Best Elementary School Poems

Mrs. Lightfoot had taught music at Talbot Elementary School for years.
A couple of her pupils excelled in music but most became engineers.
She sat at her...

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On the day after Christmas, they started appearing,
cast out of houses, stripped of their finery,
lying crooked in the gutter, garbage bags flanking.

My brothers and I...

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"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"

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December day

There are no words that we can say,
About the tragedy that happened on that December day.
When an elementary school came under attack
And all those...

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[This poem first appeared in the anthology, "The Soul and the Singer," Young Publications, c. 1968.  It was reprinted in my first poetry chapbook...

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Kindergarten Teacher

  Kind when she shares her bologna sandwich.
 
  Imaginative when she has to use Q-tips to teach.
  
  Nurturing...

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MY FIVE SENSES

In my fifties I disavow the taste
but back in elementary school
the image would drift into daydreams —
pork kidneys with savory gravy
went well with...

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I did not hesitate for one second.
I am an elementary school counselor.
I get to play with children.


They uplift me, and delight me.
I do my best...

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I
Want
To
Commit
Suicide

Something we
never heard in the 60’s
When I was growing up

I 
Want
To
Kill
Myself

Something I rarely heard 
in the 70’s when I was 
starting a family

I
Want
To
Commit
Suicide

Something that popped...

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I was an elementary school teacher, with dreaming eyes to the rosy future,
Like the emerald, cherry blossom season, arriving later rather than sooner.

As a creative...

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Now let us forget foreign captains
And Conquistadores myth
That colors the morning exuberantly
With exotics wars and phony fathers
Like a fine lady strolling along a rotten street
I...

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As I sit here, I listen to the words I try so hard to, but cannot block out,
How is it that I have not experianced...

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When we think of traveling we most often think of going from one location to another. That’s good but I sometimes like to return in...

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It's been twenty (20) years going on forever since I'd been bullied around. It seemed that this devastating event would never go away;  it...

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Once long ago on a school visit to the zoo
My little one had just begun elementary school
High up on a tree branch sat a lonely...

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