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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

Five Small Sharks

by Neil Ajith aged 8

One small shark
Was hunting for some fish,
and then he caught some salmon
For an evening dish.

Two small sharks
Were playing volleyball,
One was very short,
And one was very tall.

Three

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The One Shadow

by Ananya Narang

I built a garden and planted a tree.
Not because it asked me to,
But because that was the first obscurity,
I learnt to solace in.

I let its descendants become my seasons,
Its blooms to

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You Said…

by Ananya Narang

You walked away without a fight,
Yet I stayed awake through every night.

You said I had just lost my way,
Never knowing I held longer each day.

You said you couldn’t do it anymore,
I still

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