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Best Matriculated Poems

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


Dare Risk, Travel To the Moon
It seemed that I dared
To climb the stairs toward heaven
Effort over a millennium, or was it timeless? 
A spiritual goal pursued in this endless universe
No...

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Categories: matriculated, destiny, earth, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Graduation Day
I was drawn to the title and the rules of this contest,
Indeed, it tickled my fancy, enticed, and energized me,
As I feel the need to...

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Categories: matriculated, graduation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Not From Lancaster
I am not from Lancaster ain't no tumbleweed rollin through my backyard or brain.  when those beautiful snow capped mountains show up in the...

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Categories: matriculated, adventure, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Personification



The Best Koans Make Ice-Cream Cones
It hard to know
Why i was expelled
From the fundamentals of poetry.

Each day 
Like a loyal monk
i played my flute
With the basket
Over my head.
As the lemmings
Passed
In...

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Categories: matriculated, creation, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Raconteur Prevaricator De Jure
This chap iz a life
long student – groan fizzy
(from being protean entity
at least sustained along minimally
cerebral Mohorovicic continuity
till...post mortality
reincarnating one carbon peculiarity
enigmatic existence eternally

into maternity...

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Categories: matriculated, 9th grade, education, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Mine Nightmare With Social Anxiety
Mine Nightmare With Social Anxiety,...
Now Mostly Purged

Decades removed when body electric
felt tortured reverberated, and quaked
with MegaDeath repercussions tattooing, 
piercing, foisting, ensnaring, drubbing
 
drum beat indelibly...

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Categories: matriculated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Never Underestimate Your Dragon; He Might Become a Great Professor Someday
An abandoned dragonling I did find,
I took him in and built a metal shed
for this dragonling to lay his head;
he grew to have a profound...

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Categories: matriculated, adventure, animal, fantasy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
I Espouse Playing the Baiting Game With the Missus
(which above frolicsome gambit I mastered)
After mine wife
asks for this, that
or something else rife
with intent to provide barrel of laughs,
(likened to barrel of monkeys)
yours truly...

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Categories: matriculated, adventure, character, engagement, games,
Form: Free verse
Tutu - Archhbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu 1931-2021
I
small father, The Arch is missed even by Dalai Lama, Buddhists
this writer loves Israel, but Tutu cried for Palestine, fellow-activists
my truth: the Arch gave me...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matriculated, america, appreciation, brother, christian,
Form: Bio
When In a Jam I Try To Preserve Meditative Trance
When in a jam, I try to preserve meditative trance

Synonymous with light hypnotic mode
inhaling and exhaling diffusing anger
lest mine noggin would explode
rhythmic breaths flowed
sustained me...

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Categories: matriculated, addiction, beautiful, blessing, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Empty Nest Syndrome, Plus Lapsed Romances Revisited
Empty nest syndrome, plus lapsed romances revisited...
courtesy Matthew Scott Harris
sentimental memorialized mental archive

No matter mine eldest daughter
(born December 22nd, 1996)
starred circa within storied
Matthew Scott Harris...

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Categories: matriculated, abuse, anger, bereavement, cry,
Form: Bio
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Nafld
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) -

Our beloved youngest daughter Shana Aubrey
(endearingly called “Shayne Punim”)
still feels under the weather,
with symptoms centered around gastrointestinal tract,
though she lives...

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Categories: matriculated, anxiety, daughter, father, health,
Form: Free verse
In the Beginning.....
In the beginning.......,
before the children went off to school,
They played companions to their parents,
going everywhere with them,
Sharing their thoughts and feelings,
They were young innocent spirits,
Then,...

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Categories: matriculated, childhoodchildren, drug,
Form: Prose Poetry
Mine Unending Nightmare With Crippling Generalized Anxiety
Triggered to skyhigh elevated state
when I received communiqué
courtesy management warden
christened and otherwise
known as Jackie Geiger
dated March 9, 2022.

She averred fruit fly infestation
constituted lease violation,
which could...

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Categories: matriculated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Overzealousness and Assiduousness
Overzealousness and assiduousness...

now propels yours truly towards restitution
courtesy sophisticated mountebank,
whose criminal mind
filched mine banknotes
rationed for when I exhibit decrepitude.
Cutthroat robber baron
re: newly minted vandal
an alumni...

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Categories: matriculated, angel, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme