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JOSIE'S POEMS
 
Poems for Secondary and
 High School Young People

By Josie Whitehead

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NOTE:  There are lots more poems for young people  in every single index.  
 

REFUGE is my poem for National Poetry Day - 5 October.
I have tried to put myself into the shoes of those who seek refuge.  There is a big difference between a refugee and an immigrant, as you will know full well.

. . . and think about making your own mark in our world on International Dot Day - or any other day in fact:  Here is a poem to put fuel in your tank:  International Dot Day

Advancing the Oval Ball
Advent - A Season of Waiting
Affairs of the Heart
All in the Name of Poetry
And When Autumn Returns
Anger - A Simile Poem
Big Bad Maggie
Be a Football Star
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Body Image
Brand New Year (The)
Bride Named Spring (The)
By Heart
By Tube   
By Firelight  
Called to be Disciples
Can't Spell, Won't Spell
Carve Your Name in Kindness
Change - A Simile Poem
Change Starts With Me 
Change Starts With Us
Choice is Always Yours (The)
Clock of Life (The)
Consider Earth's Fate
Consider the Lilies
Cultural Diversity is Worth 
      Recognition
Dare to be Different
Daredevil Dexterity
Date With Death (A) 
Day of the Exam (The)
Death Sentence (The)
Don't Dwell on the Negatives
Don't Give Up 
Don't Let Our World Die
Don't Shed a Tear
Dragonflies and Damselflies
Eye Speak 
Faith, Hope and Love
Family of Man (The)
Far From Our Coral Home
Flower of the Eternal Sleep
Flutter of Time (A)
Forgiveness Matters
Freedom 
Friend is for Life (A)
Friends Never Part 
From Nursery Rhymes to Psalms
Giant Patchwork of This World (The)
God, Save Me From them All
Golf Crazy
Happiness Door (The)
Have You Ever Met Trouble?
Heroes and Heroines
Hidden Interior (A)
Homelessness
Hope
Hope - Acrostic Poem
I Am . . . 
I Am the Window on Your World
I Have a Dream -
     (Martin Luther King)
I Stood Beside You
If You Could Only Change One  Thing
I'll Walk Along This Beach Again
I'm Not a Puppet on Your Strings

I'm Not Much Good at Cheating
Importance of Sleep (The)
Importance of Stones (The)
In a Land Far Away
Infinite Wisdom
International Dot Day
It's Hope that Puts Wind in Your Sails
It's in Your Court
It's June
It's SO Cool to Say 'No'  
It's Your Choice
Joy of Snowboarding (The) 
King of My Garden
King of the Roost
Lamentation on Life's Shortness
Let There Be Light
Let Magic Happen
Let's Celebrate Diversity
Let's Make a Noise About Bullying
Loneliness
Look at Our World
Man's Inhumanity to Man
Master of Display
Mighty Monster (The)
Mighty River (The)
Mindset
Mirror's Clear and Truthful (The)
Mister B
Motivation Matters
Mr Sanctimonious
My Dream
Nature's Gift of Water
New Dawn
Night and Day - A Metaphor Poem
North Wind (The)
Ode to the Bluebells
Oh Wicked Wind
Olympic Swimmer (The)
On Doing Your Best 
On the Ball 
On the Sea of Life
Oxygen
Parent Power
People Against Plastic
Perfect Beau (The)
Perform Your Poem With Pride
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Poetry in Motion 
Poet's Lament (The)
Poet's Pantry (The)
Poet's Pantry (The) - - 2
Pompous Percy
Pour It Into a Poem, Dear
Pride Comes Before a Fall
Queen of the Night 
Rain - A Simile Poem
Really Posh New Loos
Reach Out
Refuge
Retail Therapy
Riding the Rough Rollers
Riddeling Siddeling 
Rhythm Rhythm Rhythm
Save Our Jungle Please
Sail Your Psychic Seas 
Searching for the . . . . . . . 
Season of Fruitfulness
Seeds of Doubt 

Send Me a Dream
Shall I Compare Thee to a Winter's Night?
She   
Slavery    
Slow Train to Mediocrity (The)   
Small Voices 
So Silently They Fall
Softly - an adverb poem
Someone Smiled at Me 
Something and Nothing
Son of Man
Sonnet for Sons and Daughters
Sound of the City (The)
Stars 
Stones
Story of Saint Patrick (The)
Stream of Life (The)
Sundown
Swat the Lot
Sweet Dancer
Sweet is the Freshness of the Breeze
Symphony of Summer 
Teenage Bedroom (The) 
Thank You for This Moment in Time
They Call Me Mr Handsome
Those Distant Hills
Through Storms of Life
Through the Narrow Gate
Tidiness is Next to Godliness
Time
Time to Go
Time to Let the Summer Go 
Tips for Tennis
Tomorrow's Success
Tomorrow's World  
Tread Carefully
Tripping the Light Fantastic
True Beauty 
Truth
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Two Worlds
Upon Man's Warring Tide
Veil (The)
Vision
A Visit to York
Wasting My Valuable Time
Walk Through My Lifetime
Wear a Tie, Young Man 
We'll Not Come on Your Tiger Hunt
We're British and We Know It
What Are You Listening To?
What is a Poet?
What Life is This?
What Makes Me What I Am?
When God Created Adam 
     and:  God Created Woman Next
When the Going Gets Tough
Where Freedom Reigns
Where's Your Smile?
Will You Dance a Little Faster
Wind - A Simile Poem
Wind - A Fickle Force (Science Poem)
Winter White Princes
With Mission in Mind
With Vicious Attack 
Wizard of Alderley Edge (The)
Woman, Why Weepest Thou?
Words in a Poem
Writer's Prayer (A)
You Adults of Tomorrow 
You're Somebody Special 
Your Postcode Reveals the Truth





 

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