D

this one's looooonnnngg
(wacky rhyme scheme too)

'poem'



i like it :)

they're both about war i notice - is that just coincidence or another reason?

Hmm...your poetry can't be that bad, unless it's emo :D

Is there any other kind?

Good for you. I wrote poetry when I was a teenager, would you like any of that? Or is this for current teens only?

We're movin' on up
To the East Side
To a dee-luxe apartment in the sky
We've finally got a peice of the pie.

Fin.

(Note:I wrote this. No, I didn't. It's just the theme song from The Jeffersons.)