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Best Grader Poems

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


Premium Member Day In the Life of the First Grader
This is how a first grader’s day goes. 
Six of them are at a table playing with Legos
Which is kind of the new less-messy playdough...

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Categories: grader, school, teacher, teachers day,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Mr James
His wise council and kind patience bolstered my resolve
to overcome my youthful woes and nightmarish troubles solve.
His humanity may have saved my life. His memory...

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Categories: grader, education, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Poetry Soup and America 2019
Poetry Soup and America, 2019

A country rich in schools and diversity.
Many here have esteemed college degrees,
Yet, why do Americans communicate by smileys?
Worse, we cannot hold a...

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Categories: grader, america, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ambedo- The Anthill
Quote: 
"Ambedo- a  kind of melancholic trance in which
you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory
details- which leads to a dawning awareness
of the fragility of...

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Categories: grader, death, life, metaphor,
Form: Blank verse
Has Anyone Seen My Sister Out There
Has anyone seen my sister out there?

She's the little girl with the dark brown hair.

I am eight and she is three and we like to...

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Categories: grader, art, bereavement, death, deep,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Please Listen To the Children
I am always shocked 
When a second grader cannot tell me 
One single thing they like to do for fun.

I am always surprised
When a third...

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Categories: grader, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Smooth Day Until
Where is your costume?  This question comes from my boss, who is dressed like a mouse
With a cookie.
Best of all, she has brought us...

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Categories: grader, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Free verse
An Uppercut I Remember
Dad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already...

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Categories: grader, father son,
Form: Blank verse
The Inpact of Sports
I love to stay involed with my community.One of the ways I do that is by playing 
sports. Playing sports is a great way to...

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Categories: grader, childhood, history, inspirational, sports,
Form: I do not know?
Cheesecake Lover
Who is she?
She is a seventh grader
Plays softball
Wears glasses
She lives and loves cheesecake
Chaddar cheese
Mac n' cheese
Cheesecake 
Who is she?...

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Categories: grader, best friend, character, friend,
Form: Free verse
The Eraser Came With Sage Advice
The eraser belonged to me; it was saved by my mother and returned along with many other 
childhood items when I became middle aged. I...

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Categories: grader, introspection, on writing and
Form: Narrative
The Bestseller
It’s easy for them not to try
when their love shines as bright as the Northern Star.
I’m thinking about you and I can’t stop
wishing you were...

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Categories: grader, abuse, dark, horror, lonely,
Form: Sestina
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too...

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Categories: grader, memory,
Form: Prose
Retribution
It was kind of nice having money all the
		Time.
	Looking back when I was seventeen,
		I looked forward to going to work.
	It is unlike what I feel...

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Categories: grader, confusion, education, work, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
Equal
I, Thurgood Marshall, am here to represent
my race. I am here to represent these
thirteen parents and twenty children whose
rights have been so egregiously
violated. I don't...

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© Del Phil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grader, hate, inspirational, parents, children,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things