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The Day the Country Died

The Day the Country Died

November 22, 1963
three pm e.s.t
fifth grade 
pa speaker clicks on
“today, at one pm c.s.t
President Kennedy shot
he is dead”
our young substitute teacher
gasps then starts to cry
we are silent
school is dismissed early
buses home, no one speaks
our country has changed

Categories: fifth grade, history,
Form: Free verse

memories of my fifth grade year

I was still writing ARITHMETIC at the top of my papers
When I discovered everyone else had written math.
I said to my twin “they are writing MATH!”
My twin turned her page around and it said MATH.
I was horrified! Why had no one shared this abbreviation with me?

We were in fifth grade, so this was the same

Categories: fifth grade, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry

Summer Going Into the Fifth Grade

Up on our old tar roof, Friday night, I watched football 
the high school was about a mile from my house. 
You could always hear it at night.  
I could see everything and nothing at the same time 
Score: 20-21, hurrahs, screams of young kids, and older kids. 
It was all a roar, a

Categories: fifth grade, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag

Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.

I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me), whose trademark
wit and wisdom hallmark
cardinal characteristics
of posthumous fame and fortune
largesse most likely 
tabby bestowed upon grand kittens -
appended courtesy Facebook
since

Categories: fifth grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Friday Afternoon In Fifth Grade

They are raging with excitement; one is twerking. I ignore it.
Their voices are increasing in volume now, it is the weekend.
Enthusiasm keeps their spirits high; they are thrilled it is Friday.
Higher and higher their voices sing the joyful Friday afternoon song.

So many sounds from twenty-four excited fifth-graders.
Borderline shrieking; it is amazing to hear. I watch,

Categories: fifth grade, 5th grade, school, teacher,
Form: Prose Poetry

Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag

at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School

As a Halloween costume, 
one year during early grade school, 
my father got the brilliant idea 
for his sole son to be dressed 
with one of a kind getup.

Missus Shaner 
(the talon clawed, shriveled 
relic of a dinosaur, 
who taught fifth grade) 
gave me first prize, 
and subsequently felt so

Categories: fifth grade, 5th grade, adventure, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Farewell Fifth Grade

We leave the fifth grade reunion, go to another school
to a place that's much calmer

No more tag or hide and seek or 
gathering in a circle to play Duck Duck Goose.

No more random stories,
from rolling the story cubes.

No more hanging out together as friends. 
After all the years of being with each other,
we are forced

Categories: fifth grade, 5th grade, deep, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Talbot Elementary School Fifth Grade Bands

Mrs. Lightfoot had taught music at Talbot Elementary School for years.
A couple of her pupils excelled in music but most became engineers.
She sat at her desk to muse upon the past after another trying day,
Recalling events that had contributed to the 'dyeing' of her hair gray!

She remembered concerts when the cacophonous din made her wince,
And

Categories: fifth grade, humorous, music,
Form: Rhyme

Fifth Grade

One thing remains from those cherished times.
Memories and keepsakes from my childish crimes.

I will never forget the sweetest girl.
She was my friend, my love, my world.

How funny it was to play and run
Through the water in the midsummer sun.

She was taken in a violent event.
A shotgun now rings in torment.

That is all I have to

Categories: fifth grade, childhood, death, devotion, faith,
Form: I do not know?