Best Detention Poems

For once this is a poem that really happened to me a long time ago.
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Sometimes I recall some deed of the past,
Why, that day I...

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With hair ablaze, a jester unconfined,
I scoffed at the mundane, its life declined.
My wardrobe, a riot, a rhapsody bold,
Mismatched socks my standard, stories untold.

In classrooms...

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"The Forest"

In the forest 
we meet strange gods
our reflections 
are seen in their eyes

in our dreams
we remember them
we meet them face on 
we touch them

they...

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"Fragments and crumbs of life, 
                   ...

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The paper lay flat
on a low reading table,

yet thick in it's pages,
a days worth of fable.

Our library bright with it's
rays to it's sills

and the paper...

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Early On

Sitting there alone in class
they said it wasn't cool.
He should not bring his bible
to read while he's in school.

The gave him detention
and they took...

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It happened in a moment, during my 7th grade English class   *
As we studied classic literature; “Evangeline”,  the poem
A substitute teacher,...

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When yet another lover flees my cat sized bed
and leaves me wild and comely in the night
I wonder if it's unknown words I've read
Or is...

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Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young,...

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2013


I don’t remember any one moment or act that brought myself
and my friends to this moment….maybe it was the night we had
dinner at  Aunt...

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Escaping grinding poverty
And violent crimes
You left scant existence
Holding your Dad's hand
In the middle of the night
Going on a long journey
Dreaming of a free land

Miles and...

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An old blue uniform 
that hadn't fit in fifty years,
beneath which:
Letters I don't recall sending,
a daub in oils, 
slashed, repaired, and saved.
A note, detention, smoking,
tucked inside
a dictionary,...

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I‘d been staying with pa - my folks got a divorce
and pa took me to the local greyhound course 
Pa’s greyhound was running, he runs...

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Once upon a time I shared a cubicle with the detention supervisor.
Mr. Hell was swift and severe detention.
I was lavish and immediate positive attention.
We got...

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Maybe I feel sorry for;
The  amongst us thieves;
The ones who give to us;
But don't ever receive.

Maybe beggars can't be choosers;
Like lovers amongst the abusers;
That's...

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