School Poems - Examples of all types of school poetry to share and read. This list of school poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Share and read poems by and for students about school or about school life. Whether you are in school or are remembering those glorious days of learning and classroom fun, these written works will tell life's memories. Read
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they are cancelling school rightIt is snowing! It is snowing! It is SNOWING!
Three children I usually have to drag out of bed are heading for the front door.
I say “don’t forget your bookbags! Don’t you want breakfast?”
Mom, it’s SNOWING!...
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Categories:
school, snow,
Form: Narrative
Rush HourI run to my next class with industrious speed, I have to make it before the bell
Damn it, my car broke down the day before the deadline, what the hell
I leap my body through the...
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Categories:
school, anxiety, funny, homework, humor,
Form: Limerick
Classroom Gas-tronomyIn the echoing halls of third grade,
he sits,
a nine-year-old lad,
master of the silent symphony,
the classroom's perpetual farter.
His seat,
a throne of hidden thunder,
each release a stealthy gust,
an unseen hand
that wafts through the air,
invisible yet undeniable.
The girl...
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Categories:
3rd grade, school,
Form: Free verse
The Unsung School Bell
Categories:
school, appreciation, education, growing up,
Form: Ottava rima
Blue Collar, White CollarBlue collar school,
Blue collar play,
Blue collar children,
Blue collar praise,
Blue collar words,
Blue collar phrased,
Blue collar work,
Blue collar pay,
Blue collar union,
Blue collar say,
Blue collar terraced,
Blue collar glazed,
Blue collar town,
Blue collar ways,
Blue collar nights,
Blue collar days,
Blue collar skies,
Blue...
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Categories:
school, children, day, house, night,
Form: Rhyme
SchoolI’d raise my hand.
Waiting and waiting to be called on.
Watching them be chosen one by one.
I can’t cry out.
By the time it’s my turn-
Finally, finally my turn!
I can’t decide if my answer is right,
Or if...
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Categories:
school,
Form: Free verse
offending the art teacher eye rollThe instructions were easy.
Invent and draw a new kind of alien.
My alien was a combination between a rodent and a dragon.
I put a cigarette in its mouth and gave it black teeth.
This offended the art...
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Categories:
middle school,
Form: Light Verse
Raining in SummerSpring is on it's way out,
with warmer days on the horizon.
Summer is a great time of the year,
sleeping in from school ~ hooray.
Splashing fun time at the pool or beach,
to cookouts of BBQ and Ice...
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Categories:
school, beach, food, fun, garden,
Form: Free verse
Old Swimming HoleWas a swimming hole down south
where the bullheads chewed your feet,
Though there's no need to worry
if you didn't go too deep.
There were no steps to...
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Categories:
high school, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ending of school yearAs the school year comes to an ending my son seems to have gained a new energy (which has been hidden ) to wake up early in the mornings to watch YouTube...
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Categories:
school,
Form: Monoku
genevaDuring finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith in plodding persistence.
We were...
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Categories:
boyfriend, humor, love, school,
Form: Free verse
Idealism on StandbyWelcome to our generation,
We hope you enjoy this fantastic nation,
Kids here stand on a quicksand foundation,
And fear their schools are a gunned down station.
When they watch the news near and far,
The horrors they witness leave...
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Categories:
innocence, patriotic, political, school,
Form: Rhyme
Eclipse In life
There are times you see
The visual image of things getting tough.
Friends go and you're left a fish in dry sea
Roads that were straight begin to curve.
You only see the high blue sky
Speaking to you with...
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Categories:
school, inspirational, journey, meaningful, mentor,
Form: Rhyme
UnderstandingGrowing up so very fast
Moments like these are meant to last
A child only moments before
Now her future unsure
A child still is she
A woman she must now be
Childhood becomes distant
Innocence lost in an instant
Into her hands,...
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Categories:
school, encouraging, for teens, growth,
Form: Rhyme
in-comingSomething’s happening, let’s call it sunrise, for now,
and summer vacation in Geneva, in umm.. 10 hours.
My heart-beat is spiking, like a flag or kite flying.
I’m leaving an empty room - making one last pass with...
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Categories:
boyfriend, school, student, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of School Poems
Read wonderful school poetry on the following sub-topics:
back to, bully, first day of, farewell, funny, haiku, high, leaving, life, memories, middle, preschool, primary, rhyme, sunday, teacher,
and more.
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