Class Assignment Poems

Premium Memberwe are all alone: totally wired

...Everything’s been frantic since the break.
What people don’t tell you about college,
is that you’re just tired ALL of the time.
I’m so tired, yawn ‘scuse me.
So if you’re planning to talk ...
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Categories: class assignment, poems, school, self, sick,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGrowing Up In the Sixties

...As a young teen I sadly confess, I dreamt of becoming an actress.
A class assignment drew me to Warner's  in D.C., where I
brushed up against black history..
I stumbled into a meeting of the NAACP...
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Categories: class assignment, high school, history,
Form: Light Verse


Angels Above

...Angels Above be with me 
keep me far from harm's way.
Angels Above above be with me 
throughout every moment of the day.
Guide me through my troubles 
and help me do my best.
I think now it's t...
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Categories: class assignment, 7th grade, angel, blessing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIf My Heart Could Talk--

...If my heart could talk
 it would say thank you Lord God
 if my heart could cough
 I  would purged up all my sins
 if I will let my heart talk
 beating flow constantly
 Reviving me,...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, appreciation, heart,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeauty-

...Death is beauty only when it’s physical and your –
Soul and spirit goes to heaven
Ugly is beauty causing you to recruiting
Beauty is just a name
For the selfish
And the immune
Be...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, beautiful, how i
Form: Free verse


The Files of Doctor Hugh Mein

...in 2040 in a small town in
near Seattle. 
 A Group of college students
on a class assignment found
a briefcase with the words
"GODSENT" on the front.
they pried open the case and found
documen...
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Categories: class assignment, animal, nature, science, science
Form: Bio

Premium MemberIf I Had- - -

...If I had? Like at my finger tips
If I had my soul in my hands, I’d be rich;
My spirit would rank high in dividends;
Wouldn’t need any rich men’s;
If I had a perfect wish, I’d have  at ...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, caregiving, cheer up,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Powers That Be Kryptonite- -

...I AM A HERO
BLACK
Are you my kryptonite
To battle the powers that be
Discrimination, political 
Spirituals warfare
Sadly my powers that be ruled over me
I AM A HERO 
WHITE Are you my kryptoni...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, anxiety, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberO Fair Adrenaline

...O’ fair Adrenaline
Oh, powerful you make me strong;
I can’t do wrong
Beautiful Adrenaline
You got my heart pumping
Got my breath in my chest
I’m just sweating
Biceps protruding bulging;
I ...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, appreciation, engagement, for
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberErasing Your Memory

...If I could erase the memory, of hate I would
Upon all the humans, of this torn world;
This is expressly how I feel;
This would be a new world for me;
And why would I erase, this the pr...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, blessing, confidence, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPeace- -

...I tranquility
I’m calm
I restfulness
I’m peace and quiet
Peacefulness I am
I quiet in quietude
I’m silence
I’m soundlessness a hush
I’m calm
In the calmness of the Lord
PEACE

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Categories: class assignment, analogy, bereavement, confidence, peace,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberThe Phone Rings At 3 a M At the Doorly Zoo- -

...At the Doorly Zoo a well-trained guerrilla waves
It’s 3:00 am
Gorilla flung his manure like a combat soldier in guerrilla warfare
No one but the ground keepers are there, MAN DOES IT SM...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, animal, corruption, environment,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLamented Loneliness Yet Not Alone

...Lamented Loneliness yet Not Alone
I am more than a mere man
I dress in the spiritual clothes of Jesus
I need prayer and redeeming grace
I am related to God the Father and the Lord Jes...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, blessing, celebration, how
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPantoum Believe It Or Not-I Love Everybody- -

...PANTOUM Believe it Or NOT-I LOVE EVERYBODY- -

At my old place of employment for many years
I was in charge of the jobs start up meetings
and in this informal business meeting
my star...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, appreciation, engagement, how
Form: Pantoum

Premium MemberDirty Am I, Was I Until Jesus Washed Me Clean- -

...Dirty am I, was I until Jesus Washed Me Clean
O’ but that I have been lost
Trapped incumbent to this storm
Tattered and bathed in my own sin
until Jesus came and washed me clean
Trapped incumben...
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Categories: class assignment, analogy, confidence, forgiveness, how
Form: Pantoum

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