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Premium Member The Absentee Student Takes His Test
He’s never heard one lesson of this class,
but has to get a grade in history.
So he’s shown up at last, sure he will pass
the test...

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Categories: student, school,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Trill of the Lithium-Laced Lyrist

Law, English, business, and so on—
    alas, are tiresome!
All the professors here go on 
    with a prime axiom....

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Categories: humor, rap, satire, student,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Silence Is Broken
I stand at the front of the exam hall, which is in total silence.
Grey desks stretch out in neat rows   - 
they remind...

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Categories: student, high school, humorous, silence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member How Do You Write Poetry
Brick by brick you build your house
   To get married, go find a spouse
Step by step, toddlers start to walk
   Sound...

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Categories: poetry, student, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Golf Lesson
Over fifty years have passed,
Tho’ it seems like just the other day;
My father gave me golf clubs,
“It’s a game you need to learn to play.”

He...

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Categories: student, character, childhood, dad, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Actions Speak Louder Than Words


Actions versus words
Actions speak louder
Louder is figurative
Louder is expressive
Figurative language is effective
Figurative does not truly speak
Effective is deeply important
Effective is walking...

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Categories: student, teacher, words,
Form: List



Iq Test
I could care less about the four 
corners of insults, 
That intelligence invites; 
It is always the first straw of 
grass that’s grows, 
which reveals...

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Categories: student, allegory, childhood, children, courage,
Form: Free verse
Ana
She writes her songs and her poems,
not one person know 'em.
She listens to the sound of her music,
she's stuck to it like a tick.

If someone...

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© Ana Jusino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: student, analogy, beautiful, beauty, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Future
Walking forward but still in the same place.

Moving quickly but still stuck in a small space.


Success seems so close but something I never taste.

Time continues...

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Categories: student, depression, education, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Education's Who We Are
Our Education's Who We Are
By Franklin Price
8/2/2016


Our education's who we are
And in what we do believe
How we deal with our emotions
How we give and we...

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Categories: education, student, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Teach Me
Wooden half-desk folded down into place
Textbook open, pencil poised
Einstein poster on the wall observing
Equations flying across the blackboard
Cumulonimbus clouds of chalk dust 
Float across the...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: student, first love, love, school,
Form: Free verse
Polly
A nobody 
Scared by the sound of his own voice
Following the girl home from school
In his mind this is normal
Stalking girls
He grabs her jacket
Pulling her...

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Categories: student, absence, abuse, addiction, angel,
Form: Lyric
Madison
She's broken.
She just wanted her thoughts to be spoken.
For her words to mean something,
For her words to be affecting.

But she feels worthless.
Her dream was to...

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© Ana Jusino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: student, beauty, best friend, change,
Form: Rhyme
Learning Time
Wonder, wander, list and lust
   to learn anew until you bust.
Read, search, question and look
   for paths you thought you never...

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Categories: age, student,
Form:
Oh These Exams
wat to write wat to say..
feeling noise not to explain.......

tired of being someones always......
want to be myself for once....
in these days.....

getting busy lots of work.....
...

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Categories: student,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs