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Best Graduated Poems

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


Premium Member Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness my untamed heart? ha! 
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...

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Categories: graduated, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love Anger Death and Guilt
LOVE ANGER DEATH AND GUILT 

Blog was A young girl who was 
Still at school
Everyone loved Blog, she
Was nobody’s fool,
In fact her peers regarded as...

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Categories: graduated, anger, love,
Form: Rhyme
It's All About Me
I believe in lots of things I can't see 
My dreams are like a ship's consciousness 
drowned in the ocean 
I want to live for...

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Categories: graduated, pain, today,
Form: Prose Poetry
Heaven Is Real
In 1971 my wife, a nursing aid at the time,
               ...

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Categories: graduated, beautiful, bible, caregiving, christian,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Last Good Days of Innocence
We were a generation free of super-technology.
Yes, we had our records and tv
and the airlines for speedy travel. And yes, 
there had been wars throughout...

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Categories: graduated, people,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sequestration
I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation...

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Categories: graduated, death, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bench of Memories
There's a bench at the high school where I graduated
The wood is cracked, chipped and all weather faded

But in its prime, there each morning faces...

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Categories: graduated, high school, memory,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Eternal Everlasting Joy
Sometimes, I think about my life
And the prices I have paid
All the places I have been
The choices I have made

Seems somewhere along the path
I stumbled...

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Categories: graduated, faith, family, forgiveness, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
16 Years of War
~My True Story 16 Years Of War~

!6 years of living in fear every minute, 16 years living with barely 
any electricity,water, food,hurt from humiliation standing...

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Categories: graduated, political, war,
Form: Free verse
Wearing Depends In the Deep End
I am whatever you say I am 
currently I'm the eyes of the world
it's what they discovered when
daddy tied a pork chop around my neck...

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Categories: graduated, deep, education, gender,
Form: Free verse
Daddy's Song
Time has passed by so quickly
You’ve been gone 2 yrs today
I never knew something could hurt so much
The wound from losing you hasn’t even begun...

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Categories: graduated, absence, anniversary, dad, dedication,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Random Entries From My Diary
"I never travel without my diary - One should have something sensational to read"
...Oscar Wilde, 1891

30 May 48:  I graduated from high school today...

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Categories: graduated, funnyschool, family, family, may,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Oliver O. Howard " the Christian General "
Respect in uniform
A man with respect
Major Oliver O. Howard
One of the US Armies best
 
A courageous soldier
With an order to follow
Dis-quell the Indian Wars
So there...

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Categories: graduated, cowboy-western, family, history, native
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Prime of Life
I was in the prime of my life on paper, I had
a lot to live for.

I came from a loving family,  that were educated
I...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: graduated, dark, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Ohio Poets
From the Ohio River to the Great Lake Erie.
If they come from Cleveland, or south in Cincinnati,
these talented persons’ works are the ones we should...

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Categories: graduated, dedication, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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