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Best Chalkboards Poems

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


Poems Have Their Verses
Poems have their verses


Blinded by the light
Stood outside to stare
Counting clouds in groups of two
If only you were there

Dreams may come in circles
Rounding out the...

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Categories: chalkboards, love,
Form: Rhyme



No Room For God
A most genius, scientific mind, whom I respect,
with chalkboards full of numbers and symbols;
such mathematical equations and theories
as to boggle the ordinary mind, spoke these...

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Categories: chalkboards, faith, god, science,
Form: Verse
Color Outside the Lines
Color outside the lines


Coloring outside the lines
Not at my school
Nuns frowned on that;
Skirts above the knee
No way
Not at my school;
No gum, no pens,
No make-up
Not allowed-uh-uh
Not...

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Categories: chalkboards, anger, feelings, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry
There Is a Moon, I Have Seen It
Alone,
the television muted 
Thoughts float about on
shadowed wings 
Faces with moving mouths appear,
nothing is heard 
My mind collects itself,
slanted views 
Trading happiness for solitude,
beneath spinning...

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Categories: chalkboards, dark, moon, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Recess Bell
Recess Bell

Where'd it go
That twice a day relief
Leaving behind blackboard's chalk-lines
To immerse in the blacktop chalk-lines

That place where hop scotch
Poison line
River ball
Target ball
Quickly made chalk...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chalkboards, work,
Form: Free verse



Why Does the Tail Wag the Dog
In human affairs, what prepares
A mortgage to funnel a home
A church to repent its coffers
A vehicle to search its on tank

What keeps stolen pride alive
While...

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Categories: chalkboards, adventure, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
What's In a Name
What's in a Name? 
                    ...

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Categories: chalkboards, allegory, introspection, life, sun,
Form: Free verse
When the Poetry Fades Away
Dull becomes the page, when there's nothing left to say 

When the classroom is empty and the projector is blank

And the halls echo in silence...

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Categories: chalkboards, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Sound Prints In the Sand
The hue of streets; cousins of chalkboards;
the distinct voice of transition; of forbidden love
sipped through straws of anticipation;
swallowing decadent tribulations
to nourish picturesque gardens
and English dreams;...

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Categories: chalkboards, life, nature,
Form: Imagism
Dead Sea Disease
By Laura Dee
November 5, 2014

Suddenly tired of being wired
Desire to die while being admired
Every omen reaks of old grass stains
Nothing in this twisted game to...

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© Laura Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chalkboards, addiction, depression,
Form: Rhyme
As She Watches Me Think Via Challenge Mode
i am drawing a blank right now
the clock is sweating and becoming impatient
i see the dots and spots that formulate clots in the hollow banks...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chalkboards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pretend
This is their moment 
Place on your makeup and let us begin
Cast the shadows of deceit with a grin
Curtain calls and the show begins

The world...

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Categories: chalkboards, confusion, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Magic Carpet Nomads
Silence splattered across the page
Riding on deeply buried tides
Climbing from treetops into hills of tomorrow

Life never exists the way the say
In boardrooms and across chalkboards
They...

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Categories: chalkboards, art, history, life,
Form: Free verse
Morning Song
Outside my window, underneath an eave,
nestlings chirr,  greeting  the new dawn
Sleepy eyes begin to open, seeking,
much to do now that dark of night...

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Categories: chalkboards, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pretend
This is their moment 
Place on your makeup and let us begin
Cast the shadows of deceit with a grin
Curtain calls and the show begins

The world...

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Categories: chalkboards, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs