School Cinquain Poems

Teacher
Bossy, caring
Reaching, teaching, preaching
Friendly, serious, focused, brave
Teacher
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Hero

Caring, Respectful

Empathetic, Kind, Loving

Purposefully Helpful

Teacher...

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Snowflakes.
Fragments of dreams,
Swirl non-committally.
Will they settle, or fade away?
Who knows.

Shovel.
Sadly untouched,
Standing expectantly.
Will it finally have its day?
Doubt it.

Children.
Hope boiling over,
Planning epic snow-fights.
Will their school be...

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Bully
A narcissistic, ignorant rat
He pushes kids into mud puddles
Keeping the weak ones frightened
Thug...

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Knowledge palace
Filled with future fantasies
Diving in new and new vocabularies
Fast door of success
Wonderful school!...

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Caza
Funny, Intelligent
Girl Charming Voice
There For The Homies
Cute, Not In That Way...

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Circles
Round forms
Turning flips in water
Comforting group of close friendships
Cliques
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Struggles.
Short term the school.
Long term the house of love.
A career until retirement.
My world....

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Of school 
I had no need. 
I was too smart for such 
useless and unfulfilling crap 
I thought

Too soon 
two many words 
to far from...

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Grand oak
majestic beaut
trampled leaves left for dead
school-children retrieve, paper, glue
regal









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Dear God
I pray they’re safe
When they are gone, in school
Let them know our love, come home safe
To us
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Mommas sorry I took you from
The only life that you knew of

Mommas sorry I took you away
From your world of friends of every day

Mommas sorry...

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August
Fun at the beach
Picnics with the family
Soon be time to go back to school
Summer...

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Hopscotch
with whip and top
or marbles and five stones-
pastimes lost now in memory's
chasm....

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