12th Grade Poems - Examples of all types of 12th grade poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Poetry SoupSomeone’s dreams and hopes set afloat,
sail across the poetry soup,
someone else’s tears, loss and heartache,
has just made me weep in my room.
I pen a song and sing it loud,
laugh with a limerick I wrote,
someone out...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Maybe You Should Talk To SomeoneMaybe you should talk to someone
when your thoughts become a maze,
when the silence in your heart
speaks louder than your days.
Maybe you should talk to someone
when dreams feel out of reach,
when the weight of what’s unspoken
robs...
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12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
new lava lampsThe abandoned Mansion was once owned by the Adams Family.
They were doing a terrific business in their lumberyard at the time.
Day laborers who were not busy were sent over to build their home.
It was gorgeous...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
just make a cheeseballJust make a cheese ball my aunt suggested to me last night.
Was she joking? Was she kidding? They never turn out right.
Any idiot can make one, she said, her smile was amazingly bright.
I am an...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
All of you come and worship your King and collectionsLet all you heavenly angels along
With all of you four living creatures
Above come and worship your King
Bow down before him and love
And adore him forever more
All of you who trust in your Lord
All of...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
WHEN SHALL HEAVEN COME DOWN?Is there a God here—
In a land fractured by despair
Where hatred is embraced as a brother?
God is merciful—
Yet how could a God of grace
Dwell in a kingdom of malice?
We all ask
When shall heaven come
To...
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12th grade, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Gemstone Centralamethyst, amber, agate, aquamarine
barite, bauxite, beryl, soon seen
carnelian, chryophrase, cool citrine
diamond, dolomite, delivered by Dean
Emerald, epidite, elusive by far
Flourite flowing next to Feldspar,
Gemstone hit parade, setting the bar
Hematite holds us hostage, said Mar.
Isis calcite showing...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Why would she bring her darlings hereThe neighbor brought her weirdo kids in today.
Why would she? We have nothing kid-like to do or play.
They ran right over to my Christmas tree and said look at this.
One was holding my treasured tiny...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Mardi Gras of Twenty NineteenMardi Gras of twenty nineteen
Was the best parade I have ever seen
If anyone can top it, it will be New Orleans
Where I hope someday to become the Mardi Gras Queen...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
IMPERFECTIONSI know it bothers you—
My relentless pursuit for PERFECTION
And understand this:
I KNOW THAT EVERY HUMAN IS FLAWED;
But tell me, should I allow
My IMPERFECTIONS
Get the better of me?
I refuse keep making the same mistake!...
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12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Image of Him
The Mother Sun no longer embraced me
No more adrenaline rush that motivates me to get up
Breakfast seems bland, faded colors of rotten apple
Unfurled window curtains is the angle that I see
Unheard thoughts of forks lying...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
MOONLESS NIGHTIt's one of those nights
The moon hoards its light
Fireflies taking stage
Lighting life into our gasping breaths.
Stars whispered known secrets
To the cool, quiet breeze
Grass beneath the sheets we lay
Cries for mercy as our act painful.
Our shadows...
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12th grade, night,
Form: Free verse
hey did you see thatOrange gave little Dickens a thumbs up at the table.
Hey! Did you see that? Dickens asked his sister Mable.
Mable refused to look up from her beeping I-phone.
Hey Mom! Dickens said; his sister made him feel...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Couplet
my pretty pink pig petMiddle Fiddle Faddle and a Rah Rah Raw
Bacon is not in my vocabulary sang Rowdy Dah.
I have a gorgeous pet, she is my pretty pig, Pet.
She has never had to wolf down any garbage yet.
Others...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
no one eats the same chili at my houseI fix the best chili I can
But my family has to doctor it up
One of my daughter adds cinnamon
Something she learned
When grandma accidentally used it
Instead of chili powder
My son has to dump a pound of...
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12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
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