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Famous Sixth Grade Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Sixth Grade poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous sixth grade poems. These examples illustrate what a famous sixth grade poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...lars of
cruelty, sizes Large and X-Large,
memory gnawing it like

a fat dog, are ordinary: Mean Miss
Smigelsky from the sixth grade;
the orthodontist who

slapped you for crying out. Children
frighten us, other people's and
our own. They reflect

the virused figures in which failure
began. We feel accosted by their
vulnerable natures. Each child turns

into a problematic ocean, a mirrored
body growing denser and more
difficult to navigate until

sunlight merel...Read more of this...
by Belieu, Erin



...riend the revolver !

Long live our friend the machine-gun!



 --Israeli terrorist chant





One April morning in the sixth grade, we became, first by

accident and then by premeditation, trout fishing in America

terrorists.

 It came about this way: we were a strange bunch of kids.

 We were always being called in before the principal for

daring and mischievous deeds. The principal was a young

man and a genius in the way he handled us.

 One April mornin...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

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