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Best Old School Poems

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The Old School Yard
Children's laughter during

recess, Jungle Gym, monkey bars,

kick ball, all happened long ago

on the old school yard.

Playing marbles for keeps

on our knees was a treat

i looked...

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Categories: old school, childhood, nostalgiaschool, old, old,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 4th Grade Music Room
Under her guidance, we stood at attention
Like a row of young soldiers, reciting the anthem
"Oh Say, Can You See?".. was a warbled contusion,
that could shatter...

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Categories: old school, 4th grade, nostalgia, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lest We Forget
I remember those days when just a kid,
the old ten shilling note, and the odd quid.*
Teddy boys in their drain pipes, fur collars
smelling of nicotine,...

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Categories: old school, nostalgia, school, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
Another Class Reunion
85 th class reunion...
                     ...

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Categories: old school, age, old, school,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Straight To Hell - a Short Story
I was a seventeen year old senior in a coed, catholic high school.  Our gym classes however were still all boys and all girls....

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old school, life, day, school, teacher,
Form: Narrative



Undo and Redo
If I could go back,
and knew what I know,
I’d change a few things,
and shake up the flow.
I might go to class,
be where I should be,
Say...

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Categories: old school, allegory, analogy, old, school,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Problems
Problems many of which are not getting solved
not because I'm not resolved but because I delay
to savor the day, the moon and the season
which is...

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Categories: old school, child, dad, games, old,
Form: Verse
My Dream Wedding Day
Looking at the first blush of the morning,
I know its the perfect day for a wedding.
The big fat white wedding, the dream,
To which every little...

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Categories: old school, confusion, depression, faith, family,
Form: Rhyme
Walking To School
A walk to school out of the backdoor, through the homemade back gate, through a narrow alley,
Cars parked on the curb, guarded by paraffin lamps,...

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Categories: old school, nostalgia, school, old, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Rubber Boot
Sitting staring out the window for my sister to return
An overwhelming sadness, my stomach in a churn.
She a half day at school and I have...

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Categories: old school, childhood, funny, sister, sorry,
Form: Rhyme
Professors of the School of Hard Knocks
Some people are of the belief, that teacher come from one place
From a school or university, with degrees all over the wall
Know great big fancy...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old school, educationschool, teacher, old, time,
Form: I do not know?
The Toy Collector
Toy collector:

He holds the bear gently in his old wrinkled hands as he gazes into its kind beaded eyes. The toy collector sees love lined...

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Categories: old school, childhood, dedication, family, children,
Form: Ballad
Memories of the Past
This air blows around me 
Reminds me of the good old days
High school days which are past
Gone never to return
Old faces come and go
My head...

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Categories: old school, history, sad, time, school,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member For the School
The school I’ve worked for half my teaching years is feeling more
and more the woes of these hard times.  I walk the corridor,
remembering the...

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Categories: old school, workschool, god, old, god,
Form: Rhyme
Call Me On My Butterscotch
1. heath ledger resides in my closet
2. i don't smoke
3. my weight worries me
4. i tell them everything
5. cats are better than dogs
6. cats should...

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Categories: old school, judgement, nonsense, old, school,
Form: List

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