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Detention Poems - Poems about Detention

Detention Poems - Examples of all types of poems about detention to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for detention.
Never Really Gone
...That ulcer in his consciousness bleeding to be heard A canker of a muted past abscessing every word Cold sores of detention that fade but never cure A virus of his hopes and dre......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, sick,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Defying Predictability
...With hair ablaze, a jester unconfined, I scoffed at the mundane, its life declined. My wardrobe, a riot, a rhapsody bold, Mismatched socks my standard, stories untold. In classrooms of tedium, ......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, angst, character, conflict, humor,
Form: Rhyme
My Dog Ate My Homework
...I'm going to tell you a story, I swear its 100% true.. About what happened to my homework, and why it was overdue. You see my dog ate my homework, oh no! oh gosh! I stare at it in horror, its been......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, childhood, dog, fun, homework,
Form: Rhyme
Troubled Teen
...When I was a kid, I learned to be sad. I wouldn’t cry over lost balloons like I used to. But rather, I learned to be solemn before I even knew what that meant. When I was a kid, I learned ho......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, angst, depression,
Form: Free verse
Scared, Really Scared
...It’s there in the darkest corner of his room there where he takes off his shoes and socks and just leaves them the place that his Mom said that she is going to leave as is from now on it’s just s......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry



Ramblin woman
...So what was it you wanted? I need you to be honest, I'm tired of all the pouting, So I'm getting geared up and going out scouting. In bound and determined, To stop all this damn hurtin. Stand u......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, humor, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Break Free Opposing
...Break Free (original). I decline to be bathed in abject defeat, I intend to break free. My endeavour isn’t dead, intellect serves as a panacea for me My muse and I must find impassioned advoca......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, prison,
Form: Rhyme
Should Be News Feed But Is Not
... Government uses foreign gov-loophole and harlots by proxies geo-fence by proximity. Old bedfellow with Politicians and 3 letter agency, no surprise there. Garland and Wray want your pus......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, art,
Form: Prose
Premium Member No More Teacher's Golden Rules
... My teacher, she relies on prevention That is why she puts me in detention Ha-ha, I'll pull the trigger 'Cos this is what I figure She probably believes in 'suspension'......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, student, teacher,
Form: Limerick
Abandoned Infant
...Thank you for giving me life Yet so sorry for abandoning me. The life I battled for and won To acquire life but of a rational one, The first glance and glare From thy fluffy lap, i longed to zo......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Day I Spent In Detention
...For once this is a poem that really happened to me a long time ago. ______________________________________ Sometimes I recall some deed of the past, Why, that day I was really a......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, memory,
Form: Couplet
Last Shot
...Stalking a dream trailing a memory A scent came in focus wafting desire Seized by the moment alluding a time warp Tracking its shadow ambush on fire Covered in greasepaint fear is appr......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Speak Life Abundance and It Is Well--
...Atmosphere burning Souls are hurting Desires need quenching O’ did I mention? I am in detention Locked down in my prayers I speak life abundant and it is all well I speak Life Abun......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, allegory, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Forest
... "The Forest" In the forest we meet strange gods our reflections are seen in their eyes in our dreams we remember them we meet them face on we touch them they d......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Edges of Rhyme
...The Edges of Rhyme I wrote the playbook, watching what they took While the earth shook I could not look In the direction of the Big Book Like a fish caught on a nasty hook Ruminating , ......Read the rest...
Categories: detention, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

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