School Blitz Poems

Rainy Day Repetition
(26-line Blitz, adapted for teaching young poets the structure)

Write fifty things
Write about rain
Rain that falls
Rain that splashes
Splashes my umbrella
Splashes when I stomp
Stomp in...

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Tree Talk

We are taught that
A line of time
Is the dimension which
Orders our lives..
This school lesson
Assumed and forgotten..

Until experience rebels
When we are shown a
Cross-section of a...

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Today I am hungry
I can hear noises rumbling
In my tummy
I'm stuck in school.

I am sitting here in class
Not working very fast
Though I must do this...

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If you want to see how well your school is doing 
In the conservation stakes,
The race on which the future of the planet,
Could well be...

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Beyond the horizons of our doubts, we wandered,
For we were blinded by the obsession that confronts us with the shame of illiteracy,
For this cause, we...

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Went to learn
Went to school
Got all A's
Got great things
Found a college
Found some friends
We all applied
We all got in
Continued school
Continued life
Lost a job
Lost control
Grew afraid
Grew anxious
Locked...

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Social network stances a spider’s web today
Once trapped you are slaved for life all the way

Where you see a virtual world of “Likes” to display
Showcasing...

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I think about her everytime that the sunset and sunrise

She just a piece of ass to some guys

But she's more than, loyal, the type to...

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THE SECRET

Shh! The walls have ears; let them not hear you
Let no other ear hear this! Threatening warnings of my father
Compelled alliance with my father;...

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