Teen Poems for Free
by Nicholas Gordon

Poems for teenagers, teen poetry, free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.
All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon. For stories for teens, click on Teen Stories for Free.

Being a Teenager

• Being a Kid Is Tough
• Eighteen
• Eighteen2
• Eighteen3
• Fie on These Earthlings
• Fifteen's Neither Child nor Adult
• For You Life Ought to Be a Silver Dancer
• Nineteen Is a Moment for Reflection
• No More Favors, Please!
• Seventeen
• Seventeen2
• Seventeen3
• Seventeen Is Such a Lovely Age
• Sing of Dreams, Those Blueprints of the Future
• Sixteen
• Sweet Sixteens Are Harbingers of Grace
• Thirteen
• Thirteen2
• To Be Thirteen Is to Be, Well, a Teen
• You Think, Perhaps, that You Will Live Forever

Child Abuse

• Evil Has No Easy Explanation
• I Hate You, Dad, for What You Did
• The Pain Will Never Go Away

Death

• Can't You See? Don't You Care
• Frosty Died Last December
• Lee Beaumont Died at Fifteen
• Life Is Beautiful, My Child
• One Night I Saw Aaron
• The Night I Tried to Kill Myself
• There's No Understanding What You Did
• To a Stillborn Sister
• We Are Not Your Children

Family

• A Father and a Dad Are Not the Same
• Caitlynn
• Cousins Are Our Siblings Once Removed
• Dear Mother, Please Don't Take Away My Baby
• Families Are Created Out of Love
• For All That You Have Given Me
• For Me, Two Mothers Aren't One Too Many
• Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over
• I Have You in My Bones
• I Know How Difficult I've Made Your Life
• I Know I Haven't Been an Easy Child
• I Know We Sometimes Argue
• I Love You and I Need You, Even Though
• I Love You and I Never Want to Hurt You
• I Love You Just as Though You Were My Own
• I See You Working Hard for Me
• I Want to Tell You Something You Should Know
• I Wish You Could Have Custody of Me
• I'm Sorry for the Pain I've Given You
• It Took Some Time to Get the Hang of Breathing
• Last June My Parents Got Divorced
• Life Is Changing for Us Now
• Mothers and Daughters
• Mothers and Daughters Ought to Be Friends
• My Mother Loves Her Animals and Me
• Our Mother Is the Sweetest
• Perhaps We'll Never Understand Eachother
• So Far Away, yet We Are Near
• Stepfathers Are No Less than Those of Blood
• Stepmothers in Most Fairy Tales
• Thank You for Loving Me
• Thank You for Loving Us
• The Things You Taught Me I Will Always Know
• There Is No Field as Fertile as Your Love
• There Was a Time Not Long Ago When I
• To Be a Good Father, What Must One Do?
• You Are My Mother and My Friend
• You Are the Rose About to Bloom
• You've Been Everything to Me
• Your Love Is like the Arizona Sun
• Your Say Does Not Derive from What You Say

Friendship

• Every Time I See You I Remember
• I Have a Friend with Benefits
• May Our Friendship Last Forever
• We've Just Been Friends, and Now You're Going
• When I Was Young, I Thought You Hung the Moon
• Why Did You Change

Graduation

• Friends in High School Are Forever Young
• Hail to the Graduate
• I Do Not Wish to Take Your Mother's Place
• I Want to Make It to My Graduation
• To the Graduate, No More a Child

Love

• A Girlfriend's Neither Gotten nor Forgotten
• A Teenage Girl's First Crush
• Desiree
• Do Not Love Me Yet
• Do You Want Me? What's the Matter?
• Eighty-Six Must Be Our Secret Number
• First Love Is like Playing with Fire
• How Can I Have a Fight with My Best Friend
• How Often when Two People Fall in Love
• I Do Not Know You Well, But What I Know
• I Do Not Want This Poem to Go Too Deep
• I Don't Expect You Soon to Love Me
• I Don't Know How We Get into These Fights
• I Don't Know Why My Feelings Are So Strong
• I Don't Want to Be Coy
• I Guess You Just Don't Know How Much It Hurts
• I Have a Monster Crush on You
• I Know I Didn't Do So Well
• I Know Well I Have No Right to Love You
• I Love Them Both, Can't Have Them Both
• I Love You & Etc.
• I Love You, but I'm Not in Love with You
• I Miss You, Though I'm Not Quite Sure I Love You
• I Promise You My Innocence
• I Want to Help You Fly
• I Want You, but I Don't Want You to Know
• I'm Not Your Parent, nor Are You My Slave
• I'm Sorry for the Way I Say I Love You
• If You Loved Me, You'd Be There for Me
• Is One Month an Anniversary?
• It's Amazing How I Feel When I'm Around You
• Katie and Brant Have a Middle-School Crush
• Let Me Steal You from the One You Love
• My Love for You Is like the Surging Sea
• My Love for You Is Something I'm Afraid of
• My Mood Is like a Cloudy Noon
• One Alone Cannot Make Two
• Perhaps It's Far Too Early to Reveal
• Romeo and Juliet
• Saying What I'm Now About to Say
• The Roll Books of the Stars
• The Summer Is a Desert Between Mountains
• This Is the First Time I Have Ever Loved
• To Ask You to Be My Valentine
• We Went Too Far Too Fast, and Yet
• We've Been Dating Now More than a Year
• What Happens when the Girl You've Always Wanted
• What Is the Sign of Love That Tells Me When
• When We Say I Love You
• When You Said, "I Love You"
• You Cannot Now but Be Afraid
• You Wrote Your Name upon Her Thigh
• Young and Lovely, Strong and Sane

Philosophy and Psychology

• Become the Person That You Want to Be
• Before One Reads the Torah
• Chris's Death, like Everyone's
• Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror
• Gold Is Not the Only Buried Treasure
• I Doubt You'll Write This Poem for Me
• I Made Myself Up
• Perhaps You Think You Never Will Recover
• Singing at the Center of Your Soul
• The Road Ahead Is like the Road Behind
• There Are Times the Sea Is Sullen Rage
• There Are Times when Life Yields Little Pleasure
• There Is No Life Without Its Share of Pain
• Those Who Truly Do Not Know
• Time Tends to Make the Biggest Problems Small

School

• Cheating Is a Crime Against Oneself
• Coaches Must Be Mentors, Friends, and Goals
• Teachers Dwell in Some Far-Distant Heaven
• Teachers Flow like Mountain Streams
• Teachers Teach What They Will Never Know
• Thank You for Being Simply the Best
• Thank You for Being Such a Good Friend
• Thank You for Opening a Door for Me
• You're the Person That I Most Admire

Social Issues

• Foster Children Move from Place to Place
• Society Is You and Me
• What's the Meaning of a Park
• Where Have You Gone, My Bobby, My Boy

Please direct all email correspondence to [email protected].
Please direct all correspondence by mail to
Nicholas Gordon, P.O. Box 3043, Fort Lee, NJ 07024.

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