8th Grade Poems | Examples of 8th Grade Poetry

Your presence is unbidden, silent as a sleeping cat, you're cancer. Clothed in robes of despondency, of deep tolling knells. Yet, there's flowering hope of exultation, rising into another star-blessed dawn. You cannot, you will not dampen dreams, they are always created, nurtured from their infancy, delivered into limitless life, so treasured from a child's free mind, as vast, as pristine as the universe. Then, like pure doves they...

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I don't get paid by the hour, I'm employed by a higher power, Blooming like a flower, Opening up to empower, It was never about the dollar, As I shower my world with wisdom, Breaking apart the old system, Abundance comes in with them, Taught to condemn ourselves, We keep dreams on shelves, As we...

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In the dark she composes, Bleek from the mind's whispers. An image in comprehension Cohabiting with the soul's rhythm masking a vocal, So oddly high in pitch, yet a whisper When voiced. Yet at that the cranium watches As enquiries linger at the tip Of her cebrum, for thee Who's not ready for quest shall swim In a cage of self doubt. ...

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Our hard work put in grades To a future that’s printed As people and trades become money that’s minted Our peace slowly lost to a world full and grey With a price tag and cost We sell our souls away ...

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Every minute is a choice I could go to the Dollar store Could get gas Could get my hair cut Could sit in the dog pen with my dogs If I cancel my lunch date with three friends I could get my teeth whitened, Could attend a lecture on Sully Could look for my lost emerald ring Because I am getting lazy And it is...

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We were both called Shorty, me and this new cowpoke Shay. He had a disappointed attitude that could be seen a mile away. I did not like him instantly, he annoyed my organized mind. He was not to my liking or taste, we were not two of a kind. Shay was a loud mouth, thought his jokes were a...

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whispers before they are words dust rising like memory a thought you didn’t think the bird is not the wind but moves as if it remembers being it drift between breath and sky a pause becomes a place I go and go ...

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As time unfolds it's decadent myriads As from an embryo thus born A living pulsating form Bringing in a new era of life The clock strikes an hour Making place for amendment elaborating on trials and perfection Encountering bliss and sometimes sadness As the clouds darken and days change to years Bringing with it toil and struggle The years darken as age becomes...

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Thoughts spring from the fountain, A mountain of choices flowing in. Each a new path to begin, Possibilities splash back in Swimming for the chance to win. Grabbing your attention, Now choose your dimension, Rise to your ascension, The fountain's an extension, Reaching through expression. Sprouting in all directions, Covering every section, There's no need for correction. Thoughts create...

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Beauty fills this dimension, seeking the right intention, An intersection of Divine perfection, awaiting your intervention. Using the words you mention, you build a world from within. Thoughts hold attention, molding into expression. Energy with intention, creates in every dimension. A beautiful invention, a soul on Ascension. Seeking comprehension, cutting through tension, an extension...

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Keep out of the kale and the captain’s keg Lazy light foot like you could lose your leg Miserable moments mastered by minion Meg Never needless, yet not necessary without a doubt Olive Orangutan outrageously opted out Providing persnickety persimmons a playful pout...

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huge hullabaloo in angel town A jumbo jet has landed upside down Where is the queen? We asked. Bring the crown! She arrived minutes later, in a gold brocade gown. Who landed this plane? She asked with a frown. I did, said the handsome pilot, Jack T. Brown Were any hurt? Did any get lost or drown? Of course not, he stated....

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With an ingenuine saccharine la-di-da The hoity toity woman said “hi” to ma A want to be royal, an aristocrat stated poser, false Sheila name of Pat My brother was smitten right away He gave her his best times of day Pat could have been a clock tower shooter He did not see this at all, my brother Tooter She is so refined...

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He zings through tall grasses and lands on my knee I try my best to pull this sticky legged insect off me He chortles and chuckles and pings off in the wind. This hopper of grasses surely has annoyed and sinned. Another one of these pests zings onto my shirt. Giving me the willies, I scream at my cousin Bert Get...

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Eskimo Joe took a liking to Nebraska Flo His bro said, oh, no, not her, no, no, Joe! When Joe was with Flo, they each had a glow Bright as flashing bulbs at a Kansas light show Love for each other continued to grow Joe helped Flo plant, weed, garden, rake and hoe Their romance was fast, it was never slow Flo...

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