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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

Stubborn Hope

by Aayat Narang

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Beauty is subjective to us all.
So instead I wonder if a single soul alive,
Would mourn someone such as I.
Would they scream?
Would they cry?
No forget-me-nots

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Life’s Cursed Being

by Arnold Vascsinec

It was cold, unfair and beyond painful.
Everyday to see the chain warp around my throat
choking me slowly, deathly and blissfully.

I was in hell, looking at heaven the world I live in
spared me no

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The Weight of Bullying

by Claudia Boateng Darkwah

Bullying is always bad
it can be in whispers
it stabs you
breaks you
makes you get blisters
they make you feel deserted, isolated, alone.
“You are useless” – those words are the worst

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