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Teen Poetry Collections

• Overview
• Love is Like All the Colors of the Doors in Juvie
  • Lost
  • The Guy with the Green Eyes
  • Freeze-Framing My Life
  • Without a Family
  • Addicted
  • If I Were an Alien
  • Scrubbing Helplessly
  • Dreams
  • [Preface]
• My Passion Leaps Out Toward the World
  • Not Feeling Cared For
  • Numb
  • Maria
  • What I want
  • Through the Window
  • [Ann's Preface]
• How Tucked in the Corner Was Sadness
  • How Tucked in the Corner
  • Who You Are What You Did
  • The Thoughts in My Head
  • What I want to say
  • I Got Raped
  • The Girl Inside
  • [Richard's Preface]
  • [Martha's Preface]
• Because I Didn't Know the True Meaning of Love
  • Lost Memories
  • Things That Are Broken
  • Ocean, Wall, And Pond
  • I Didn't Like It, But I Did It
  • Loveless
  • Life's Complications
  • Running Away
  • If God Were Looking at My Life
  • [Preface]
• See What Goes On Behind My Masks
  • Untitled
  • Masks
  • Walk One Mile... In My Shoes
  • Kaz
  • This Is Too Much
  • Ecstasy
  • Watercolor Stain
  • She Seems To Shine
  • Come Home, Sista, Come Home
  • My Girlfriend Plays the Guitar
  • [Preface]
• No More Me
  • Abusive Dad
  • My Anger
  • No More Me
  • Pink Flower
  • Crazy World
  • Flying Pig World
  • About My Sister
  • Take One
  • People Who Die In My Life
  • My Closet
  • [Dr. Storck's Forward]
  • [Richard's Preface]
• I Lost My Sense of Protection
  • I Feel Like A Lion
  • A Perfect Man With A Bitch For A Wife
  • Sense Of Protection
  • When Death Comes Suddenly
  • Letter After A Time
  • I'd Like to Understand
  • [Preface]
• What Every Guy Tells Me
  • What Every Guy Tells Me
  • Mommy's Angel & Daddy's Lil' Girl
  • Who Am I?
  • You Wish I Was The Girl I Was
  • The Man Who Couldn’t Cry
  • Parents
• Trapped in the Ghetto & The Other Piece of Me
  • It's What You Dream For
  • Earliest Memories
  • The Other Piece Of Me, My Father
  • Looking For Love
  • Why You Leave Me?
  • Just Another Girl
• I Can't Imagine Myself Any Other Place
  • Childhood Dreams
  • A Dream Of Father, A Broken Heart
  • After My Sisters Were Kidnapped
  • The Battle Between Good And Evil
  • Stepdad
  • Why Is It Hard to Leave a Violent Situation?
• The House on the Corner 2
  • No One Gives
  • Jumbled Pictures
  • Confused in My Words
  • This Time
  • To Whom It May Concern
  • Nuttcase
  • Queer Boy
  • Wish Poem
  • The Priceless Gift... Taken
  • Teens
• The House on the Corner
  • The House On The Corner
  • Me In The Sea
  • Canyon Rage
  • No Love
  • Parents
  • Untitled
  • Why?
  • No More Commitments
  • Why Do People Fall In Love?
  • Early Memories

Teen Collections Overview

Writing by teens in jail, on the streets, leading difficult lives

Pongo has published teen writing in a series of collections that are poignant and surprising and that offer a different perspective on a population that is in deep distress and is also rarely heard. Please read the many samples of teen poetry from each collection! The titles of all 12 collections are to the left, and all are wonderful, but here are a few collections where you might start...

Love Is Like All the Colors of the Doors in Juvie
(a collection from juvenile detention)

No More Me
(a collection from a state psychiatric hospital)

House on the Corner
(a collection from a center for homeless youth)

See What Goes On Behind My Masks
(a collection from a center for LGBT youth [many homeless])