School Prose Poetry Poems

Welcome to the fifty’s diner
Where there are chrome stools
Black, red and white leather seats
A checkered floor

Everything matches
A soda machine is standing ready
The chef is heating...

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"In those days there was no king in Israel:
every man did that which was right in his own eyes."
Bible, Judges 21:25

The word 'Anomie' is new...

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no one noticed an extraordinary white angel
she was the only brightness of the day
but we were not looking out our windows
peach pastel sky had never...

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Guess who I saw today, 
A little girl!
When I saw her, I smiled because I remembered you,
I remembered you, my younger me.

I was told that...

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Music came out of my fingers
made me dance all over the wall
My parents were askance
For I was a newborn from a small town

I was tapping...

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I rushed into my friend’s office once not realizing she had a guest.
She said “This is Dr. Pat McClintock.”
Dr. Pat McClintock said “You are a...

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Sweet corn has been harvested, garden picked clean
Breezy mornings now, ruffling the cat’s fur
Front porch stocked with pumpkins and gourds
School is starting, new clothes are...

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Oh, the beauty of the BELLS of my life.
First, there were the SCHOOL BELLS.
Great sounding BELLS recessing me;
Sad sounding BELLS returning me;
Guiding BELLS directing me...

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When I leave this clinic I must drive north
Not south
South goes past a high school
Which will be letting out upon my arrival

All I need is...

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A hurtful event occuring 
Covering all of the land.
Outside when I opened my eyes I saw nature crumbling 
Crumbling down as the sun sets.
The wind...

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The teacher was trying to figure it out
She was brand new, and optimistic
Fresh and ready to educate her first graders.
She had prepared all summer and...

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Administrators want us teachers to record anything physical that happens
This is a grade school, so a lot of physical things go down.
Throwing, hitting, punching, kicking...

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Most, already, are too far gone along the way of the quest, even to recognize what may underlie the formulation of a question, and I...

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Hello. I was born after the Civil War and met my fate after much civil unrest. You may have never encountered me, but some things...

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the child is six, and sharp
I knew this when he said “that looks like a DNA tester.”
What is a DNA tester? I asked.
“You know. You...

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