Best Seventh Grade Poems

I wear a mask of happiness because it is the only way,
To get me by unnoticed through each horrible day
My sister isn’t here,
My mom and...

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First grade, pelted with eggs
  Second grade, broke both legs
Third grade, fell down the stairs
  Fourth grade, clawed by a bear

Fifth grade, ran...

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Cubism is my favorite art.
I love making silly blockheaded people, pretending 
Ignorance as to why I would have drawn certain 
Wonderful people in this manner.

I...

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The story of Granddaughter Lily
By Franklin Price
4/14/2015

The story of granddaughter Lily
Is one I feel compelled to tell
Of talent that revealed itself
Really from the starting bell

At...

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Preschool
I cried because
A bigger kid
Knocked over the castle
I’d built
Kindergarten
I cried because
Somebody stole
The chocolate bar 
I’d brought 
First grade
I cried because
The teacher yelled at me
It wasn’t...

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Her strong apron strings
have a hold over him, 
Suffocating his soul
Controlling and grim.

"Let him go", I cry out 
This young man in his prime ...

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bring back the old days
of laughter and smiles
of gatherings and families
of love and joy

bring back the old days
of happy meal toys
of pokemon cards
and toys r...

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Her hand extended to caress my face,
to wipe the tears away.
gentle with a sense of grace.
putting back the parts that fray.

Hand approaching,
instinctive defense kicks in,
involuntarily...

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No other school compared to junior high.
In grade school I was average and shy.
But something special happened in the year
I entered seventh grade. I lost...

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I remember in kindergarten,
I and a few friends were put on the yellow light,
the light of shame, for playing tic-tac-toe on the Spanish room tables.
oh...

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He last had a pal in the 7th grade,
 They shared a class from the 1st grade.
 And together, for Home Economics,
 they were always...

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(Although this was inspired by Olusequn Adelana's poetry challenge about betrayal, it is 
much too long to enter it; but I'm thankful for any poetic...

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<                 seventh grade third hour spelling teacher
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thirteen year old boy 
south central 
stagnating pond 
in a ten mile universe 

he had dreams 
aspirations 
knew there was more 
education, it propels 
he...

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By some stroke of luck or justice all the kids who were chosen last, mercilessly teased through the years or simply were too fat or...

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