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Best Valedictory Poems

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Premium Member Aha Haiku
Morning drizzle
Drops of rainbow;
Colours dazzle

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Weather contrast
Hot and dehydrating;
Sticky humidity

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Lonely songbird
Dawn epiphany;
Lost lover's lament

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New journal entry
Ring-bound folio;
Ink stain memory

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Sleepy distractions
Lazy Saturday weather;
Bakery fragrance 

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Towering monolith
War memorial...

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Categories: valedictory, change, , memorial,
Form: Haiku



Bread Fruits
As I watched some bread fruits fall, 
I thought of friends answering heaven's call:
Like flowering plants were the youth and rigidity- 
Of these gems full...

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Categories: valedictory, absence, best friend, death,
Form: Elegy
I Have Seen the Stars Fallen
I Have Seen The Stars Fallen

  The pageants veiled, and gnawed at gladness,
  As prism from far inter-stellar space;
  And they eclipse...

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Categories: valedictory, introspectionsky, stars,
Form: Rhyme
The Narcissist
Turning into an angelic beast,
Here is the ugly Narcissist....
For others! She cared least,
Here's the ugly Narcissist.

When the plot of life got revealed,
She had a role...

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Categories: valedictory, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Terrorists
Terrorism is a villainous violence, 
Used by those who disagree,
Bloodshed breaks the somber silence,
Between those who feel unfree. 

However, when one disagrees
With how the system...

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Categories: valedictory, america, anger, freedom, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Commencement Celebrations
Nostalgic about moving-on moments
my mind lingers at throwback scenes
milestones surpassing oblivion challenge.

1974... Kindergarten toga and cap propelled my steps
toward big brother’s elementary campus
midst anticipation of...

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Categories: valedictory, appreciation, blessing, encouraging, god,
Form: Tristich
In Her Twilight Years
Held fast by poetry and Beaudelaire   
in a pencil skirt  worn on Sunday rare   
she enrolls and returns to school...

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Categories: valedictory, celebration, desire,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Boy Beyond
Precocious boy, yon ere the age of twelve,
Parades vast knowledge, complexity swelled,
Our simplistic share was well understood,
Kept back of minds, preserves naive childhood.

Green imparts years...

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Categories: valedictory, appreciation, boy, destiny, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Execution
Execution

In the absence of complication,
intricacies of wayward living,
matters emphatically mitigated,
compelling conclusions, well-received,
extenuating circumstance accomplishes,
impressive consequences, be enduring,
proffers a conciliatory concession, 
for toward said conclusion, we...

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Categories: valedictory, allegory, moving on, muse,
Form: Free verse
Viva La Viva
V vaunts verbiage vociferously.
Visage viewed very vacuous                  ...

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Categories: valedictory, freedom,
Form: Quintilla
I Wonder What You Look Like Now
I reflect on what you look like now!
You were beauteous when I saw you last.
What precious gifts did time endow?
All those years of tranquil absence
As...

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Categories: valedictory, absence, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Best Boy Beyond
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Best Boy Beyond

Precocious...

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Categories: valedictory, boy, education, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jealousy Sought My Fame
Victory neared but I had all but given up
Memory had slowly begun to abandon me,
Ivory towers no longer satisfied my needs
Trajectory found me kneeling on...

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Categories: valedictory, fantasy, irony, jealousy,
Form: Lento
Let Us Spread Love: the Purge
Liberated and confident she stood there,
    Embracing the moonlight and fresh air.
    Tears softly running down her cheeks.

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Categories: valedictory, break up, celebration, confidence,
Form: Acrostic
Money On the Matriarch
She is insatiable;predatory
In business always valedictory
Sees no conflict of interest in her position
Spurns financial disclosure requisition

She strides like a colossus, speedily
Eating smaller fry greedily
Using as...

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Categories: valedictory, 12th grade, africa,
Form: Rhyme

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