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Best Alum Poems

Below are the all-time best Alum poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of alum poems written by PoetrySoup members


Ah, Alum Creek
Ah, Alum Creek
A place I love to go

In the summer for a picnic
Or a jet ski talent show

The kids can run and play
Covered in sand...

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Categories: alum, childhood, dedication, happiness, places,
Form: I do not know?



The Coach
THE COACH
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

 
Went to an alumni meeting last week
 Looking for solace, the outlook was bleak
We lost a game we should have won
A...

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Categories: alum, allegory, angst, culture, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member travel light -
Her small angelic face ...

Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into...

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Categories: alum, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Water
WATER
       
          Land mass of Earth is too small to...

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Categories: alum, water,
Form: Light Verse
Cruisin'
Lost in my head, where'd I get my point of view?
parents? friends? the news? muse's interviews?
The more places I go the more I'm confused 
About...

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Categories: alum, allusion, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme



A Fantasy Over Rides Reality
Hello?
I like to get six + 9 ??Are you??????
schlepping writer,?? natural body and laid-back vibe?? 
I'm all about therapeutic touch via nuts and life of bee dogged...

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Categories: alum, beauty, creation, desire, fantasy,
Form: Romanticism
Old Man Winter Gives a One Two Punch
overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
     would make...

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Categories: alum, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because...

(this endeavor more self directed to progeny,
whose psyche wounded, strafed, and nicked.)

Incumbent upon me own
     purring impetus,...

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Categories: alum, 11th grade, farewell, father,
Form: Elegy
Ginger Garden
Sweet ginger garden
red and yellow pods gleamer
Ripples alum light...

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© Mabel Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alum, nature,
Form: Haiku
Just In Case You Wondered
Just in case you wondered...

Yours truly, (i.e. I) quickly
became hypnagogic afore
subsequently segueing soundly
into autohypnosis booklore,
while binge reading courtesy

regarding aptitude chore
treasure trove books galore
five dollars as...

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Categories: alum, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Mhs Class of '77 Chapter One
Re: Thank You to unknown 
   tom, dick, harry, tam, dame, 
   or dana from the MHS Class of 77, 
...

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Categories: alum, books, change, courage, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hourglass
[A tribute I wrote/rapped after I graduated high school]

i took a bittersweet look into the past
flipping it and watching each grain fall back down that...

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© Ryan Nash  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alum, friendship, inspirational, song-teenme, me,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Pickle Party On Display
Ladies and gentlemen, and all the rest
We do entertain you to the fullest
As pickle members of well-being zest
Showing functional roles for healthy quest
Making us thank...

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Categories: alum, appreciation, blessing, christian, food,
Form: Light Verse
Ah Nothing Spells Spring Like Snow
seems like ole man winter
     aint finished doing business
whereat get dem self up
     in fine fetters and...

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Categories: alum, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Class of 1973 and 1974-
3 long years ago;
I first entered these, marble walls;
Now with glory and honor pride;
Invested in me we go down in history;

Alum, alum, alumni;
Who am I,...

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Categories: alum, analogy, appreciation, encouraging, words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things