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    On Teenage Angst
    On Teenage Angst
    On Teenage Angst
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    On Teenage Angst

    By Enrique Tapia

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    Your teen years are a very interesting time. You think you know a lot about the world and can decide the best way for your life and the world to be. You look at the little experience you have as enough to take control of you own destiny. Adults all around you continually want to know, what are you going to do with your future, and what are you doing at the moment to get there. However, as a teen you tend to think in the present and not of the future. Often the past comes up to haunt you, but largely teens have a unique perspective on the here and now that we sometimes loose in our later years.
    This collection of poems presents the myriad of emotions, thoughts and feelings experienced and dealt with by one teen. They offer a wonderful insight into the teen mind and stand as a reminder for adults, of all we go through in those years.

    They can also serve to give back to teen readers some understanding of what someone in the same position has gone through so as to not feel so alone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEnrique Tapia
    Release dateAug 4, 2012
    ISBN9781452412047
    On Teenage Angst
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    Enrique Tapia

    Enrique is a 31 year old writer who grew up in the desert town of Phoenix, Arizona. A former geographer, he realized he was not doing what he was meant to. Using Kickstarter he decided to pursue his writing career and gathered support to publish a book. Being a published author has been a dream since he began writing in high school. He currently lives in Maryland with his wife and 3 dogs.

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      On Teenage Angst - Enrique Tapia

      Introduction

      This collection of poems was written by a teenager. Looking back on them now, I have rediscovered what poetry means to me. I amazed myself with how well I was able to express so much emotion, enlightenment and angst in this medium. I am very excited to be able to share them with you.

      My poetry starts with the spark of an idea. Once that happens I select a title, and then begin writing. The poem pours out of me from that spark, guided by its title and my need to communicate that idea. Often, poetry uses the title for the first line of the poem; however, it is not always the case with those in this collection. Instead, the title is the doorway into the poem. Keep this in mind as you read them, and the rest will flow out.

      I have enjoyed this review and reliving of the memories from this time in my life. I am very happy to be sharing them with you. Especially since I am pleased with how well they have turned out. Not all of them are perfect, though, I still feel they are wonderful insights into the teenage mind.

      These poems are largely the same as when I wrote them. I have only made slight edits for clarity. The changes include, adjusting line breaks, punctuation and spelling. I wanted to keep them as intact as possible to preserve the view in which they were written, that of a teenager. Below each one is the date, and sometimes even the time, when they were written. Some of them are missing these dates because I didn’t start adding them until later on, and now I wish I had dated them all.

      Looking back with the knowledge I have now, there are things I would like to change about some of these poems. I could probably rewrite them all until they are perfect. The poem The Connection, in particular, is not as intense as the times called for. I can make more of it now. This poem came out of a serendipitous, life changing

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