Best Assignments Poems

Be loyal whether things are going your way or not.
Unite with your fellow dwellers
Speak your mind 
After you listen to their views
Take them seriously
You are...

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Tassels are turned, and caps are in the air,
High school ends just like that with a handshake.
This is a day we’ve been waiting to share
But...

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“Writing [maketh] an exact Man,”
claims Francis Bacon. 
Macaulay’s Minutes is our bible.
Derrida emphasizes 
the Primacy of Writing.
Freedom to write is also guaranteed—
by our Indian ...

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College students today are a professor's worst nightmare
   They come to class late, with ripped jeans and purple hair
Without a word of apology...

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I went searching for-
that little child who cuddled in her mother's arms, 
those tender feet that jumped in rain, 
that little heart which melted for...

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As I checked my mail one day as I always do,
In the box was waiting a package with no clue
Of who it was from, from...

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(*This piece may have a limited audience - but don’t ALL my pieces??*)

Some of the best advice from my Fro-Co (seniors who volunteer as freshman...

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Tresa faerie was excited. 
Today was the day assignments were coming out.
She had been in training for six weeks. 
She wondered where she would be...

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Although I am different, although I am bland. 
You still wanted me, you took my hand. 
I think of myself as an observer, I watch...

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At first school was cool
Had to abide by one simple rule
Read and write
And never fight
Recite the alphabet
How easy can it get?
One plus one is two
A...

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Way back then when I was ten
the year was nineteen ninety-three,
Mom was so proud when I said aloud
that I made the school spelling bee.

Days of...

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Cheers to the Teenage Years

Heartbreak and Sorrow, 
The complaining never ends
He never called you back 
And you're fighting with your friends

Partying and Hookups
Bullying and ...

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Tis a lovely day for students are glad 
The last day of the school year is anything but sad
No more assignments to study nor papers...

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Long before dawn
we find
the most incredible
silent energy.
A line of cars
and trailers
packed with
questionable treasures
idle, 
waiting for their
booth assignments.
In the field,
in the light of headlights
hushed merchants
set up...

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Warrior Poet, newest nom de plume for Mark Halliday
An American citizen, gained a taste for living abroad as a LDS missionary.
Retired in 2007 as a...

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