Life Exam Poems

Existential Exams

By Mark D. Stucky
Math problems, essay questions,
multiple choice, fill in the blanks…
Many are the tests we take
from grade school through grad school.

We also encounter...

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The sign you hold:
   a) says either stop or slow
   b) is a matter of perception
   c) makes for...

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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...

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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,...

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Tick-tock,
tick-tock,
Every wasted second,
A step down from the top.

Memorize every word,
Understand every line,
Solve every question,
Be productive all the time.

"I'm not prepared"
"I need to study more"
Sleep deprived...

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Final exams are fast approaching,
tension levels raising and raising...
Confidence level going down,
students working till night from the dawn..
Maths is difficult yet interesting,
physics completed still worrying,
chemistry...

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Exam!
Why is there exam in this world
I am stress out everyday
To meet the expectation
Of the people around

Exam!!
Why I am so hard to even sigh
I keep...

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The Exam
Holding a pen sweat running down
my cheeks
The piece of paper in front of me
looking like hieroglyphs
Stressed by my empty mind
I hear whispers behind
Time running...

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We will sit at the tables in the entrance hall
Waiting patiently for the sea of white faces to arrive
Anxious, nerves are frayed  – and...

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Exams come,go and come again..
But life is the exam main!
.
As candle is useful when it Melts..
Likewise,Life is life when it tilts..
.
Sun is nothing If doesn't...

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THE EXAM
who could see what i believe
exam is what no more to see
instead to test it get men to grief
where o exam is your brief


can...

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a soft quick knock
then entrance of smock and laptop
a quick greet, small talk, then
"Well, why are you here today?"

"Well Doc", I say, "I've noticed this...

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The trees pace around the morning
with small steps, measured,
unconsciously wearing small circles
above my wind-tossed hair as I
warm a steel bench with the
patience of prey wrapped...

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The world is an examination hall
Where All-knowing God is the Principal.

Preachers of the Truth are the teachers
They love the world and all its creatures.

The students...

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Months of work coming to a final test, 
three hour papers in hot rooms, it’s no jest.
Classics, linguistics, fine art, all for me,
revision time seems...

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