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Best Grads Poems

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Are There Any of Us Left
The cruel streets I walked made me sad
I looked not at him, nor at her
Those who passed me by, gutter grads
I felt at home among...

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Categories: grads, urban, voyage,
Form: Rhyme



Graduation of 2014
Fireworks, like gunshots, 
Make great and astounding sound
Congrats, GRADS! Good luck!

Crowds of commotion 
Party like no tomorrow
Happy, HARD future!

Happiness and cheer
Overflow in everyone
I'm simply...in awe!...

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Categories: grads, change, dedication, encouraging, graduation,
Form: Free verse
Story of My Mom From Pictures
Telling tales or stories is a favourable pasttime;
But using pictures to tell stories of past and present,
Yours remind me of days back in time,
Would not...

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Categories: grads, blessing, children, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Smile
When someone tries to Ignore you,
Or anyone come to bore you,
And no one wants to assure you, 
That he/she has sympathy for you,
Stand up there...

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Categories: grads, best friend, friendship,
Form: ABC
Picture Album Stories of My Mom
Rhyme  Quatrain



Telling tales or stories is a favourable pasttime;
But using pictures to tell stories of past and present,
Yours remind me of days not so...

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Categories: grads, appreciation, blessing, caregiving, cheer
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Blast To the Past
I grew up in the rockin 60’s
Everything back then was new
Rock ‘n’ roll and Chevy’s
There wasn’t anything we couldn’t do

Hot rod Fords and street drag...

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© Rollo West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grads, war, day, , western,
Form: Free verse
I Roll Bowl, Lawns I Know, Anti-Pestcontrol -Last Piece To Goblin Girl Trilogy
Breeders' Cannon Ball plays for days and decades even onto eras
Feeders on the bottom plus top down voodoo economics, no trickle
De-weeders? Why? Lawns are hype...

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Categories: grads, absence, abuse, age, allah,
Form: Personification
Words Gone Rag a Satire
Words Gone Rag

what a pity
how absurd
college grads have lost their words
latent grammar
dead vocab
grab at every
prep they have

don't know what the trouble is...
at computers they can...

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Categories: grads, education, funny, on writing
Form: Couplet
The College Graduation
The College Graduation

By Elton Camp

To a life of prosperity, you see
Your college degree is the key

Commencement speaker did say
Each and every expected cliché 

“Not an...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grads, angst, life, may,
Form: Rhyme
From the Pit of Hell
FROM THE PIT OF HELL
By R. A. Merritt

The KKK has got a new name 
But they don’t wear a robe and hood
They’re alternative right and...

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Categories: grads, anger, anxiety, depression, political,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Each Day Left Is a Miracle of Grace
Each day's dawn is a miracle, grateful I am
To discover the sun even rose,
Thank the Lord that I still have a tent
For so few college...

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Categories: grads, anti bullying, anxiety, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member President Trump
Let’s give credit where credit is due.
Trump’s accomplishments—I’ll give a few—
should be mentioned today,
so to those who naysay,
let me offer a positive view.

Now the jobless...

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Categories: grads, political, usa,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Class of 73 and 74
Three long years ago
I first entered these marbled walls
Now with glory and honor pride
Intervened in me we go down in history
On through the day we...

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Categories: grads, beautiful, caregiving, celebration, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paycheck
stationed at kissing desks 
I feel the implode of anxiety
within this sweathouse of labor and woe

telephones chime
with the sweet rhythm of security
being enslaved can be...

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© Ricky Muse  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grads, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Downright Insulting
Fifty per cent 
 of Harvard grads 
  opt for finance or consulting

The percentage who go into teaching?
 That figure's downright discomfiting
  ~...

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Categories: grads, career, graduate, money, teacher,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs