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Third Year Poetry competition

Student Newspaper > May 2010 Edition

Third Year Poetry Competition

Being a Teenager



We come into school every day

The Department of Education are not

Willing to pay

We are only teenagers, but we

Still need money, and when we

Tell the teachers – they think it’s

funny

by Martin O’Brien



It has its highs and its

lows

its digs and its blows

The teachers are preachers

Friends turn away

But the upside is

You don’t have to pay

by Michelle Murphy



It is good to be

A teenager

Because you can do

What you want

SCREAM, SLAM DOORS

Stamp your feet.

You can go on the drink

You can give cheek and

Bull to the Teacher

Get into trouble

All the time

by Julieann Relihan



I’d rather be out on the bog

Footing turf and sitting on a log

Driving my tractor very quick.

All those teachers….

I’d give a kick!

by Raymond Wilmot



Life is so easy

When you are young

When kisses heal boo-boos

And lullabies are sung.

It seemed that life could

Go on for years,

As long as the night

Was there….

by Andrew Nihill



Being a Teenager, it’s not cool

You have to follow

So many rules.

You have to go through good and bad,

But still you try hard to get

What you deserve.

You want to have everything

In life you wish

And you dream of wonders of

Being a Teenager

by Mary Aherne



But when it’s May

We’ll all Fly Away,

Away from this Hell

After the Final Bell.

by Jonathan Casey



TEENAGERS ARE EXPERIMENTAL

Trying everything that comes their way

They don’t have anything sentimental

And always have something cheeky

To say

At the weekends they roar and shout

With a couple of cans of cheap ole stout

by Donal Keane



People think we’re rebellious,

But I think they’re just jealous.

People think we’re lazy,

But I think they’re crazy.

People think school is for you,

But they tend to ignore you.

by Luc White


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