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Best Scholarship Poems

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Remission (In Memory of William Watt).
Birth begins the tragedy in us. Life's
First sound is a blank scream
Against sorrow's hidden portends of strifes
All we know are mirages and dream.

Mother took the...

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Categories: scholarship, brother, death, nostalgiaworld, time,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member From Humble Beginnings
FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
 
As the bitter Northern wind howled in the grey early morn,
Sat a young child half frozen, looking sad and forlorn,
He came from...

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Categories: scholarship, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
My Heart Yearns
Back of my heart I yearn
Even for a glimpse of your shadow returns
It is being long past years since we met last 
I am on...

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Categories: scholarship, first love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Love You Dad
So many things I want to tell you my Dad
But I choke up in tears feeling awfully sad,
I grew-up so fast since the day you...

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Categories: scholarship, grief,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member College 'Ll Wait
Dad an’ I were tryin’ hard to land a pan o’ Redeye just outside o’ Huntsville 
off a dock on Mouzon Lake,
When I got all...

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Categories: scholarship, family,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Sooner Recruit
Fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it...

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Categories: scholarship, celebrity, character, childhood, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Everyone Changes: Part Two
Kang, an asian boy who has lunch by me, has the funniest laugh I know.
I BET IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS... he will become a...

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Categories: scholarship, high school, identity, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paul and Sarah - Part Two
Conditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never...

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Categories: scholarship, adventure, america, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member W-My Teacher - the Master of Simplification
The result of my last year high school was out
And was sad, dejected as I got the second top
Losing the scholarship for further study scope
As...

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Categories: scholarship, dad, high school, teacher,
Form: Sonnet
School Head-Captain
Below are the majority views of students about to vote
for their next high school head-captain: 


Nelson:

He is tall and handsome,
plays for our basketball team,
knows the...

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Categories: scholarship, funny, high school, hilarious,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Bulldog Returns From College
Face flush with the cold,
She comes, with the wind laughing at her back
Across our threshold once more, 
And in moments it is as though she'd...

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Categories: scholarship, childhood, daughter, family, love,
Form: Free verse
Misguided Youth
I've been in college for four years and i promise I aint learned s***
Thank god i'm on scholarship and I didn't have to pay for...

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Categories: scholarship, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
The Love Letter
Dear Leonardo,  

To begin, I know that you are use to girls who are socialites from well to do families.  I didn't answer...

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Categories: scholarship, life,
Form: Free verse
Cooley High In Reverse
Cooley High In Reverse 

Sometimes I watch the 1970's movie
Cooley High in reverse,
The reason being that the ending is
the worse,
I figure if I view it...

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Categories: scholarship, black african american, high
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 16
Now that December has descended
with it's roots of ice and skies of snow
our timber fortress is a sanctuary of ethnographic enlightenment
and embassy that entreats the...

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Categories: scholarship, adventure,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs