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.
Elegy for a Fallen ComradeThe 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 ShootingPrologue:
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,
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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Categories:
bereavement,
Rest in Power KamehamehaAfter 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,
Elegy to a promised landIn 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 AdeniranI 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,
BeckyBecky, 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 MatesThey 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 GoOh, 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 TranslationPerhat 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 LostSaudade 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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Categories:
anger, angst, anxiety, death,
To Those I Have Lostwith 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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Categories:
angst, anxiety, death, death
Elegy For a Little Girl, LostElegy 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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bereavement, daughter, death, eulogy,
Elegy For a Little Girl, LostElegy 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,