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School Poems | Examples of School Poetry

School Poems - Examples of all types of school poetry to share and read. This list of school poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Share and read poems by and for students about school or about school life. Whether you are in school or are remembering those glorious days of learning and classroom fun, these written works will tell life's memories. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of school poetry. This list of written works about school is an excellent resource for examples of how to write school poems.
Understanding
Growing up so very fast Moments like these are meant to last A child only moments before Now her future unsure A child still is she A woman she must now be Childhood becomes distant Innocence lost in an instant Into her hands,...Read the rest...
Categories: school, encouraging, for teens, growth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member in-coming
Something’s happening, let’s call it sunrise, for now, and summer vacation in Geneva, in umm.. 10 hours. My heart-beat is spiking, like a flag or kite flying. I’m leaving an empty room - making one last pass with...Read the rest...
Categories: boyfriend, school, student, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Silence - advice from a teacher
Make noise, be loud, bold, let your voice be heard; don’t be a wallflower, we have enough of those already, the world needs leaders; you are soft spoken, don’t let dismissal by others of your quiet tone...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, school, stress, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member protests
If you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties who spend hour after hour talking about anything and everything,...Read the rest...
Categories: school, appreciation, celebration, education, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member twirling
I’m just twirling in the center of my room. I’ve got way too much to do. Has that ever happened to you? I’m assailed, derailed and impaled by indecision. I can’t find my lucky pencil and I have a...Read the rest...
Categories: humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Propitiation
I had lunch with Randy, between classes today. It was a perfect day. The sky was an infinite, capri blue, the wind was stirring the environment, clouds were wispy and on high - in the...Read the rest...
Categories: friendship, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chitter Chatter
Chitter chatter bitter batter I am trying to think Chitter Chatter Can I eat with you? I turn and growl. They leave quickly. Chitter chatter bitter batter Same story as yesterday and the day before Chitter chatter bitter batter Principal who is my boss...Read the rest...
Categories: school, student, teacher,
Form: Narrative
The Last Page
You were like the last page of an old notebook Which I doodled on and scribbled on Torn off So that others couldn’t see it Couldn’t peep in To the place I displayed my soul on A chapter better...Read the rest...
Categories: goodbye, high school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member ads
The school year’s ending. ‘Spring Fling’ is tonight (Saturday) the biggest event (concert) of the year, and next week - final exams. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be a senior in about 2...Read the rest...
Categories: future, humor, places, school,
Form: Free verse
a quest to find myself again
The days were brighter then, When without the slightest effort, I’d succeed in making a good impression. Now it seems no one knows me to be “good”, How will they? I’ve hardly provided any proof I used to swim...Read the rest...
Categories: school, anxiety, depression, desire, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member etiquette
I’m in the residential dining hall with my suitemates Lisa and Sunny. We’re talking about sausages. Why? Because April 30th is ‘National Sausage day.” Someone mentioned that when I complained about the beyond-meat hot dog atrocities they...Read the rest...
Categories: health, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fluff
Fluffy is how I view myself, No sitting around for me on a closet shelf! Teasing me will get you nowhere, ...Read the rest...
Categories: school, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kerckhoff in the Rain
Do mem’ries of the Inverted Fountain Well past midnight with Irene still remain? Do you recall the way from the bus stop To the Kerckhoff Coffee House in the rain? “From the bus stop, start with Lot...Read the rest...
Categories: memory, rain, school,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member then the sun plunged into the sea
My bf works in Geneva, Switzerland. I go to school in New Haven. We Facetime a lot - but it’s not ideal. “I wanted to tell you, that it’s been nice.” I told him somberly. “What...Read the rest...
Categories: school, angst, boyfriend, fear, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Verve
Oh, the 1990's, songs by Seattle grunge, and boy band's romanticism. Daughter was a cheerleader beauty, blonde effervescence. Petite strength, with her smile of enthusiasm, tossed up in adolescent flight.. Friday night varsity football games, roaring bonfire for the Homecoming in October's night of a...Read the rest...
Categories: school, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of School Poems

Read wonderful school poetry on the following sub-topics: back to, bully, first day of, farewell, funny, haiku, high, leaving, life, memories, middle, preschool, primary, rhyme, sunday, teacher, and more.

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