Conversation With My Thirteen-Year-Old Self

A collection of auto-biographical poetry.

Stories in this set

"Verboten"

Submitted on April 15, 2010 - 09:45 | 661 reads

A Home-coming

Submitted on December 28, 2010 - 18:59 | 461 reads

A Study in South Street

Submitted on November 6, 2011 - 15:48 | 246 reads

Abomination

Submitted on September 14, 2009 - 14:37 | 886 reads

Acceptance

Submitted on December 6, 2008 - 10:06 | 1030 reads

After You

Submitted on November 17, 2010 - 10:57 | 656 reads

Aftermath

Submitted on July 2, 2009 - 18:41 | 777 reads

An Insomniac's Dawn

Submitted on March 8, 2010 - 15:57 | 783 reads

Anniversary

Submitted on November 12, 2010 - 01:30 | 472 reads

Anticipation

Submitted on August 19, 2009 - 09:48 | 785 reads

Block

Submitted on February 15, 2010 - 14:04 | 684 reads

Blossoming

Submitted on August 4, 2009 - 10:21 | 1054 reads

Captive

Submitted on March 15, 2010 - 10:55 | 696 reads

Clean Slate

Submitted on January 19, 2010 - 16:58 | 629 reads

Coming Home

Submitted on December 19, 2010 - 15:57 | 456 reads

Conversation With My Thirteen-Year-Old Self

Submitted on November 6, 2008 - 09:28 | 966 reads

Diminuendo

Submitted on July 7, 2009 - 19:22 | 958 reads

Dream

Submitted on December 27, 2009 - 21:17 | 766 reads

Dreaming Spires

Submitted on February 8, 2010 - 15:42 | 780 reads

First Letter Home

Submitted on October 5, 2010 - 12:45 | 508 reads

First Snow

Submitted on November 30, 2010 - 10:18 | 486 reads

Flashbacks

Submitted on September 7, 2008 - 09:18 | 965 reads

Foreign Country

Submitted on October 17, 2010 - 17:00 | 618 reads

Friendly Fire

Submitted on February 26, 2009 - 11:21 | 1124 reads

Full Stop.

Submitted on December 9, 2010 - 16:54 | 504 reads

Hall of Mirrors (Durham Ramblings)

Submitted on November 7, 2010 - 14:39 | 434 reads

Hide and Seek

Submitted on February 21, 2011 - 16:44 | 588 reads

Homesickness

Submitted on January 6, 2011 - 23:31 | 447 reads

I read Bukowski and Neruda in the early hours

Submitted on January 22, 2012 - 15:33 | 394 reads

I Remember

Submitted on June 23, 2009 - 17:55 | 786 reads

Infatuation

Submitted on July 22, 2008 - 10:34 | 1039 reads

Inner Demons

Submitted on January 25, 2010 - 15:34 | 754 reads

Insomnia

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:54 | 1026 reads

Libra

Submitted on June 21, 2010 - 10:41 | 600 reads

Lindsay

Submitted on June 9, 2011 - 18:26 | 347 reads

Losing It

Submitted on January 5, 2010 - 12:42 | 761 reads

Lucid Dreams In Moscow

Submitted on May 26, 2010 - 15:30 | 639 reads

Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Submitted on March 7, 2011 - 13:02 | 573 reads

Misanthropist isn't in my predictive text.

Submitted on November 29, 2011 - 16:42 | 353 reads

On Turning Twenty

Submitted on October 7, 2011 - 15:28 | 304 reads

Pear-Shaped

Submitted on October 6, 2008 - 20:45 | 970 reads

Perpendicular

Submitted on September 9, 2009 - 14:04 | 1007 reads

Peter Pan Poems

Submitted on January 26, 2009 - 15:30 | 3187 reads

Post-Trauma

Submitted on February 1, 2010 - 16:29 | 855 reads

Postscript

Submitted on January 20, 2011 - 12:05 | 519 reads

Pour A Little Salt, We Were Never Here

Submitted on October 20, 2011 - 17:16 | 325 reads

Quarter to Zero Hour

Submitted on May 7, 2009 - 16:34 | 972 reads

Rain in July

Submitted on August 20, 2008 - 11:01 | 990 reads

Reading at the Lowe Library

Submitted on March 22, 2011 - 18:19 | 531 reads

Resolutions

Submitted on January 19, 2009 - 15:58 | 861 reads

Seventeen Going On Twenty-Five

Submitted on February 12, 2009 - 15:44 | 1087 reads

Simon Armitage at the Gala Theatre

Submitted on October 24, 2010 - 18:14 | 584 reads

Smoking in the Bath (A Pantoum)

Submitted on January 27, 2012 - 14:48 | 246 reads

Something to Say

Submitted on July 29, 2009 - 14:44 | 800 reads

Star Struck

Submitted on July 2, 2008 - 13:41 | 1043 reads

Thank God I Didn’t Inherit My Father’s Nose

Submitted on November 22, 2011 - 16:59 | 301 reads

The Last Liberal Democrat

Submitted on December 12, 2011 - 15:15 | 282 reads

The Muse Transplant

Submitted on December 10, 2009 - 15:14 | 805 reads

The Pianist

Submitted on August 22, 2008 - 11:50 | 1061 reads

The Prodigals

Submitted on April 27, 2010 - 17:43 | 684 reads

The Underground Is So Mainstream

Submitted on January 8, 2012 - 14:50 | 248 reads

This Poet's Hands

Submitted on March 30, 2009 - 20:33 | 837 reads

Tuesday's Child

Submitted on February 23, 2009 - 15:03 | 882 reads

Une Nuit Blanche

Submitted on June 28, 2009 - 12:38 | 1013 reads

Unexpected Intrusions of Beauty

Submitted on September 9, 2011 - 21:02 | 505 reads

Until Spring

Submitted on January 22, 2009 - 16:22 | 862 reads

We're All Mad Here

Submitted on February 28, 2011 - 20:19 | 403 reads

Writing Poetry

Submitted on April 2, 2009 - 11:10 | 858 reads

You Are

Submitted on September 23, 2009 - 20:52 | 874 reads