Best Schoolboy Poems

Schoolboy

Can this be school? So dark and worn
a backless seat, walls of scorn.
Someone said, “We need a school.
This cement relic here will do.”

There sits a boy who’s come to learn.
See his human interest yearn.
He must write on several sheets.
The desk tells its own tale beneath.

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Love makes us men come apart at the seams
Act like school boys dreaming young dreams

Walking into walls, or in the side of a bus
Oblivious to the perils, our minds turn to mush

Don't get me wrong, it's the best feeling ever
May I never wake up, wish...

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Matthew had a secret he could never tell

Yes Matthew had a secret, he hid it very well

His heart was dark and his mind was filled with burning clay

All the other children’s parents said with Matthew do not play

His first victim was a pretty girl named...

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Streamy tears from above
Roll down the window pane
In a form of beads
Strung by unseen cords.

Bicycles race furiously
In haste away from the torrents,
The world, in ceaseless motion
Except this poor soul of mine,

With heads bowed down in sorrow,
The masquerade tree lamented,
The white line bore no silver lining.
No,...

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Poems about Children IV

Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch

Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long thin legs, watching the sweat...

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