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JOSIE'S POEMS

Poems for Secondary

and High School Young People

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By Josie Whitehead

MAIN POETRY INDEX   

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

Don't write dull, lifeless poetry . . . 

Try:  True Beauty  and Sweet Dancer

Advancing the Oval Ball
Advent - A Season of Waiting
Affairs of the Heart
All in the Name of Poetry
And When Autumn Returns
Body Image
Bride Named Spring (The)
By Heart
By Tube
Carve Your Name in Kindness
Change - A Simile Poem
Change Starts With Me 
Clock of Life (The)
Consider the Lilies
Daredevil Dexterity
Date With Death (A) 
Day of the Exam (The)
Death Sentence (The)
Don't Let Our World Die
Don't Shed a Tear
Eye Speak 
Faith, Hope and Love
Family of Man (The)
Far From Our Coral Home
Flower of the Eternal Sleep
Flutter of Time (A)
Freedom 
Friend is for Life (A)
Friends Never Part 
From Nursery Rhymes to Psalms
Golf Crazy
Heroes and Heroines
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 Much Good at Cheating
Importance of Sleep (The)
Importance of Stones (The)
Infinite Wisdom

It's Good to be Different
It's June
It's SO Smart to say 'No'
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)
Mirror's Clear and Truthful (The)
Motivation Matters
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
On Doing Your Best 
On the Ball 
On the Sea of Life
Oxygen
Parent Power
People Against Plastic 
Poetry in Motion 
Poet's Lament (The)
Poet's Pantry (The)
Pompous Percy
Queen of the Night 
Rain
Riding the Rough Rollers
Riddeling Siddeling 
Rhythm Rhythm Rhythm
Searching for the . . . . . . . 
Season of Fruitfulness
Seeds of Doubt 
Send Me a Dream
Slavery

Slow Train to Mediocrity (The) 
Small Voices 
So Silently They Fall
Softly and other adverb poems
Someone Smiled at Me 
Son of Man
Sonnet for Sons & 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
Those Distant Hills
Through the Narrow Gate
Time
Time to Let the Summer Go 
Tips for Tennis
Tomorrow's World  
Tread Carefully
True Beauty 
Truth
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Two Worlds
Upon Man's Warring Tide
Veil (The)
Vision
Wear a Tie, Young Man 
We'll Not Come on Your Tiger Hunt
We're British and We Know It
When God Created Adam 
     and:  God Created Woman Next
Where Freedom Reigns
Wind - A Fickle Force (Science Poem)
Winter White Princes
Woman, Why Weepest Thou?
Words in a Poem
You Adults of Tomorrow 
You're Somebody Special 
Your Postcode Reveals the Truth