Teen Poetry Collections
- Overview
- There Had to Have Been Someone
- There Had to Have Been
- Memories
- I Like the Rain More than The Sun
- Finding Summer Again
- Every Guy
- When I Look in the Mirror
- Different Levels
- Worries for You
- The First and Last Day I Saw My Dad
- Changing My Life Around
- You Can't Be Mad Forever
- I Wonder
- Doors of Emotion
- Ice Cream Man
- Liquor Makes the World Violent
- The Coolest Dad
- Letter to Mom
- Virginity
- Black
- The Three Faces of My Monster
- Drowning
- Sides of Me
- The Love of My Life
- Monkey
- My Life
- What It's Like to Have a Headache
- [Preface]
- Love is Like All the Colors of the Doors in Juvie
- My Passion Leaps Out Toward the World
- How Tucked in the Corner Was Sadness
- Because I Didn't Know the True Meaning of Love
- See What Goes On Behind My Masks
- No More Me
- I Lost My Sense of Protection
- What Every Guy Tells Me
- Trapped in the Ghetto & The Other Piece of Me
- I Can't Imagine Myself Any Other Place
- The House on the Corner 2
- The House on the Corner
- Poems by Parents
- Special Poem for Pongo's Fans
Confinement
by TanyaIt's hard to see
My son go to jail
Once you've made that
Decision to let him
Go there
You can't get him
Back out
It's total confinement
Not only for the child
But the parent, too
Like being put in a cage
I felt like I was trapped
What he feels
I feel
Only worse
Because he thinks I can save him
When I can't
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