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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When Its Time To Be OldWhen, once, it was time to be young,
as a child, you climbed a tree up to
its leafy crown,
chased fireflies as your grandparents
sat in Adirondack chairs in the
summer garden,
in your teenage years, your strong and
swift legs...
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Categories:
high school, age, friendship, fun, god,
Form: Free verse
The Good Old Days
Twirling around the glossy smooth floor
Racing with friends on roller-skates
Tossing my hair as I glide across the room
Feeling so certain that this is my destiny
Weaving through the crowd lithely, swiftly
Smiling at everyone, my heart filled...
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Categories:
fun, high school, teen
Form: Free verse
Mighty CaseyParody of "Casey At The Bat" with apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The outlook was quite brilliant for the high school stud that year—
the senior prom was coming up, and Casey had no fear.
The babe he...
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Categories:
12th grade, high school,
Form: Couplet
RespectWhy should we respect a saint who eats apples while his neighbors are hungry
Why should we respect a saint who sits with Dons and stands with corrupt Politicians
Why should we respect a saint who is...
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Categories:
high school, 12th grade, character, emotions,
Form: Free verse
shopping lists*(a poem in Senryus)*
You don’t have to count,
when you lose a boyfriend, you
know. There was just one.
He was gone before
I knew it - he wasn’t, you know,
tied up or anything.
For a moment I
toy with saying,...
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Categories:
high school, 11th grade, boyfriend, environment,
Form: Senryu
HER SPIRIT SUBLIME-IMAGERY-
Categories:
dedication, god, high school,
Form: Couplet
coyoteI used to be excited on Fridays.
I used to have interesting plans.
My weekends were non-stop hectic,
my time was in high demand.
Now I live in repeated patterns,
I’m a servant to boring routines.
A fleshy teenage automaton,
waiting for...
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Categories:
high school, 11th grade, endurance, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
My First Day At High SchoolThere I was in a terrified state
my first day at High School
how would I cope, stammer and all
as kids can be really cruel
The headmaster had quite a reputation
6 feet 4, former boxer with wide shoulder
so...
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Categories:
day, high school, memory,
Form: Rhyme
2 MikeyPoor Mikey
gave everything he had
for fifteen minutes under lights
(and they are expensive lights).
He went down not once but twice
in the same game with the same head
(his only one).
Rules meant to protect him
from returning to...
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Categories:
conflict, football, high school,
Form: Free verse
to name a thingEach of us, will move to name a thing
before or as it comes and is gone again.
In that moment we are here by proof
of exchange only
in the memory of having so been...
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Categories:
high school, absence, anxiety, depression, future,
Form: Free verse
HELL OF A PLACEWalking down the road with all the people of my age
Makes me feel like a stranger at this hell of a place
I try to fasten my pace, so I could spare a minute or...
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Categories:
high school, anxiety, courage, depression, high
Form: Free verse
Reassuring smilesSmiling at old folks
to reassure them you're
not a teenage thug.
Even though I'm in
my school uniform and look
like Mary Poppins.
I don't like talking
in front of a group of teens
- they're so judgmental.
...
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Categories:
11th grade, high school,
Form: Senryu
We have jung“Jung” seems to be a small word,
Doesn’t it?
But it’s explication is way more deeper
Than the poems people write .
Jung is a Korean word.
It refers to the connection between two people that can’t be severed,...
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Categories:
high school, best friend, betrayal, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
adventure, creation, high school,
Form: Free verse
My Beautiful HeadacheYou are such a beautiful headache;
so hard to get rid of.
My body wishes you would leave,
but there's no cure to ward you off
Yet,your face is like a drug;
one look, & my troubles...
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Categories:
high school, allegory, conflict, crush, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of High School Poems
Definition | What is High School in Poetry?