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Best Chalkboard Poems

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


The Empty Academy Schoolhouse
The Empty Academy Schoolhouse

It stands on a vast green lot,
No trees to shelter it from heavy, gray clouds
on the rolling foothill horizon.
Its thin coat of...

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Categories: chalkboard, history, nostalgia, school,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Happy Birthday
Mrs. Hill, who had chastised the children
For laughing so
Rowdily
wildly
she 
saw
They were
Kind children
Who gave from their
Hearts, these brilliant wishes for happiness










Photo Number Two
February 6, 2021
Double Tetractys...

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Categories: chalkboard, birthday, children, school,
Form: Tetractys
Black and Unapologetic
I am not sorry for my brown skin , a magical mix of honey , gold , and the perfect hue of melanin 

 I...

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Categories: chalkboard, beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse
The Mad Hatter
Multiple choices with one last try, amid this myriads maze

Someone very dear unto myself asked me the other day

"Is the sun shining where you are?"

So...

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Categories: chalkboard, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form: I do not know?
Haiku Against the Chalk Board
fingernails
against the chalkboard
-my grinding teeth...

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Categories: chalkboard, bangla, sound,
Form: Haiku



Only the Back I See
I go to lovely school
teacher teaches me
only the back I see

He writes on chalkboard
words and figures
only shadows I see
He marks my books
red pen black pen
only...

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Categories: chalkboard, education, irony,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Home of the Three R's
We've brought him back again, where in the corners lie
the shadows of his youth, a world that passed on by

I watch him walk the floors,...

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Categories: chalkboard, father, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Something Wicked
pitch black ...
like ink ... or drowning in oil
only she could breathe
barely ...
heart thrumming in her ears like tympani
it was all she could hear
thankfully ...
she...

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Categories: chalkboard, halloween, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Erase Me

Chalkboard solitude eats at my mind
My fingers leave scars in the written words
And behind me a herd of sheep cries out
As the remaining words run...

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Categories: chalkboard, conflict, dark, depression, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Drifting Darkly
Falling through pompous poems, spiraling
Slippery sinking, rhyming rolling
In down directions, foreign for me
Cascading in chalkboard screechy sounds
Hanging by nails that can catch and clasp
Clinging to...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chalkboard, dark, dream, hope, poems,
Form: Free verse
Pass the Chalk
night's sky
resembles
a chalkboard
and i wish
i could
erase the clouds
and draw you 
next to me...

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Categories: chalkboard, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Creativity
The bible 
our pure poetry

Divine voice

art -- gallery imagery 
Father’s expanding palettes of time
space infinite – 

shadows of unframed
formless canvas -- man's freedom 
to light,...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chalkboard, christian, creation, imagination, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Letter A
“A”


Red is the colour of what I see
Red is the colour of Life
Red is the blood drawn by your Knife
“A” is the Letter of cuts...

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Categories: chalkboard, betrayal, dark, imagery, red,
Form: Free verse
God Forbid
God forbid i ever tell on my friends 
God forbid I ever betray my country men

As aesthetic as the gas-mask
Dressed for work, dressed for success
As...

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Categories: chalkboard, allusion, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leap of Faith
As the man on the roof, took two steps towards the edge, he was unexpectedly stopped by the sound of a bright and familiar voice,...

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Categories: chalkboard, family, growth, jobs, moving
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things