September 16, 2020
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is innocence.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
A number poem about the uneasy teenage emergence from innocence into adulthood:
Fifteen's neither
child nor adult,
In between charade and innocence,
Fending off the forces that would shape
Too soon an unremarkable result.
Even when a teen attempts to ape
Essences to which her heart assents,
No draft should be approved without
revolt.
© by Nicholas Gordon
To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/15.html. For more poems about teenagers, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/teenpoems.html.
This week’s theme: Innocence
September 14: Forests Are a Glimpse of Permanence
September 15: There Is in Friendship Just a Bit of Eden
September 16: Fifteen’s Neither Child nor Adult
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