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Best Truant Poems

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Premium Member Butterfly Dance
 I saw truant clouds wading through late evening sky. 
With sunset, they got dyed in varying shades,
Forming into configurations of differing shape and size!...

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Categories: truant, appreciation, beauty, moon, stars,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member October Bliss
I ride freely in respite with what this blissful month serves
Like truant in yoga, forgetting all wonga and being wonk
That I may enjoy a long...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truant, october,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Think of Me Come Nightfall
Think of me as the eyes of late nightfall
crawling through a wafting sill
where lone moon cuddles dimmed glow
before she quietly slowly lays
herself on a cradle...

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Categories: truant, devotion, night, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Revenge Is Not Always Sweet
People in my school have names for someone like me.
    Freak, crazy, weirdo, a spawn by the devil's decree.
   ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truant, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
At the End of Dr Ram S Words
Yesterday I caught the drift of a word
Almost at the end of Dr. Ram?s words
That I had it all, three in one, with music and...

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Categories: truant, life, thank youme, heart,
Form: Narrative



A Sinner's Prayer
Oh Lord, I am selfish but no fish I sell
A true believer I am though I’m an outlaw,
I’m your truant Christian;
Every day, I fear to...

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Categories: truant, anger, courage, prayer, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Happened To 'Jordan'
In the wee hours of a cool autumn night,
They were roused from sleep by a loud knock.
They feared it would be some bandits,
Trying to get...

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Categories: truant, anxiety, character, missing, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Two Sides of a Coin
She stands there in knickers,
A cap on her head,
Looking tomboyish, truant and tough
And a cigarette dangles
From unsmiling lips
To warn all she’s not taking their guff.

It’s...

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Categories: truant, grandmother, image,
Form: Rhyme
Mysterious Muse
A cartridge filled with a horde of shackled emotions, am I,
Trifle feelings loiter within me, until she elicits them out,
Wizened by time, she knows that...

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Categories: truant, appreciation, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Hydrangea's Lament
Her comely cheeks - a blush of pink,
where yesterday, there bloomed a rose - 
demure though proud, the morning light 
reprised the births each day...

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Categories: truant, life,
Form: Free verse
The Discipline of a Student
Oh Lord, I know you know I have been thanking you a lot lately
But today I want to pray
~~~	~~~	~~~
Almighty Lord
You know me and you know...

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Categories: truant, on work and workingme,
Form: Narrative
Twas the Night Before the Wedding
Twas the night before my cousin's 
wedding
He reluctantly gave in to the 
bachelor party vetting
A burlesque, tawdry strip club was 
the setting
Unbeknownst to him, the...

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Categories: truant, funnynight, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member School Day Hell
They called it school
I called it hell 
From the huge imposing prison like doors
To the doom like toll of the bell
Everyday the same
Running for the...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: truant, angst, education, funny, hockey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Fishy Tale
How could the weather forecast not tantalize me
To play truant on the eve of Miss Gaybird’s test?
The river would be an invitation the next day
To...

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Categories: truant, fishing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Lenses
When I was young I hated school;
in playing truant saw no harm.
How could I throw away the fun
which I enjoyed on grandpa’s farm?

My mum was...

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Categories: truant, education, school, teacher,
Form: Quatrain

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