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School Elegy Poems

These School Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about School. These are the best examples of Elegy School poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Elegy for a Fallen Comrade
The Coca-Cola lamp 
made a circle of light
on the nightstand—
               (soft...

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Categories: elegy, family, forgiveness, i miss



An Elegy About a School Shooting
Prologue:
A new kid joins an already troubled elementary school
He sits alone on the first day, and no one dares to sit next to him
For if...

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Categories: cry, dark, death, deep,

Premium Member An Elegy To The Innocence

Those brilliant smiles lastly seen from you
were echoing waves of final goodbyes
when your school bus needed to go…
Like a complete assurance to return
not an ash...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bereavement,

Rest in Power Kamehameha
After school on my TV screen you were there
Giving me power from my bullies or scratching my hair.
How can I forget how you looked, orange...

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Categories: blessing, culture, devotion, farewell,

Premium Member Elegy to a promised land
In the quiet twilight, we gather here today,  
To honor my dad, remember him, and pray.  
From the promised land, he flew with...

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Categories: america, culture, dad, father,



In Memoriam of Whitney Adeniran
I only have a photograph left.
A preserved moment in time
To serve as a reminder of how things were 
When you and I were present.

In Paradise,...

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Categories: 1st grade, 2nd grade,

Becky
Becky, the Queen
Of the Riding School,
You will be missed
But not forgotten.

Becky, the best horse 
I’ve ever ridden,
Always doing what you
Were asked right away.

Becky, a beautiful...

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Categories: death, horse, memorial,

Mates Just Mates
They grew up side by side two kids in a park
Playing together until the streetlights lightened the dark
Growing as school friends and team mates in...

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Categories: death, death of a

Deanna
“She was your cousin?”
    They would all echo,
        their half-faux-sympathy was pathetic,
   ...

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Categories: 11th grade, bereavement, cancer,

Where Did They Go
Oh, the one on one days of yesterday,
Of boredom and babies and waiting.
Of school mornings and tagging along,
Brown paper bags, school songs.

The blowing of wind...

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Categories: how i feel,

Perhat Turson: Elegy Translation
Perhat Tursun

Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city...

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Categories: elegy, brother, eulogy, magic, prison,

Saudade For Friends I Have Lost
Saudade for friends I have lost

as I get older
I lose more people
every year

more people I knew
have died moving on 
and I mourn their lost friendship

wished...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anger, angst, anxiety, death,

To Those I Have Lost
with the corona virus upon us
I am bracing to hear the news
that so and so has died

I reflect back
on all the people in my life
that...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, anxiety, death, death

Elegy For a Little Girl, Lost
Elegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch

. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .

She was the joy of my youth,
and now...

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Categories: bereavement, daughter, death, eulogy,

Elegy For a Little Girl, Lost
Elegy for a little girl, lost
by Michael R. Burch

. . . qui laetificat juventutem meam . . .

She was the joy of my youth,
and now...

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Categories: elegy, daughter, death, eulogy, funeral,


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