10Th Grade Acrostic Poems

Emerging poets 
Need
Their 
Evolving skills
Ratified
In the eyes of their peer’s
Noting what separates
Genius from mediocre talent

Poets
Optimistically 
Enter
Their best
Renditions of the
Year

Counting
On
Nuance and
Technique to
Express
Symbolic
Thoughts
Succinctly


(Acrostic)


Jan. 29, 2019
Word Play Poetry...

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C
A
N
C
E
R

Cancer strikes terror in people.

Awful prognosis, scars a family.

Nasty disease that hurts and kills many.

Children should be immune, but they are not.

Everyone thinks they know,...

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Innocent


In the game of life, filled with sin

Not all will win, some will lose

No one can choose their hand

One learns to play the

Cards dealt by...

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Innocent


In the game of life, filled with sin

Not all will win, some will lose

No one can choose their hand

One learns to play the

Cards dealt by...

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Reach out and splash the face of God

As you free fall from the clouds.

In you quest to quench thirst

Naught can sway your way.

Dance through the...

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I-phones have changed our paradigms
People no longer
Have to talk to each other
Or
Need to form relationships with human beings.
Evolving into an electronic virtual culture,
Suddenly we live...

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Breathtaking beauty blazes the trees,

Each leaf a canvas for nature's brush.

Autumn mixes colors to please 

Unveiling shades that make green leaves flush. 

Tinged yellow, orange,...

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The chill in the breeze 
Has got something Different 
Each flower , each tree
Randomly dancing to their zeal
And then our memories 
Inside my head are...

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Red roses blush scarlet when in your sight

Opening their fragrant hearts to you, as

Meteorites morph into shooting stars, 

And yet...they fail to equal your beauty.

Nightingales...

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 So vivacious you are, 
Purifying and invigorating,
Changing, becoming bewildered, 
With despondent moods perplexing.

Stimulation to cry, urging sadness, 
A misunderstanding with confusion,
Encircling the shattered body...

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When man first gazed at the stars
Or watched Venus outshine Mars
Nothing else seemed to matter,
Damping the background clatter.
Everything was clear to see
Reality cut Man free.
Followed...

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Slippery, sneaky, sickening

Narrow eyes, nasty bite

Avidly avoiding

Killer instinct

Eager to Leave
...

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Thor’s Hammer
Heard Everywhere
Ultra Loud
No One Escapes
Decisively Felt
Eager To Be Heard
Roar Like No Other
...

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June 19, 1865, slavery in the Confederacy ended,
until then, all African Americans where slaves.
Now that the civil war was lost, blacks gained their freedom,
emancipation had...

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Tears in the eyes
When my school began
Willing to go to home back
That time, the only place of heaven
A small child doesn't know much
What are books...

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S	Sorriest type of assessment
T	Two answers always sound right; one is author’s idea of more right.
A	Assumes we have identical life experiences, exposed to same words
N	No one...

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N	Naturally caring.
U	Understanding and Kind.
R	Realistically diagnoses
S	Sees things others miss
E	Enthusiastic about helping people
...

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S-Score goals
O-Offsides
C-Corner kick
C-Curve the ball
E-Excited crowd
R-Running down the field...

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Destruction
Eradicate
Failure
Eliminate
Abolish
Trounce
Expunge
Downfall
...

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DAY
Dr. James E. Martin
During these hours there is much to do,
    Dreams will have to wait.
Anchored securely to this laboring duty,
 ...

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