High School Poems - Examples of all types of high school poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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InnocenceofloveI prayed for you,
A thousand times, in a thousand ways.
But every single moment,
I recounted the days.
Never have I ever forgot to pray.
For which I tried so hard.
If only my eyes could say.
I cried for you,
In...
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Categories:
high school, angel, butterfly, crush, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Life of a teacherWaking up before the sun kisses
Chirping of birds becomes brushed aside
Putting glasses to see better
With unpolished shoes I ride over
With an old beg of mine
Keeping some old books inside
The rusted passage let me in
I walk...
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Categories:
high school, art, career, character, dedication,
Form: Free verse
High School Memories Two Drive insHigh School Memories
(Two Drive-ins)
By Franklin Price
09/08/2024
It matters not how old we are
Or who we have become
We won't forget the friends we had
In the high school that we're from
Though many years have passed us by
When looking...
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Categories:
car, girlfriend, high school,
Form: Rhyme
Outside The Beltway Thoughts On Chiefs vs Ravens September 5, 2024Edgar my dear
Why do you have that spear
Is that your plan?
When in a jam?
Scare the bloody Kansas City yellow and red
When they fight the fowl volture appearing dead
Spirit Haunting
Spirit Daunting...
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Categories:
high school, football, funny, games, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Girls' Grit"I should not go to school today,"
Says every girl who feels this way.
"I've got the monthlies and the cramps,
A flood, a flush, and uterine camps.
My mood swings low, my temper is high.
Nature's tide flows, I...
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Categories:
endurance, girl, high school,
Form: Free verse
Witch from MinnesotaHer spell remains over me 44 years later
Once a bumblebee has kissed the nectar of Snapdragon
The creature is fever of succulence
She says, “You kiss so softly I think it’s a thing with guys with braces
My...
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Categories:
high school, change, childhood, feelings, high
Form: Free verse
Shiny SmilesI sit rotting on my phone
And as I look at the girls on my screen
Straight teeth and shiny smiles
How I long to be what they are
How I long to have a non existent waist and...
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Categories:
high school, anxiety, for teens, high
Form: Free verse
Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocateThough a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...
after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman has taken
campaigning to a whole new level of low.
Beyond...
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Categories:
high school, america, boxing day , celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Old Swimming HoleWas a swimming hole down south
where the bullheads chewed your feet,
Though there's no need to worry
if you didn't go too deep.
There were no steps to...
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Categories:
high school, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
UnderstandingGrowing up so very fast
Moments like these are meant to last
A child only moments before
Now her future unsure
A child still is she
A woman she must now be
Childhood becomes distant
Innocence lost in an instant
Into her hands,...
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Categories:
high school, encouraging, for teens, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Last PageYou were like the last page of an old notebook
Which I doodled on and scribbled on
Torn off
So that others couldn’t see it
Couldn’t peep in
To the place I displayed my soul on
A chapter better...
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Categories:
goodbye, high school,
Form: Free verse
The High School Two StepAnother boy at the high school dance
Seeking love and a little romance
Then the cutest girl smiled
And I bowed quite beguiled
But it ripped out the seat of my pants...
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Categories:
high school, boy, girl, romance,
Form: Limerick
Fluff
Fluffy is how I view myself,
No sitting around for me on a closet shelf!
Teasing me will get you nowhere,
...
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Categories:
high school, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
VerveOh, the 1990's,
songs by Seattle grunge,
and boy band's romanticism.
Daughter was a cheerleader beauty,
blonde effervescence.
Petite strength,
with her smile of enthusiasm,
tossed up in adolescent flight..
Friday night varsity football games,
roaring bonfire for the Homecoming
in October's night of a...
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Categories:
high school, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
ClosureI hate being the 'incident' of your story
Hate how you once made my heart beat so fast
Hate how I get a reminder of you
Now we're just strangers that sometimes walk past.
A memory I can't...
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Categories:
high school, 11th grade, break up,
Form: Rhyme
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