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12th Grade Poems | Examples of 12th Grade Poetry

Start it over
Old yet young, accomplished yet diminished. Regret with anger and pain, life hasn’t started and yet it feels as it has ended before it has begun. Has it ended for the mistakes I made or because I will have to live a life without you. Is life worth living for if you do not exist in mine. Dull...

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Categories: 12th grade, feelings, first
Form: Rhyme
To the moon and back
So far from you yet I reach out like you were right here. Nothing shined brighter than you not even the sun. And as bright as you are I still lost you, yet sparks brought me back to you but when I returned I was too late. You shined so bright you became the moon to...

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Categories: 12th grade, first love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member do not stir up a bunny
Do not stir up the bunnies for if you do you will be fighting their sixty-thousand relatives too They marched against Easter in 1942 If you do not believe it, ask my Uncle Stew He said there is no reason to make one rabbit mad They will bring their relatives, all big, snarly, mean and bad He remembers fighting in the...

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Categories: 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dad's Car Seasoned Well
Summer Funny Limerick Poetry Contest Tania Kitchin The heat of summer in his dad's car The son takes his date to gaze a star Lover's lane shines on so bright Two teenagers groins take flight It was Dad's Chevy's best years by far ...

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Categories: 12th grade, car, dad,
Form: Limerick
Mommy
Mommy by Sylvia Plath (in her voice and style) Mommy, your face was a frostbitten moon, A pale eclipse of warmth I never held. Your hands were glass, and never swooned To touch the fever in which I dwelled. You stitched me shut with lilac thread— Soft on the skin, but poison-fed. A nursery built from iron and ash, Rocking the cradle with a...

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Categories: 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



There are signs in Israel in three languages pointing to the temple in Jerusalem etc
Recently this watch woman, noticed on a couple of Christian pod casts and CBN, Jews are putting up road signs in three different languages, Hebrew, Arabic and English. Tom, of the Watchman River channel compared it to,"the signs that they use to show us the way to state parks but they have no official status yet." What else...

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Categories: 12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
the souless killer dies
he didn’t blink when the light caught his face— just stared like a dog too long in the rain. no prayers, no cries, no family on the concrete bench. he killed for sport, like swatting flies— and still the world made room for him. the guards were tired, the chaplain bored. death smelled like disinfectant and steel. he coughed once. then again. then silence. nobody wept— not even the devil. ...

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Categories: 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
We are out of time because heaven's time keeping clock has been broken
I found this on a You Tube Christian podcast: An elderly woman, when she was 66 years old, became critically sick for two years and was abandoned by all but not by our God! Friends and family members were totally worn out from taking care of her and not because a lack of their compassion. They found...

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Categories: 12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
My Name
I want to buy a wardrobe, And in it I place my name In the top left corner Of its darkest spot. I want to buy a wardrobe And in it put a billion chambers, To keep my name safe From vultures aimed To pounce tiger like And tear it into pieces. I want to hide my name, From the sadistic...

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Categories: 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Lord’s Cry to His People
Behold the time is no longer near; It is now. I have shouted, I have whispered, And still, you do not hear. Let the one with ears listen For when I and My grace depart, There will be no more delay, And salvation shall be bought with blood. Return to Me, O Israel My chosen, My delight. Who is Israel? Not those born of...

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Categories: 12th grade, fate, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Grow
As we grow, we start to green Then they go from more to mean They insist to see things we don't want seen...

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Categories: 12th grade, abuse, women,
Form: Rhyme
Giving in
I wrote something a while ago I was mad that you were back But now I feel myself letting go It's all numb and the anger I lack I am giving in to you again Hold my writes out And let you tie them "Why can't you just figure this out" The thought sparks in my head And stabs through my heart The glass shatters...

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Categories: 12th grade, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Whispers of God
God works in whispers and slight nudges Some choose to blast the music of the world They drown Him out and claim He isn't there They run away from Him tapping softly for attention He follows But not with screams and shouts and shoves He doesn't work like that If only we can learn to quiet our minds and lives to hear His...

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Categories: 12th grade, christian, religion,
Form: Free verse
Ribs
To the body I wish I could see Why oh why can't you be me I wish the work I do in the morning Would show instead of the cautious warning That nothing I do will stay And that layer of fat will remain anyway Clinging relentlessly to my belly and hips Oh how I wish you could see my ribs...

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Categories: 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Toad and Tomato Worm Racket
If you are in no hurry, you can ask the toad to swing by He costs less money than an Uber or Lift said Uncle Cy. I could not believe when I looked out and saw his steed. A tomato caterpillar named Billy, just what I did not need. I had to get to work today, tomorrow would not...

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Categories: 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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