Best Yearbooks Poems

Lighter of mind today
I enjoyed everyone today
The struggle was abstract
I could look upon it from above, see its shape
My wavelength was clear and even
Not calm
Smooth,...

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We built a remembrance sight just for you, dear sister,
   a granite bench with a poem engraved with your...

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The time reads ten on the clock

and I take in hand my pen.


I pull up my chair to my makeshift desk

and begin removing books from...

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It’s Memorial Day

I thumb through my high school yearbook,
Soiled, unpadded from another day.
My children don’t know of our mindset then,
The second war all wars to...

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That treasury of memories most precious,
With these few words I seek to praise.
It is our school yearbooks of the past,
The repository of events from happier...

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An editor of Twig, I was
The least accomplished one.
I hadn’t taken art for years
Like most of them had done.

The “Head-itor” took care of most 
Responsibilities.
She...

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Tears come easily on this special night,
          It's saying farewell that is hard.
Thoughts turn to the...

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Life has no physical form or shape. Life is an essence we all calculate
We calculate our days by looking at a calender to see 
What...

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American Girls blankly stare
Where shadows lend the mood of dusk
And Harry Potter shares a shelf
With Curious George
Nearby the bed
On which I read
To my young girl...

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I went to visit my friend, Frank
I shouted his name and to no response...
this was the first time in six months 
that I went to...

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Before there were rainbows, I roamed ambidextrously,
I streeled out into predawn air, senseless between Moon and Mars,
Reeling under Calvinistic cinder blocks, I hid from my...

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Fragile antiques
Old doll houses
and old love letters from the spouses
16 year old yearbooks
with old fashioned looks
Old musty smells 
and cracked Christmas bells
Worn teddy bears 
on...

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Beyond the bridge the sweet,quiet and snow white home
Enjoyable walks replacing Endless crosslanes
Clean woods aroma exchanging for the Foul Streets
And quiet college with sidewalk in...

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F anciful fabulous fairyland
A geless adulation awaken
I rrevocably immortalize
R egal radiant recollection
Y earning yesterday’s youthful yearbooks

G lamorous gadgets gimmicks girdles
O utrageous outfits overindulge
D efiant delay...

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Handshakes and hugs and “it’s been a long time” kisses
Meeting the husbands and the Mrs.
Pictures being shown of kids and grandkids
Some of the men with...

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