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Teen Poetry Collections

• Overview
• Made Me Feel Like There's No World
  • Worry
  • My Life Story
  • If God Were Looking at My Life #2
  • Lying in My Bed at Night, I Think
  • 144 Ways
  • Freedom
  • Missing My Family
  • Grizzly-LifeJacket-Tornado-Dandelion
  • If Meth Wasn't in My Life
  • Stepdad #2
  • Lonely
  • My Stupid Boyfriend
  • Oblivion
  • The White Walls
• Hope, Even If It's Not Your Own
  • Despair
  • I Still Love the Beatles, Though
  • A Good Day / A Bad Day #3
  • Butterfly, Caterpillar, Skunk...
  • Train Tracks
  • Addicted to Bulimia
  • I Wonder How I Am Going to Die
  • It Was Just Ordinary
  • I Wish Flaming Blades
  • I Am a Helpless Boy
  • Deep Inside
  • When I'm Alone
  • If I Were...
• Life Is a Dream with No Bed
  • Happy Birthday
  • My Best Friend Was Murdered
  • Why Are You Blue?
  • We Came from Saudi Arabia
  • The Days I Miss
  • Dear Mom
  • Brother and Sister
  • A Good Day / A Bad Day
  • My Dad #3
  • Dear Family
  • When My Brother Got Shot
  • Nothing Will Bring Me Down
  • Coyote Ridge
  • Family #2
  • Metal on Metal
  • I'm Making a Moving Poem
  • The Thunder Is in the Past
• 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]
• Like a Monkey Skateboarding on a Banana
  • My Life #2
  • You Don't Know Me #2
  • The Feeling That I'm in Control of My Body
  • How I Feel Today
  • You Didn't Believe Me
  • My Life of Colors
  • All the Animals I Will Be
  • Son of Poseidon
  • Funny Memories
  • starless;;;
  • My Dog Marissa
  • Things I Would Say to My 14-Year-Old Mom
  • Leaving Ketron Cottage
• I Am As Angry As a Boomerang
  • Rolling Down on Me
  • Memories #2
  • Cows
  • My Favorite Bird
  • Deep Inside Me
  • Under the Bridge
  • Seizure
  • Kittens and Me
  • Fight to the Death
  • Prosthetics
  • Death Letter
  • Why Am I Angry?
  • My City
  • They Won't Stop
  • What Is Green?
  • I Lost My Way
  • If My Fist Could Speak
  • Teacher
• They Look Like a Heart, They Beat
  • I Hate Them
  • The New Park
  • Inside Me #2
  • Mom Did It with an Alien
  • Upstate New York Boy
  • Dime
  • My Dad #2
  • Feelings of the Rainbow
  • Why I Hate Basketball
  • Coke
  • Feelings
  • Poem to a Girl
  • Perfectionism
• 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]
• I Looked at the Butterflies on the Ceiling
  • Family
  • My Memory Poem
  • My Life Is Like a PS2
  • If Only You Knew
  • What I Think About My Favorite Staff
  • Life on Ketron Cottage
  • My Sumo Cat
  • Cancer Is
  • Baby Blues
  • Not Titled Because
  • Why Me?
  • Mom, The Story
  • Living on the Streets
  • My Mom
  • Going to the Dentist
  • Why I'm Short and Not Tall
  • Conversations with My Eating Disorder
  • Life Like a Cat
• I Miss the Way We Occasionally Got Along
  • You Hurt Me
  • Next Wednesday, 7:30 in the Morning
  • Dear Grandma
  • My Emotions
  • What If Mothers and Fathers
  • Master Duelist
  • Images of My Life
  • Love Me
  • What If?
  • What Makes Me Happy
  • Can You Imagine
• My Passion Leaps Out Toward the World
  • Not Feeling Cared For
  • Numb
  • Maria
  • What I want
  • Through the Window
  • [Richard's Preface]
  • [Ann's Preface]
• I Am a Monster, But a Fairy, Too
  • Love
  • Compact Disc Player
  • My Mother and Drugs
  • To the Labyrinth in My Head
  • My Granny
  • Rotting Corpse
  • Over and Over Again
  • My Ways
• 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]
• A Salty Longing
  • What Happened to Jimmy
  • Where I Come From #2
  • About Life
  • Confusions
  • Anger Poem #3
  • If
  • Pilondial Cyst
  • I Like to Read
  • Salty Longing
  • The Mom With No Fear
  • Deceased
• 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
  • Untitled
  • Why?
  • No More Commitments
  • Why Do People Fall In Love?
  • Early Memories
• Poems by Parents
  • Confinement
  • Lost Path
  • Moments

Teen Collections Overview

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

Pongo has facilitated THOUSANDS of wonderful teen poems that are poignant and surprising and powerful -- and that offer a different perspective on some young people who are in deep distress but also very resilient.

We have samples of several hundred poems here, including poetry from juvenile detention, the state psychiatric hospital for children, and other Pongo sites.

Pongo's 13 published books are represented in the titles to the left, as well as collections of Pongo poetry that are as yet unpublished... (You can buy Pongo books through our bookstore.)