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8th Grade Poems | Examples of 8th Grade Poetry

8th Grade Poems - Examples of all types of 8th grade poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for 8th grade.
Side stiches
Every once I look forward to run, through the wishing well, fishing the money inside for fun. Wish me a shell, please no cell. Like a pearl. Kept in protection, Not isolation, all alone. One time twice, Around he...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade,
Form: Free verse



I wish I helped myself first
They all got a A, I stucked with a C. Could you wait for us? Oh, 5min, they got in. Could you send the homework? He read it out loud.. Do you know what topics we had again? I forgot...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Serious
,,you became serious, it doesn't suit you" The stepping in situations with fully unknown? ,,it's something positive, to just experience and ignore" That I haven't become stubborn? ,,funny jokes, with all getting along" Hurting people till the...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Playing dumb
I know you guys made fun of my different colored ponytails and the uneven line I did to seperate my hair, that creamed my hands full of care, even though my hair sometimes looked like a total...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Captains Suspicions
There are pelican prints on this map the suspicious sea captain said. We all denied seeing a fowl using his desk, for we wanted our heads. He had a cutlass and was not afraid to use it...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lovely Bird is Haughty
Lovely bird wears her lifesaver with a haughty air. The rest of us act like it’s normal and we don’t care. In truth, she is a snob, so we do not let her play. So we are jealous...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Couplet
shipwreck
Shipwrecked  He was Japanese, smiled politely  and took his shoes off I smiled also, it was the right thing for us to do,  shipwrecked sat in a rubber raft of the type leaving Tripoli  Libya, where we murdered Gaddafi and made a mess in...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade, absence, angst,
Form: Blank verse
I wish I can't speak anymore
and not show feelings. Was a sentence ago, what I said quite often times. With starving food with also help. But with starving food I make them happy because I got a figure they always liked. With not showing...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member carrot and cabbage pies
Detroit rabbit couple ride their fish balloon in the Michigan skies They like what they are throwing; there is happiness in their eyes We wonder if they know what they are doing; as they throw out some...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member dont be rude
Grandma Moses was delivered by pterodactyl today We saw her arrive, and we grandkids all yelled hooray Thought you were extinct! We yelled up at the bird. Don’t be rude, said the pterodactyl. So he had the last...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Blessed Jesus
My blessed Jesus, eternal Sovereign One, prayers lifted up in whispers and songs to the Son. I was ruled by sin, yet, in sinner's grief, restoration flowed in. Hosanna to the gentle Lamb of seven horns and eyes, You're the Lion...Read the rest...
Categories: 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sean Combs
If you live inside a glass house then don't throw stones or put cameras in your home when you live like Sean Combs some people got it backwards catch him operating drones filming all their parties should be...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I don't like myself though
I never liked Can't I be Somewhat I guess not? Haven't you heard My name twice? I guess not What have I done Maybe some Some much I am sor-...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Can you listen to my one more time?
When I'll see you at the hallway don't look at me but don't do not look at me. When we do need projects don't talk to me but don't do not talk to me. When I open...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How can she be normal
School teacher with a cup of tea on her chin Tries to look normal said my cousin Finn But how can she? Asked momma with a grin. Normal women do not wear cups of tea on their chin. Maybe...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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