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Best Senior Poems

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


Premium Member Her Senior Year
*for AG

Last leg home, the sun setting in the polluted haze of the city,
looks Like I feel, my thoughts a golden glow, every brushstroke

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Categories: senior, daughter
Form: Narrative



Premium Member In November
In November I write of winter
  for I am weary of the old year and tired bones
I visualize all hardships blanketed with fresh snowfall
geese...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: senior, november, poetry, seasons, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Boldly Go
My training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the...

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Categories: senior, science fiction, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member India
I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the language
Swelling in...

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Categories: senior, appreciation, art, dance, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don'T Throw Me Away
You look at me so uninviting;
I may have some missing teeth, stumble when I walk, bout' to FALL!!!
Stutter when I talk, but yet I'll still...

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Categories: senior, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Ballade



Premium Member Famous Last Line
India (Original Poem)

I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the...

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Categories: senior, hindi, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beautification
Corralled in Plato’s cave,
groupies of untenable shadows,
silenced their intuitions to the smoke and other sighs.

Jamaica’s capital hosted a convention
giving an ever-leaving coward’s play a stage,
now...

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Categories: senior, allegory, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dear Budding Poet
Dear Budding Poet,

Modern poetry is a mix of new and old with modern styles created by bending or even breaking the rules of old forms...

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Categories: senior, encouraging, poetry,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Of Christmases Past
It gradually turned chilly between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Although Frosty the Snowman rarely visited our part of Texas, his pal, Jack Frost, surely did. ...

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Categories: senior, christmas, giving, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: senior, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Follow the Bouncing Ball
She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown 
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille 
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal

Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special...

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Categories: senior, cheer up, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Signs and Times
You say: Wrong place—wrong time,
Maybe: Wrong place—not right time,
Not right place—but wrong time?
I say: This's right place—right time, 
In times and places,
What is the time?
Where...

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Categories: senior, people, places, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not Even Close
A musical throng of 400,000 strong invaded a dairy farm in New York in 1969,
 which set fire to the 70’s; but there was no...

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Categories: senior, growing up, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
David Flavoured
Enticed by his faceted aspects
                Political points show his honour
...

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Categories: senior, black african american, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause...

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Categories: senior, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs