young adult poets

A WAR POEM WRITTEN BY A 17 YEAR OLD WHO IS ONE HIGH SCHOOL SEMESTER AWAY FROM GOING TO MARINE BOOT CAMP

War.  War.  I think of it often,  dream of it even, the honor, the stories of men who gave up their tomorrows, so that others could keep theirs.  But then reality sets in and the horror shines through. How saving a life is easy, but taking one is so much easier.  War.  Brothers in arms, […]

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REYLEAN LUCERO ~ WALLY WORLD

WALLY WORLD In the flower pencil I write. Writing while im drifting away. Drifting away to the tulip field, I dont like tulips. Though the fragrant is more beautiful then the tulip, Roses are more my style Roses I find at the store with the blue name The store that is solid for everything, To […]

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WINNING POEMS FROM 2nd ANNUAL KAREN TRUJILLO POETRY CONTEST for high school poets in Las Cruces, NM 2023

First place Straight Jacket society Jayna Marks Can you hear the six white walls? Padded and plastered in cement They don’t creek, they speak They don’t leak, they screech Do you listen? Do you listen? Do you hear? The drowned voice of your reflection Or see your thoughts play a movie like your eyes are […]

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