Exam Poems

Premium MemberTHE TINY TRIAGE EXAM ROOMS

I'M TRANSPORTED BY MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION AMBULANCE I'M ALWAYS AFRAID SUFFERING SEVERE PANIC DISORDER I TRY AND FOCUS MY MIND HURT MY EYES ARE SWOLLEN PANTING PANIC ATTACKS AGAIN THE NURSES ARE KIND RIGHT AWAY I ASK FOR CHAMPLAIN SERVICES MY HEAD IS IN SO MUCH PAIN ANXIETY SINKS IN THE ROOMS ARE SO SMALL ONLY
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Categories: exam, allah,
Form: Naat

Last Exam: A Sijo of Sorts

My exam is over and everyone is plugged in on phones
earbuds in, except for him, who sleeps, slumped on desk, bag in front
with me the only one who can hear him snoring.
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Categories: exam, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sijo


Exam Essence

Understood! Here's an innovative and creative sonnet about exams, with the constraint of omitting the letter "e":

In hush of rooms, minds cram with facts so bright,
As clocks tick on, anxiety takes flight.
With books in hand and worry in our sight,
Our thoughts align, preparing for our plight.

A swirl of thoughts, a whirl of words,
As minds absorb
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Categories: exam, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet

Studying a Man Also Studying Her

Grace searched Yang with her eyes
And observed only size.
God knows she's not racial;
This Yang is not special...

Soon, she'll test him with food,
As his first exam good:
preferably an oat meal;
How with it he would deal:
If he'll nibble at it
Or pounce on it and split!

But Yang too watches her.
"She has with men gone far,
Mere veil her coat
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Categories: exam, analogy, lust, money, woman,
Form: Rhyme

Flagger Exam

The sign you hold:
   a) says either stop or slow
   b) is a matter of perception
   c) makes for moments of conversation
   d) is a pause in time

When one lane is closed:
    a)	cars must stop and wait for others
    b)	another lane
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Categories: exam, appreciation, environment, humor,
Form: List


Premium MemberSchool

School 

A teacher smiles with the bad news
He won’t get his grades, in their view
He’s wasted ten years attending school
he’s good in PE and the swimming pool

It’s last-ditch, with exams months away
At ten parent’s evenings they failed to say
Gave you no warning until it’s too late
And abandoned your child to their fate

They worry about the
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Categories: exam, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

How An Exam Feels Like

“I walked towards the
 room, thinking that
my grades will bloom.”

“But when I grabbed the 
question paper, 
suddenly my hands 
weren’t stable. ”

“Then I walked toward the
 line thinking it will be
 fine, and now it’s about 
damn time!”

“The first question was 2+2, 
but after I flipped the page,
 it asked me something related
 to square
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Categories: exam, childhood, math, school,
Form: Free verse

Candidate

That's for you A Candidate:
Often glancing at The Date
And on that day Exact Time,
Sometimes jolted by clock's chime
For the still much unprepared
With weakness to be soon bared...

That's for you The Candidate:
Always the first at the gate,
Himself long begun to prime;
To have not done so a crime.
Not a nice story "Exams hard!"
For election "Not on guard"

That's
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Categories: exam, analogy, appreciation, career,
Form: Rhyme

Final Exam Passing Out Parade 3rd Degree

Because this here is your passing 
out parade doth your cap and gown

This here I don't know if you if you are 
aware or know it yet

But also the end of what was once
your student life I hope you kissed
it a fond farewell and goodbye

As your days spent on scholastic 
dissertation theoretical drunken debate
expressing your
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Categories: exam, education, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Free verse

Build Hope-Dam Across Exam

Result of an examination
Must not give botheration
But, promote determination
And plenty of concentration

In case one has failed
Adverse news is mailed
Still one can be bailed
Let not one be assailed

This time one has not passed
One is by failure now bossed
Though one is outclassed
Agony must not be caused

Let "what one person has achieved
Can be done by all"  be
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Categories: exam, student, teacher,
Form: Rhyme

Exam Room Seven

I don’t need your moonshine of lies
Neither do I need your goodbyes
Wondering in the woods of my mind,
Feeling misunderstood, left behind
It’s doing me no good, you see?
Should I stay or should I flee?

I’m always in exam room #7
I’m in heaven
I’m in heaven or hell…
In which I dwell…
Ooh ooh ooh

Agony doesn’t have to be painful
When you’re
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Categories: exam, angst, anxiety, sorrow,
Form: Lyric

The Exam

My eyes swim up from a tangled seaweed
of long forgotten data.
Now I remember that instead of going home
I stayed on at that topless bar. 

I am unprepared for future-shock, ill-equipped
to decipher questions, that like shaggy owls
hoot in a darkening lecture hall.

I used to panic myself awake at such times
but this reoccurring dream has become a
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Categories: exam, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Exam Cheating Paranoia

That sense of paranoia,
Shaking your hands with fear,
After the lecturer draws near,
Feeling the nerves, your eyes blear,
At that time you can't see clear,
You're afraid of differing one year.

She approaches and takes a peep,
Sees the phone as you're trying to beep,
You hear her saying zero is what you'll reap,
Thanks to your neighbor; he's a friend to
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Categories: exam, best friend, brother, change,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDullest Exam Room Ever

Three chubby golden retriever puppies on a calendar. 
Better than the only other slice of color in this exam room.
An abstract with slivers of blue, it might be sky and sea?
If you consider salmon, tan, and gray as colors, 
This is the place for you. I take a photo so I can remember
To always add
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Categories: exam, life,
Form: Free verse

Final Exam Stress

I want to pull my hair out and scream
why does school have to be so mean...

Packets upon packets thrown in my face
I wish my mother would get off my case.

It doesn't matter if there's A's or B's
Those aren't as important as my non-existent degree!

Why must I have so much to do,
I wish I could sue!

I'm
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Categories: exam, 10th grade, anxiety, feelings,
Form: Couplet

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