Best 11Th Grade Poems
Below are the all-time best 11Th Grade poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of 11th grade poems written by PoetrySoup members
We Are Not Merely PoetsSome of us are secretive at first. We hide our poetry’s soul self,
gently letting her peep out; sometimes regretting it immediately.
Fearful of critiques from...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
OceanaOceana
Oceana flings her sequined petticoats
Upon the sands as if to toss the seaweed
From the swirling edges
While she dances with the wind
With each turn she...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
What Is Stopping YouWhat is holding you back?
What is stopping you?
What is making you uncomfortable
about asking?
about wanting?
about dreaming?
about wishing?
about expecting?
about planning?
about setting new goals?
about learning new things?
about...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
that tiny spark of hope - POTW"what is this strange place, we find ourselves in
trapped in the open, we are free within"
in the darkest realm of desperation,
we find love and some...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
To My High School Math TeacherThank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!)
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.
Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
What Color Are YouWhat color are you?
You! You! You! You! You! You! I could do this all day. Smirk.
I am not talking about hair color, eye color, or...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Time
Time is not
a ticking clock,
it has
...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Verse
Legion of doomhowling black wolves complain to new moon,
of devastation wrought by creatures!
different from rest in size and shape,
walk on two legs, strange hairless features!
in packs behind...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
A Bullfrog's Croak
Silent as smoke, darkness descends,
as shadows merge and daylight ends.
For summoned by a bullfrog's croak,
darkness descends, silent as smoke.
The moon pools in ebony skies
and...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Quatrain
My Paintings Call My NameMy art delights me, covers my walls.
Smiling, dancing, laughing magical beings.
Reminding me how much I love to choose colors.
Appreciated by no one as much as...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
A Knee-jerk ReactionLove is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit ~ Peter Ustinov
An outpouring of feelings
that surges up from the heart
and splashes...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Never Reached HomeThey are walking! Walking, walking, walking!
Long stretches of walk - hundreds of miles of impossible uncertainty,
in blazing sun, in sweltering, muggy, heat - running away...
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Categories:
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
edges
ebony edges
day depleted of color...
scarlet stained sunset
(Haiku)
July, 23, 2020
Haiku or Senyru Poetry Contest
By: Constance La France...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Haiku
In the Know with VanGoghIn the know
With Van Gogh
You all think you know him
But who channels him?
Who swims in color?
Who has paint on their hands in a perpetual way?
You...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
ImperceptibleSol slowly sinks into the pitch of night,
while cricket chirps join bellowing bullfrogs.
The setting sun colors the edge of light
while woodpeckers drum on old hollow...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Sonnet
Rise UpRise Up
Rise up to the blessing of another day.
To all that awaits you this moment.
To all that will challenge you and enlighten you.
Rise up...
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Categories:
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas Holy FeelingsSanta Claus’s Elves were dancing and singing
Beautiful gifts they were aptly bringing.
Warm fireplace heated the workshop cozy.
Red poinsettia the Christmas posy.
Melodic singing as angels got...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Sonnet
Constance
Constance, my friend, like you, "I am a dreamer,"
treading on "the pathless path" of fate
tending to the "scars on my soul."
"Memories" have you "looking inward,"
writing...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Verse
Wear Only Your Skin
Never apologize for being exactly
...
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Categories:
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Blink Out
Life is a
free fall feeling
face first
into the wind.
You can't predict its
direction
or speed,
so, don't try.
Enjoy
the weightless
sensation
of flight as you fall.
Knowing that someday your
flame...
will simply...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Verse
Grudges do not Work for MeI held a grudge 'til four o'clock
And then I watched TV.
Remembered it at nine.
It very much hurt me.
Took grudge to bed and nurtured it.
Next to...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Green Oasis
I overhear feisty breezes
whispering words of gibberish
amidst the sound of rustling leaves.
Setting the treetops aflutter
they garner secrets from the wind,
decoding subtle sighs and heaves.
Like an...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Verse
A Skim-Milk Sky
Like a damp bath-towel,
a wet mist wraps itself around my shoulders
and my spine shudders at its touch.
A skim-milk sky retains a bluish tinge
as a yellow...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Imagism
Nature's A Wizard
She morphs into a sultry summer's morn
garbed in a cloak of alabaster fog,
gossamer thin and casually worn.
And echoing the croaks of a bullfrog
She starts to...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Sonnet
SUICIDE RIPOSTE
In midst of evading sounds and shadows
Lurks the soulless in search of reasoning
Whilst in the fullness, a youth bud still grows
Yet heard less, seen less,...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Sonnet