Will End TooAs I sit by myself in a room full of
Strangers,
I listen to the cacophony , The Chaos of
Voices, laughter and conversations ;
It feels very familiar,
and I can't help but wonder how soon it
Will end .
And again after a few...
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Categories:
high school, 12th grade, absence, childhood,
Form: I do not know?
WATERED LIFELife's no banked river...
Life's roving waves frothing shores...
Life's oceanic......
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Categories:
high school, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Haiku
IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY
IN THE HEAT OF DAY
A peaceful warm day.
Scents of flowers fill the air;
So do summer flies!
...
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Categories:
dance, flower, high school,
Form: Haiku
High School ReunionMy high school reunion:
old classmates,
old friends,
old adversaries,
old strangers
meet after decades
trying to discern
who's who,
who's lived,
who's passed,
who's disappeared...
lost youth commemorated...
survival celebrated....
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Categories:
anniversary, high school, remember,
Form: Free verse
Strength?strength they call her fondly
she's courage to some
i hold her hand, let her in
let her show me who i shall be
i hold her hand, let her in
let her guide me through the thorny scene
she stayed, with regret
hidden in neat folds of guilt
she held grief, letting broken trust be built
she held softness, she held...
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Categories:
high school, best friend, faith, feelings,
Form: Free verse
DESPAIR NOTDESPAIR NOT
Root not in despair,
be in the reaping of God’s
fruits of healing grace:
Glorified in your progress,
continue plowing onward:-
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Categories:
high school, cheer up, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Tanka
Lost interestthe songs i dont play anymore
the love i once had for you
it just melted to the floor ..
useless, absurd, what was the point?
A wasted heart given
to the wrong one
it was like a pain felt in my joint
will i ever love again?
I dont know
i guess thats just how
how this world flow.
...
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Categories:
high school, feelings, first love, for
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
high school, 10th grade, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
high school, best friend, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
SUMMER RAINSUMMER RAIN
God cried today
His tears fertilizing
The womb of
Mother Earth:
The wet smell
Of nature’s essence
Saturated the air
As moist breeze blew
Breath of new life
Into dried hopes
Wilted in despair:-
The rainy season
Of life has begun:
Maybe love’s peace
Will hollow her footprints
In the canvassing mud:-
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Categories:
high school, allegory, extended metaphor, high
Form: Prose
not dead yetif it were up to me
i wouldn't be here.
i would have left
a long time ago.
but others expect things of me.
things that i have to do.
and so i do them.
and i'm not dead yet.
from the minute we are born,
we are treated like clay.
carefully handled,
molded by the hands
of each person we come
in contact with.
so i'm sorry...
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Categories:
high school, anger, angst, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Hopping TrainsOn Friday nights we’d sneak into
the railyard and wait
in the shadows
between the floodlights for a train
slow enough for us to hop,
our hands already tingling
with the promise of flight.
We trotted beside the train,
waiting for the right moment
to grab a boxcar’s ladder
and climb to the roof like outlaws—
aware of the danger
and thrilled by it—
as the train...
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Categories:
adventure, fear, high school,
Form: Free verse
The 30th Anniversary Of Graduating From High SchoolI dropped out of high school in August of 1986.
In 1993, that was a mistake that I decided to fix.
I was only fifteen years old when I dropped out.
When I ask people not to make my mistake, there is no doubt.
I studied from April of 1993 to June of 1995 and it was very cool.
I...
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Categories:
high school, anniversary, graduate, school,
Form: Rhyme
A MATHEMATICAL PERSPECTIVE OF JUNETEENTHA MATHEMATICAL PERSPECTIVE OF JUNETEENTH
(Apropos of 1619 To 2025)
In the proud history of Virginia,
1619 was a significant year
In relating to the beginning
Of slavery in the United States.
It has been revealed, however,
That there were slaves present
In the country long before:-
It’s documented that in the year...
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Categories:
allegory, america, high school,
Form: Prose
Fire in the snowYou were there when I needed you the most,
just for you to disappear into the night like a vengeful ghost.
The texts you sent broke my heart,
cause deep down I never wanted us to part.
My biggest Fear,
was for you to disappear,
and for you to pass from sight like fire in the snow.
I...
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Categories:
high school, 8th grade, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of High School Poems
Definition | What is High School in Poetry?