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Since 1998 The Poetry Zone has published around 30,000 poems by young people and has had millions of visitors – children and teenagers, real live poets and other adults – who want to check us out, especially teachers who use the Poetry Zone as a fun way of teaching poetry in their schools.

NOTE TO SCHOOLS SENDING POEMS. I’m very happy for schools to send us poems. But I do edit all poems – in the same way that poems would be edited in a book. This does take time – and so I would ask schools to limit the number of poems sent. If a school sends, say, 30 poems – one from every class member – I may have to choose a selection to appear in the Poetry Zone. Schools may, however, send as many poems as they would like for competitions..

Poo Poo Poo! Rude poems can be very funny but be warned – if you send us poems about farts, bottoms or poo they won’t be appearing in the Poetry Zone. So please stop sending us rude poems. 

And do please remember that all the poems you send should be your own original work. Meanwhile keep writing and sending us poems. We love to read them. Be careful and stay safe

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It’s Christmas Poem Time!

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Latest Poems

Swami the Tsunami

by Lakshita K Iyer aged 10

Dear Swami, you are 17 days old,
But you are not quiet as my mother had fortold.
When you wail, when you cry,
The roof touches the sky.

When you drink milk with a slurp,
Then

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Snow

by Isla Froberg aged 7 (I am 11 now)

I can hear the rustling leaves floating in the whistling wind.
I can see the crisp white snow crunching under my footsteps.
I can smell the freezing air rushing quickly up my nose.
I can taste thick,

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Banana Socks

by Aafia Maryam aged 10

Banana socks,
There are no more in stock,
The name gave me a shock,
So I bumped into a rock.

Ketchup shoes,
I have no time to lose,
This thing gave me a bruise,

…Read the rest

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