Poems
Read your poems here. Choose a category below. First poems (aged 6 and under), Allsorts (aged 7-12), True Love (poems about love, friendship, romance and heartbreak – aged 10-14), Teenage (aged 13-18) and Previous Competition Entries including Winning Poems. Or read them all.
Allsorts Read more
As I Was Walking
by agedOne day I was walking by a river.
I saw a big bird,
It was tall and skinny
And very, very silly.
Nothing like a bird I have seen before.
Never seen a bird like
The Goat
by agedMatchmaking player
GOAT of all time
Muscular legend
Bicycle kicker
Hat trick legend
Top bins shooter
Do you who he or she is?
It’s….
Revolting Rhymes
by agedI guess you think you know this story
You don’t – the other one’s just so gory
The phoney one
The one you know was cooked up years and years ago
Just to sound all soft
First Poems Read more
My Turtle Fred
by agedMy turtle Fred
He is not dead
He sleeps in his shell
And when he does die
I guess he will smell
Winter
by agedThe winter breeze blows
and blows
The snow falls
The trees are white and glow
The animals hibernate
and migrate
The children do snowball fights
Until the night
If Everything Was Upside Down
by agedIf everything was upside down.
If people were swimming in the river,
They would fall down in the sky.
Ants and people
Would start having conversations
With the sky.
Also the sky and sun
True Love Read more
What is Not Love?
by agedLove is not when you’re full,
but your friends keep taking pieces.
Love is not when people love you for your looks,
your money, your fame.
Not when people don’t like being around you.
When
The Dark
by agedI’m always in the dark, always in despair.
Then you tell me you don’t like my hair, honestly, I don’t care.
But I don’t see why you need to make fun of me, but do if you dare.
School Life
by agedConstantly falling
into the deep end
constantly failing
is it a trend?
My teachers are screaming
the bells are ringing
but the bell doesn’t dismiss you, I do
Trapped up – locked up even though
Teenage Read more
Stop All Wars!
byWe have witnessed war
It should be no more
What are we even flighting for?
Let’s try to make
the wars no more.
Peace is want we need
it should be for all
presidents
The Flicker of Yesterday
byOnce upon a simpler time,
When life was light, and youth would chime,
I’d ride the bus through golden days,
Where laughter paved the winding ways.
There was a boy, just first grade small,
His laughter
Purpose? Purpose.
byAlways the painter,
never the muse
Always the poet,
never the poem
Always the well,
never the water
Always the heart,
never the blood
Always the palette,
never the paint
Always the clouds,
never
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Snow
by agedNo breath of wind no gleam of sun
still the white snow whirls softly down,
Twig and bough and blade and thorn
all in an icy quiet form,
whispering, rustling through the air
on still
Five Ways how Christmas Can be Shared
by agedSleigh bells ring,
the moon illuminates the sky and glows.
The air is filled with joy and happiness,
everywhere someone goes.
No matter if it’s a town or village,
no matter if it’s a city or
Do You Know What It Is?
by agedAm! Nam! Nam!
Eating cookies, drinking milk
Distributing gifts while sitting on a sleigh,
And guiding the reindeers swiftly,
Decorating Christmas trees,
With ornaments and hanging stockings,
Sitting cosily by the fire,
And