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Teacher Elegy Poems

These Teacher Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Teacher. These are the best examples of Elegy Teacher poems written by international poets.


An Elegy For a Legend, In Memory of the Inspiration That Was Mehdi Bagheri, My Great Teacher
He is dead. My beloved teacher is gone.
Like the burning sun, with knowledge he shone
A man of letters, he would voice his thoughts 
Costing him...

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Categories: elegy, in memoriam, inspiration, mentor,



Premium Member Failure Is a Great Teacher
Failure is a teacher,
It teaches us to strive,
It brings us closer to our dreams,
It allows us to survive.

It teaches us to be strong,
To never give...

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Categories: 10th grade, 11th grade,

Premium Member Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Cautious adjudication, the gravitas of soft-spoken word.
Your legendary legacy, illustrious and exalted.
Advocate for gender justice, legal insights not always heard.
Yet, your jurisprudence was seldom persuasively...

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Categories: abortion, america, eulogy, farewell,

Premium Member Deep Indigo Mourning
My friend, how did he go so wrong?
Funny and jovial, was he, as happy as one can be.
Then, Paul shot his wife to death, mercilessly,...

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Categories: abuse, christmas, death, memory,

Buried Me Not With the Great
Buried me not with the great 
Of what use could be of such honor 
The great died for a noble course 
But what is of...

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Categories: 10th grade, 11th grade,



More Than a Teacher
Dedicated to the late Ms. Garbus
She could never be thanked enough
For the ways in which she touched our community 

Twisting the tango
As she taught me...

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Categories: appreciation, death, grief,

Premium Member Bruce Walker, Elegy
My teacher died.
   
   His lungs failed him.

He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.

   His lungs are gone.
My grief...

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Categories: death of a friend,

A Tribute To Dr Abdul Kalam
You are great 
Your cotribution to nation is so much
We love you very much
You always teach
We consider it as you preach
Long live your glory!
Your demise...

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Categories: allegory,

Premium Member Tribute
It began with her dear husband Yudi
The first Nathan we'd ever met--
  His friendly smile, his charming wit
  Helped my wife and me...

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Categories: friend, grandmother, love, mother,

Goodbye Mother - Soon a Dozen Years Since Demise
Her cremated ashes scattered to all the four winds
White, powdery and chalk like material
Devoid of any vestigial semblance 
To her once living and vibrant self
That...

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Categories: age, anger, appreciation, cancer,

Owl's Requiem
The rising sun has set.
Night has fallen.
The plow rests,
tillage and toil finished.
The corn ear withers,
but seeds are saved.
The scrolls are opened
event recorded;
the news spread:
"The sun...

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Categories: bereavement, death of a

Elegy For Triangles and Squares
A science teacher (of all people) taught me
that triangles and squares were once in unity
they were lines that cosied together
like a fistful of newly risen...

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Categories: love, philosophy,

The Black Teacher
Even if it rains
in white 
snow,
I will shelter 
my head 
under a black 
umbrella.

For the white 
storm
that 
splattered the 
bones of 
Nehanda and 
Kaguvi,
i will...

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Categories: black african american

Tanya Lowe's Elegy
You gaudy stars do not get giddy when I grieve
Nor wrest through clouds to melt this darkness
That so befits what logics to your destiny weave
For...

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Categories: death, faith, may, stars,

What a Beauty-Full Life
Beauty is in flowers, and the petals
Bathing in the early morning dew

Beauty is in the eyes of a father
When his son takes the first step

Beauty...

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Categories: dedication, faith, inspirational, life,


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