Here are some of the better poems from my early days as a poet, aged 20 to 25. If I wrote poems like this today I might not be happy with them. Nevertheless I think they have a strength and character of their own and are worth including if only to compare with my later work.

Copyright © Janet Jackson 1986-1990

5 Star
a.m.
An Apricot Tart
Beatles Lie Shattered
Billboard Girl
Cycle
Dark City
Define
Discovery
Doing It Again, 1988
I believed in a love...
I drove to your father's smoke-stale house
I'm the daughter, so I'll get the mortgage...
In Tow
I Want to Climb Inside your TV
I wish I had a place to go...
Like Spacecraft
Lost
March 12
Missing (The dragging hunger)
Night Walk
Observation, Winter 1990
One-dose OD
Snap
Song
Truth Eyes
Untitled girl poem
Wink