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Since 1998 The Poetry Zone has published around 30,000 poems by young people and has had millions of visitors – children and teenagers, real live poets and other adults – who want to check us out, especially teachers who use the Poetry Zone as a fun way of teaching poetry in their schools.

NOTE TO SCHOOLS SENDING POEMS. I’m very happy for schools to send us poems. But I do edit all poems – in the same way that poems would be edited in a book. This does take time – and so I would ask schools to limit the number of poems sent. If a school sends, say, 30 poems – one from every class member – I may have to choose a selection to appear in the Poetry Zone. Schools may, however, send as many poems as they would like for competitions..

Poo Poo Poo! Rude poems can be very funny but be warned – if you send us poems about farts, bottoms or poo they won’t be appearing in the Poetry Zone. So please stop sending us rude poems. 

And do please remember that all the poems you send should be your own original work. Meanwhile keep writing and sending us poems. We love to read them. Be careful and stay safe

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It’s Christmas Poem Time!

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Latest Poems

Christmas

by Abhrajit Ganguly aged 11

A valley was full of cream
The people there made the world not lonesome
It was very beautiful
There was a chocolate factory named “Dolittle “.
It was a season very cold
Mr. Marino was

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Fleeting

by Macie Gaffney

My life flickers like a burning candle
I believe I am that very candle
The strongest at its youth but my radiance grows weaker
the longer my flame persists
Simply, I am lit for the sole

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A Grave

by Abhrajit Ganguly aged 11

A grave
Filled with tears.
It can’t be saved;
In the loop, you have fears.

A ghost continues dying,
A world which carries death,
A whip flying—
The whip is very painful, and it’s

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