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

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It’s Christmas Poem Time!

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Latest Poems

Monster Flower

by Abigail

Don’t look at me! You wouldn’t understand right?

And though I pray, the secret is slipping away.

I’m bounded by these shackles of shame.

I don’t know anything. I don’t talk about it.

Stay with me, I plead.

This unseemly

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Grace

by Esme aged 10

I wake with grace
I wake with kindness
I wake with all things great
In this moment of my life
I feel grace in the sky
Up high in the sky
Growing so high

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Life

by Kashish Rana aged 12

Life is a race
Go and win it.
Life is a rope
Don’t cut it.

Life is a phrase,
Don’t forget it.
Life is a chance,
Don’t lose It.

Life is a hope,

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