JOSIE'S POEMS

 

Poems for Secondary

and High School Young People

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By Josie Whitehead

Friends at School

MAIN POETRY INDEX   

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

Advancing the Oval Ball
Advent - A Season of Waiting
Affairs of the Heart
All in the Name of Poetry
And When Autumn Returns
Big Bad Maggie
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Body Image
Bride Named Spring (The)
By Heart
By Tube      
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 the Lilies
Cultural Diversity is Worth 
      Recognition
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
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
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)
Infinite Wisdom
It's Good to be Different
It's Hope that Puts Wind in Your Sails
It's in Your Court
It's June
It's SO Smart 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
On Doing Your Best 
On the Ball 
On the Sea of Life
Oxygen
Parent Power
People Against Plastic 
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
Queen of the Night 
Rain - A Simile Poem
Really Posh New Loos
Riding the Rough Rollers
Riddeling Siddeling 
Rhythm Rhythm Rhythm
Searching for the . . . . . . . 
Season of Fruitfulness
Seeds of Doubt 
Send Me a Dream
She     
Slavery    
 

Slow Train to Mediocrity (The)     
Small Voices 
So Silently They Fall
Softly - an adverb poem
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
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
Wasting My Valuable Time
Wear a Tie, Young Man 
Walk Through My Lifetime
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 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?
Wind - A Fickle Force (Science Poem)
Winter White Princes
With Mission in Mind
With Vicious Attack 
Woman, Why Weepest Thou?
Words in a Poem
You Adults of Tomorrow 
You're Somebody Special 
Your Postcode Reveals the Truth