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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

Competition!

It’s Christmas Poem Time!

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Latest Poems

New School

by Aaradhya Pipari aged 12

So worried,
Feels like I am buried!
Subjects like maths,
They hit my head like bats!
So much to know,
I feel so low!
What to do?
Everybody says “BOO!”
So many

…Read the rest

Me!

by Yole aged 8

hi this is me
i want to be 17
i am keen
and wanna be really clean

i am not dumb
i knew how to spell
since year 1
to me boys are mean

…Read the rest

Ode to a Leather Jacket

by Shivaram Mahadeva aged 10

The dark embrace of leather holds you tight,
A second skin against the autumn chill,
While shadows deepen over vale and hill,
And stars awaken in the velvet night.
It captures warmth and shields you from

…Read the rest

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