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Drop Out Poems - Poems about Drop Out


College Drop Out
Drops hit my head. I don’t move. I close my eyes and feel and count. When I eat dinner, I help them organize the spoons. After a productive day, I go back to my room. Back to counting the drops of water. The guards wander the halls, but they ignore us if we count quietly. This is like a college dorm, haha! Except,...

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Categories: drop out, angst, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Drop Out You Shall
At school played silly truancy, Back came with hateful pregnancy! She’d just intended The Irksome. For being by custom troublesome’…. But it was all too venturesome, Beauty giving a son handsome Plus one more prize – The Sad Gift: From school Owner did her lift; From the rest permanent shift, Official reason: ‘Spend thrift’… Never again be present, As...

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Categories: drop out, adventure, education, image, mother,
Form: Rhyme



Tune In, Drop Out
Re-live the nineteen-sixties? Don't! We all imagine mop-tops, surf, free love and sun, conveniently forgetting Watts, De Gaulle, the Tet Offensive, Audrey Hepburn's nun. Imagine! Mop-tops, surf, free love - and sun! Transistor radios, Italian suits! The Tet Offensive? Audrey Hepburn? None of those can overshadow kinky boots! Transistor radios. Italian suits the spirit of...

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Categories: drop out, nostalgia,
Form: Pantoum
Drop-Out Dream
I've done it again, I've overslept I've failed to finish my homework I've missed so many classes that I can't recall which room that I am supposed to go to and maybe I'm on the wrong floor and oh god the wrong building? and besides they all look the same and besides the last time I found it all the seats were taken... The...

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Categories: drop out, education, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Drop Out
She made the mistake She left her dreams behind Her father gone Her mother lost in her own world Baby brother became her own Partime worker Age 16 She started to pray day and night When things just didn't turn out right Hoping a guardian angel would stop by The day came sooner than she thought Hope can alive She walked on...

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Categories: drop out, dream, faith, family, day,
Form: Free verse




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