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Teen Ink Magazine, October 2005: Poetry

New Orleans
by Jenna P., Hopkinton, MA
   Old man on the pier -
claims he’s the human jukebox.
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My Paper Crane
by Rebecca S., Bryn Mawr, PA
   Your face is perfectly (still)
A contrast to the
Wrinkled, cowardly loose-leaf
Of your note.
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Sonnet
by Alice Y., San Gabriel, CA
   ons mild and harsh the farmer waits
With patience uncorrupted and well-bound;
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My New Shadow
by Katelyn G., New City, NY
   The games we played
Monopoly
You hated them
But you still sat
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Rain
by Adam R., W. Chazy, NY
   Water’s sharp sweet sound
dropping into giant trees
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Math
by Tara C., Bellingham, MA
   “I cannot solve this way,”
Said loud and smart Dave Jose.
“I know the measures and the liters.
The sums, numbs’ and circums’ in meters.
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Mama’s Things
by Heather M., Stanardsville, VA
   We were the bangs that
covered her eyes ...
the bangs that hadn’t been washed
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Decision Cycle
by Danielle F., Haymarket, VA
   Merge Left or Merge Right
You can go one way
See the line of grand openings
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Icicles
by Kaylie A., Cary, IL
   when did the world turn to fire?
it used to be so cold,
so dead.
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Hide & Seek
by Bethany K., Clarkston, MI
   The smoke flared up in the midnight sky
and hundreds of mosquitoes
buzzed around the campfire.
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Marmalade Sunrise
by Sarah B., W. Mesquite, TX
   In apricot skies
The sun mimics toast delight
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Dancing With Him
by Aly E., Warsaw, Poland,
   To tango, rock, hip hop, to music, I
dance with him.

My toes on his toes, my youth to his adulthood,
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Gasp
by Elizabeth E., Frankfort, IL
   O wise autumn
You are perfect in your imperfection
You are a teacher and a healer
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If the moon could see a night sky listening
by Emilie L., Madison, WI
   If the moon could see,
and the night sky could listen,
they would see and hear her next to me.
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My Poetic License
by Nik ., Kalispell, MT
   Drowning
Similes and metaphors pull me in slowly
And finally, the rhyme scheme fills my mouth and nose
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Pluck-A-lash
by Katherine T., Troy, MI
   somewhere between your
ILUVGOD license plate and
the cheap tinsel angel
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Eggshells
by Connor M., Solon, OH
   As I stepped into the
crisp cool October night,
watching the moon
rise the length of
a 25 m.p.h. sign.
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What My Grandfather Told Me
by Jonny O., Tucson, AZ
   He said his heart was made of grain
His woes were cinder dust
That washed away with the rain
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Apparition
by Lauren H., Hopkinton, MA
   I was asleep that night
The night when its fatal wings beat a path
Through the covered bridge
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