Fault Lines of a Life
We drift, unaware—
years merge into moments,
promises fall by the wayside, collect dust.
If we could backtrack every decision,
each fault line of our days,
would we discover we really lived
or just shuffled in place?
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Categories:
examination, 9th grade,
Form: Lyric
Children of Examination Malpractice
It’s been corrupted,
Even the learning systems in normality altered
The Innocence of examinations
Has swerved
Into Guilt of examinations
Exam malpractices everywhere!
Many students have sown the seed of levity
Which has grown into complacency
They, being carefree,
Are shamefully confident
They would cheat to the bull!
Assured their money could in qualms set them free.
Examiners have likewise injured the education routines of our country,
Even
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Categories:
examination, 11th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Final Examination
A best friend is
A. One who spills your most intimate secret
B. One who helps you spend your money until you empty your pocket
C. One who is with you if you have budget
D. One who takes you to the baddest experiences you could not forget
E. All the choices are correct
A
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Categories:
examination, fun,
Form: List
Examination of a Rogue's Soul
The soul withers from sobs within the heart
to die in dark sorrow that it has wrought
whispy shadows that refuse to depart
will claim the lonely realm by what was sought
ardor's passions an ornamental string
to dangle on the heart a shiny desire
words to lovers and the comfort they bring
to feed the yearnings their hearts admire
so smoothly bent
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Categories:
examination, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
The Examination
Listless images swirl up from tangled seaweed.
Instead of going home to study
a youth stayed on at a topless bar.
This reoccurring nightmare is a parody,
a Dahliesque floor show of every
melting, pants down moment.
Unschooled for future-shock, ill-equipped
for long forgotten questions;
scruffy owls hoot in an empty lecture hall
as a mind reacts with a jittery dread.
A lost post-graduate thesis
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Categories:
examination, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Examination
Listless images swirl up from tangled seaweed.
Instead of going home to study
a youth stayed on at a topless bar.
This reoccurring nightmare is a parody,
a Dahliesque floor show of every
melting, pants down moment.
Unschooled for future-shock, ill-equipped
for long forgotten questions;
scruffy owls hoot in an empty lecture hall
as a mind reacts with a jittery dread.
A lost post-graduate thesis
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Categories:
examination, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Art of Cross Examination
Add a in b
Multiply c with d
Divide e with g
Compare and contrast p
You will get t.
Note. You have mastered it.
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Categories:
examination, art, extended metaphor, math,
Form: Rhyme
Heading Home
From the window of my father’s car
Golden hairs upon my arm,
corn silks blowing in the wind,
Wave goodbye to summer.
Hair, now gold to silver grain
Receding now,
I’m leaving, once again.
A thumbing mind goes flipping past
Garages, stores, and street-lamps, fast
as ages mirrored in the storefronts
Move my life’s reflection through
each passing windows' glass
Lying on
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Categories:
examination, appreciation, day, dream, farewell,
Form: Free verse
5000 Years From the Now We Know
5000 Years from the Now We Know
David J Walker
5000 years from
the now we know
Who will unearth our bones
For another final examination
As the scholar's flock
To the dig site
For their share of the
Trove of information
At best
They may only guess
At what were our expectations
With antiquated technologies
And 21-century information.
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Categories:
examination, analogy, history,
Form: Rhyme
Examination Malpractice
It’s a dreadful virus that has become an epidemic
Just like cankerworm, it has eaten our educational fabrics
Our educational system is anemic
But there is a remedy; together we all can fight against this social malady.
We need extreme energy; in other to restore examination sanity
We should resist corrupt practices, especially bribery
If we don’t fight against it then
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Categories:
examination, education,
Form: Rhyme
Examination
Examination
The clock is ticking...
Sweat on my hands,
Making it difficult to write.
Nerves kick in...
Suddenly the ground starts shaking, l guess the answers won't come l forgot what l studied....
Eyes wander to the next table, what a pity! She too is stuck, l scratch my head hoping to find clues to solving this equation infront of me...
The
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Categories:
examination, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Exam Hall
Exam hall -
Silence reigns,
Minutes crawl,
Boredom drains,
Pens fly,
Legs ache,
Kids sly,
No break,
Nails chewed,
Heads scratched,
Answers spewed,
Or hatched.
Collect sheets,
Time is up,
Test completes,
Let's wind up.
(2 or 3 syllables per line)
11.22.19
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Categories:
examination, school, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Hold Yourself Up
i cannot stare too deep
into the game you're playing.
i cannot stand too close
to the dragon you're slaying.
erase the markings of
scars that have haunted
let love rule and flow
as a mighty river of truth
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Categories:
examination, change,
Form: Free verse
Route To Wassce
ROUTE TO WASSCE
As I step my first leg in Grade 12 race,
My thoughts begin to focus more on WASSCE
As it get closer and closer each day
Confused I become on the way
I’m I well prepared to avoid dismay?
Would exams be in May?
Or would it will be as early as April?
Cuz I spent my Grade
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Categories:
examination, books, celebration, character, courage,
Form: Couplet
Categories:
examination, addiction, freedom, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
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