Welcome to The Poetry Zone!
Hi Everyone, welcome to The Poetry Zone.
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
Latest Poems
Sunset Love
byYou, the first one I met
Saw you residing by the fading sunset
I never saw a sight so bright-
I knew you were right
Like the sun you shone,
Have I really won?
Surely
Stranger to the Ocean
byThose who’ve caught a glimpse of the ocean before,
Don’t realize how miraculous it is to this stranger outside,
How desperately I’d like for it to be my guide,
How shoddily I’ve crafted fantasies just to visualise,
The Box Full of Goodbyes
byThere once lived a boy in Willow Lane,
He had always been scared of the sound of coming rain.
Because to him, rain meant people went away,
And left their shadows where they lay.
He kept a
