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.

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Was it Catastrophic or Soothing?

by Abhrajit Ganguly aged 11

I was hitting the wall
It was my fault
Why?
It’s grey
I want to hit the invisible.
Invitation to the heaven.
Catastrophe
No hope
Or
Soothing?

Entity

by Abhrajit Ganguly aged 11

An unnatural entity
An unnatural death
No sympathy
But god erases all

The death was of a man
Who nobody knew.
The masks were glued to the face and he ran
His name was

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The Nile Crocodile

by Arav Iyer aged 10

If you are brave enough to stand
On the banks of the Nile,
You will be welcomed
By a menacing crocodile with a sinister grin
He’ll silently stalk you down from below,
Waiting for you

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First Poems Read more

Daffodils

by Saskia Chalkley aged 7

Daffodils chilling in the sun
having fun
maybe playing games
or taking selfies –
but will it be such fun
when the humans come?

The Polar Bear

by Swara Suhas aged 7

Rainbow the polar bear
went looking for a friend.

“Will I ever find a friend?”
she wondered

She looked up and down
right and left

She walked and walked
At last, she saw a penguin

Cloudy

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In My Heart

by Aarya Jadhav aged 6

Everybody has times in
Their lives when their hearts are
Full with doubt. But everything
They hoped in their time; every
Thing you hoped could
Happen in your dreams. Everyone
Will have the same

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True Love Read more

Hello: An Ordinary Word

by Aayat Narang aged 14

Hello—it’s such an ordinary word,
Harbouring hundreds of stories unheard,
It’s the beginning of an imperfect friendship,
Or the start of a hating war you can’t skip.

Hello—it’s such an ordinary word,
Yet saying it to

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Friend’s Crush

by Pong Zi Le aged 13

My friend has a crush…
I have to stay up late
just to read her messages ’bout her crush
or else my friend will yap about him at school…
The worse part is,
His class

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Love

by Narla aged 10

Oh stinking love
I should have come above
To join you my dear
I guess I had fear
Oh stinking love
should of come above
Through all these years
I still have tears

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Teenage Read more

Learn from Failure

by Abhinab Borah

Failure comes to teach us,
Not to make us stop.
It shows us our mistakes
And helps us reach the top.
When we fall, we must rise,
And try once more again.
Hard times

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The Cage — Fading Pantoum

by Halah Fatmi

I felt the touch of a serpent, but it was only silver,
a sweep of the stethoscope against my skin.
My lungs gasped as the monitor counted — one, two, three,
everything existed except my life.

A

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What’s Love Again?

by Josh M M

Love, it’s a strange, unpredictable thing,
It brings the heart a brief serenity,
Like promises exchanged within a ring,
Before it blinds us to calamity.

If I must reject this poisoned grace,
The world will be

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Competition Entries Read more

The Change in Christmas

by Olivia Moghrabi aged 12

I remember when I was small(er)
before Christmas,
there would be a tingle,
a thrill in my stomach.
Reindeer dancing around inside me.

I miss that.

I’m only 12,
but already the holiday thrill

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It’s Christmas Time!

by Aaiza Raza aged 14

Its Christmas time!
So laugh and jolly up all the way.
For it’s Christmas time,
Haven’t you heard?
It’s the season of holly and mistletoe,
Cookies and milk.

Presents and stocking filled up to the

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Wish List

by Khaliya Rajan aged 18

Smiles (for my family)
Breaths (for my community)
Heartbeats (for my country)
Poppies (for the world)
Muscle (for me)