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Teen Takeover Poem of the Month: April

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Willow Pinkerton

Teen Takeover’s staff will be teaming up with Versify’s Poem of the Month contest. Every month, Teen takeover will have its own Poem of the Month, written by one of our staff members. You can learn more about Versify’s contest … Continue reading →

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Self-Control Poem

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Kristen Shipley

Self control, why do you elude me. Think I understand, then you confuse me. Thought I had you, but I seem to lose thee. You hit unexpectedly and then I bruise, see You are not easy to grasp So hard … Continue reading →

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Teen Takeover Poem of the Month: March

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Madeleine Nesbitt

Teen Takeover’s staff will be teaming up with Versify’s Poem of the Month contest. Every month, Teen takeover will have its own Poem of the Month, written by one of our staff members. You can learn more about Versify’s contest … Continue reading →

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Emily

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Madeleine Nesbitt

Cranberry sunsets are painted across your grave. I still think every flower that sprouts from your plot ought to be the exact shade of your hair. And so, you will stay scarlet with the blood of life for as long … Continue reading →

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Do you act the same way in the sun?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Madeleine Nesbitt

Single tiptoed girls on fingerprints windowsills completely clean and lifeless.   What if you weren’t a little kid? when the sun sets, are you the same? Do you act in the dark as in the light or Are your separate … Continue reading →

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A cold remembrance

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Samantha Dellinger

Teen Takeover writer Willow Pinkerton shares a poem she wrote.

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Fish for Dinner

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Madeleine Nesbitt

My beautiful fish. Scale-ene like a triangle different from each side each angle and view brings a different perspective of those glittering scales and the tiny thin fins that wave on its back my beautiful fish you smell horrible right … Continue reading →

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Q of the W: What’s No.1 on your Christmas list?

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Leigh Zaleski

What do you want most this Christmas? Ray Cwiklinski: This Christmas I want the gift of music.  I’ve recently been hearing a lot of good songs by the Clash on the radio, and I’ve had my eye on the Essential … Continue reading →

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Cole/Coal

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Madeleine Nesbitt

Cole Bold big-boy patterns this year in from the speakers worn by the believers my zinging nightmare comes in from the deep mines. Coal like the blackness and the heaviness that is my zinging nightmare come straight off the runways. … Continue reading →

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The Heiress Who Sang the Faeries’ Doom

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Madeleine Nesbitt

In the light of mid-morning, see you the simple light of evening none, and hear you none, the sorrow in the singing, the silent heiress on simple throne.   For the end of the day, and end of all night, … Continue reading →

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