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Dropouts Poems - Poems about Dropouts


A Land of Ripples

...(where I was born)

A land where guns are no longer fired in anger
But in deceitful dreams.
A land where people starve for a peaceful recipe
Till they are no longer hungry.
A land where hypocri...
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Categories: dropouts, analogy, animal, appreciation, assonance,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberTrump's Little 'Read' Book

...The book of Trump is little read for minions are just fools,
As dropouts in the school of life, they don't have any tools
That rise above them cheating friends, to read is off the chart,
Humility ...
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Categories: dropouts, love, political,
Form: Rhyme



Insista Com Talento Persistence and Determination

...En la vida
y
En los negocios
Nada en este mundo
puede tomar el lugar
de la persistencia y de la determinación.

El Talento sólo
pero no es así.
nada es más común
que personas
fracaso
con ...
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Categories: dropouts, business,
Form: Free verse

Reason For Early School Dropouts In the Rural Village-Srilanka

...Reason for early school dropouts in the rural village-Srilanka

The poor knows not where to turn 
when they don't have a proper way to earn,
families are filled with hunger and conflicts
in the ...
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Categories: dropouts, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Rhyme Royal

Things Fall Apart

...i wake up every morning
 questioning my entire existence
 they say i must be persistent 
 but i ask myself is god really present or absent
 you folks say to make it i have to be obedient

Thing...
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Categories: dropouts, absence, conflict, confusion, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry



I Hate Society

...I hate society, I hate society
I hate society for a lot of REASON
Am in a society where society has no VISION
They only have a trend and if you don’t follow that trend
Then You Are  MISSING
And ...
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Categories: dropouts, sympathy,
Form: Ballad

New York City - Vicious Cycle

...Pushed to the edge by reality, yes, these verses will stifle.

A revolving door always present; New York City....Vicious Cycle.

This is a poem about the hardships, and monotony of this age

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Categories: dropouts, abuse, addiction, innocence, new
Form: Couplet

June Pier Ave Hermosa Beach

...Salmon colored skin, extra sensitive,
old '03 40 plus sunscreen sits atop dresser, back home

drunken ex-surfers smell up Hennesey’s and Sharkey’s
well tanned, dirty blond, wasted teeth, flip 
h...
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Categories: dropouts, memory, summer,
Form: Free verse

For Black Girls Who Considered Being Dropouts When Education Wasnt Enough

...Situation #1 
Having it hard your whole life 
didn’t know if u were gone last one 
Sleepless night 
Life 
Deceit 
Your dads gone away 
Your mothers doing her best 
Tryna survive life’s everla...
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Categories: dropouts, black african american, faith,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

More Zany Headlines

...More Zany Headlines

Actual newspaper headlines taken mainly from 
http://www.alphadictionary.com/fun/headlines.html

Poem constructed by Elton Camp

Let us hope that they will soon decide:
“...
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Categories: dropouts, funny, cancer, high school,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNot My Elephant

...That’s not my elephant!
Hanging precariously
From the old Willow tree,
It’s Ella Wainwright’s spaghetti
Each stem expertly woven 
And shaped into an animal of choice,
Something we all did as 2n...
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Categories: dropouts, political,
Form: Narrative

The Earth As It Is

...Everywhere you look around is corrupt. It is because of this egotistical attitude about 
ourselves. Why these bad things always happen, like on the news its always bad, like rape, 
murder, not cari...
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Categories: dropouts, confusioneducation, high school,
Form: Narrative

World

...Winter of revelations
Rationed sunlight
Daylight savings and economic depressions
Lost jobs, welfare schemes, divided families
Drugged teens, abusive deans, suicidal dreams


Mortgages, republ...
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Categories: dropouts, political
Form: Prose Poetry

Boomers

...They were hippies 
and societal dropouts.
Scholars, poets and 
pot smoking draft dodgers.
Civil right activists,
and anti-war protesters.
Patriots and soldiers
fighting an unpopular war.

Re...
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Categories: dropouts, education, history, philosophy, political,
Form: Prose Poetry

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