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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.  

THE JOY OF SNOWBOARDING

and

THE NOCTURNAL PRINCE

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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)

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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

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)

Pompous Percy

Queen of the Night 

Rain

Riding the Rough Rollers

Riddeling Siddeling 

Rhythm Rhythm Rhythm

Searching for . . . . . . . 

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

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

Truth

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Two Worlds

Upon Man's Warring Tide

Veil (The)

Vision

You Adults of Tomorrow 

You're Somebody Special 

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

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