Freshmen Poems - Poems about Freshmen

...In New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that lull her to sleep like lullabies. She has a d......Read the rest...

...When I was a senior in high school, The students below us all knew That we were in charge and a challenge to that Was, naturally, taboo. It felt great to have climbed up that mountain And our ......Read the rest...

...Memories can become blurry, over time, like underdeveloped photographs, or incomplete, like sunlight through blinds. Our lives move ever forward, like the inflexible patterns of stars. Once ......Read the rest...

...We’re shape-shifting, my roommates and I. Transitioning mentally from freshmen and sophomores (nobodies) into juniors (somebodies). We’ve been around, we’re not the new kids anymore. We’re being seen......Read the rest...

...The sonnet of my fresh pen from the century of freshmen, Will the poets be overwhelmed? Meditating to comprehend my stand I couldn't write a couplet for so many years. She left me in a spell wi......Read the rest...

...Hiding under tables Calling someone hitler Church foods and neutered flirting Alone freshmen year Walking in on friends, hanging with fiddling on videos numbing with food 1:10 blink 1:20 un......Read the rest...

...Apology to the missus at nighttime... first day of January two thousand and twenty three. While the wife then in the process of leaving a telephone message for our eldest daughter, (on vacati......Read the rest...

...It’s elko noice to be back in the sprawling, claustrophobic infinity of college. I love the energy, the hubbub, the moving ins, the lines for everything and the freshmen’s hovering parents. We loi......Read the rest...

...I latest piece is too long the poem section - so it's in "Short Stories." It's called "the gardens." I could shorten it - but why? *shrug* Here's the link: https://www.poetrysoup.com/sh......Read the rest...

...We’re (my pose is gathered this Saturday morning because I made a pancake and bacon breakfast) listening to a Britney Spears song, off one of Leong’s playlists. “I remember when I was about 8,” I say......Read the rest...

...I’m in a psychology class and as part of it we filled out several, detailed, personality evaluations. They said these were helpful in forming a psychological profile of the freshmen classes each year......Read the rest...

...A wall of Jacobean era lattice-windows line my dorm room - my private eyes. How many freshmen have watched the gilt harvest moon from this seat? I keep them open, for cool breezes, and the c......Read the rest...

...(*This piece may have a limited audience - but don’t ALL my pieces??*) Some of the best advice from my Fro-Co (seniors who volunteer as freshman advisors): If you’re stuck in your room (due to ......Read the rest...

...I finished moving into my residential college as a storm began - fat raindrops, as big as coconuts, falling from a black and fouling sky. These northerners were acting like a "tropical storm" (He......Read the rest...

...To say I'm excited about going to college is like saying Godzilla is big - you don't get the complete picture - you don't see the buildings crumbling and civilians running for their lives. Leaving fo......Read the rest...