Best Memorization Poems

In school, I had to memorize
A Kilmer poem called “Trees.”
I wasn’t crazy ‘bout it, but
I did the deed with ease.

My 6th grade brain had lots...

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Smooth as ebony silk, black aquatic waves the melting
Essence of liquid evil, stirring this lake placid of our
Eternal nightmares, deadened space in the fathoms
Deep, beneath...

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Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren:

Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[cooperative] education and [therapeutic] training
is the [mindful] key to allowing people to contribute
to a...

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What have you learned from your family experience
that influences your position
on public health and safety,
national health defense
and economic offensives you might propose
for healthier individuals 
and...

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In college I frequently pulled all nighters
And showed up for morning tests somewhat less brighter
     With caffeine and pizza I struggled...

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Dear Poetry Soup connoisseurs, and
courageous ones sharing and learning

There are those of you leaving me breathless
with your best, I must confess

Those vocabs astounds me to...

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Deep Listening is integral and creative;
learning to listen in an organically dialectical context.
It works most effectively when you,
and your team,
and family,
and species,
trust their environment,
so everybody...

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Do you ever think about why you came to college?
to meet some new people? maybe gain some knowledge?
or out of obligation and potentially some homage?
Look,...

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Once upon this time
I was listening to the Christian Fathers
retell traditional stories
of God's election and predestination.

Predestination
is like being born into royalty,
power,
privileges of humane Earth's regenerative...

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What is not a question forms phraseology
Parallel worlds in freelance
A Fraction of elevated erudition
where days discuss weeks
hours neglect seconds
And accommodations without specifications
scar our ability to...

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We wear uniforms. 
Pleated cloth, v-necks, submission with a smile. Our uniform

We ask for privileges that should be our right. 
We are not prisoners, their...

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Words unsaid can be undone
And in this way our liberty's forgone
Are we so abandoned in our quest for the throne
That we leave each other starved,...

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Because I think of Barkley as my
four-year-old son, and I've gotten him
vaccinated to prove it, do I now 
put him in dog obedience school and
call...

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Grounding teeth against the wollywork 
Memorization doesn't appetite and clause
Matching petulant crashing opposed 
Language and its neighbor
Avenue of bark 
Credible crock croaking a broken moat
Butcher...

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Some See
David J Walker

Some see sun 
Some see none
some 
see 
the sum of 
light and countable  
luminations

Some see night 
and fear 
As the first...

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