Best Literacy Poems
Below are the all-time best Literacy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of literacy poems written by PoetrySoup members
LiteracyWhat is the state of the language?
How should we use the words?
How much can we elaborate
Before we're dismissed as nerds?...
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Categories:
literacy, education,
Form:
Burlesque
Black Poetry DayMy black is majestic my black is smooth
Even when I was banished from public pool
Even if I was portrayed black face fool
I was a raven...
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Categories:
literacy, appreciation, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To InspirationOh sapience of musings, oh savior of poetic art!
How longingly I seek you out to inspire my ballad
When lassitude of the night envelopes my mind
And...
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Categories:
literacy, inspiration, literature, poetry,
Form:
Ode
Library LoveLingering among the stacks
Interval of serenity, a luxury to
Borrow a world, then bring it back
Riches of printed page, once few
Are carried throughout the community
Requiring only...
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Categories:
literacy, appreciation, books, community, together,
Form:
Acrostic
If I Were the PresidentIf I were the president,
in our fatherland, no citizen will be a bastard
and mutual respect, our networking web.
If I were the president
the people will be...
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Categories:
literacy, leadership, patriotic, philosophy, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
Flat Stanley Visits the Skagit ValleyFlat Stanley needed some time off
to have a little fun.
Cassidie thought her grandpa
would be the very one
to show him the sights and glories of
a great...
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Categories:
literacy, flower, daffodils,
Form:
Rhyme
BravoBravo!
His messages are always elaborative.
We converse as if we know each other well.
He is a...
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Categories:
literacy, appreciation, dedication, friend, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
ExposedI’m just an innocent poem
roses are red that kind of stuff
Oh well then are the thorns
male or female or what
Does critical literacy enhance
the fragrance of...
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Categories:
literacy, confusion,
Form:
Political Verse
Simulacrum
A literacy theft of a line or phrase
the facade, simulacrum of a writer
creating a mirror image, deception . . .
...
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Categories:
literacy, how i feel,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
I Died Before My BirthI went to rivers. Rivers asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
I went to oceans. Oceans asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
I...
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Categories:
literacy, humanity, introspection, self,
Form:
Free verse
Purple PoetsWhen I read your poetry
I grow in hope and literacy
I feel to you close
As a pod and green pea
I want to know
What you are...
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Categories:
literacy, appreciation, art, care, education,
Form:
Rhyme
The Land of the BraveDrink the Namibia Countryside
Namibia a West African country, on the Atlantic coast
Namibia’s beauty is wonderfully surreal and alluring,
With endless savannah and bushland
With most...
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Categories:
literacy, addiction, animal, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
Name
Right To EducationRight to Education...
Many people in the world are poor,
Whereas, the richer sections take a tour.
We are blessed to take the best,
But, what about the rest.
Many...
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Categories:
literacy, child abuse, childhood, education,
Form:
Rhyme
What Am IBack in roman times I was called a stylus
I wrote messages and stories on papyrus Writing since Before Christ,
Don't matter what the time is...
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Categories:
literacy, adventure, art, dark, deep,
Form:
Narrative
A School Question“What are we ever going to use this for?”
Students ask every single school day.
So sit back, grab a coffee, get comfortable,
And all the...
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Categories:
literacy, education, teacher, teenage,
Form:
Quatrain