(a throwback poem from High school)
I'm the most popular girl in my homeroom.
Of course, that's my own bedroom -
cause we're on COVID lockdown, zoom.
My bedroom is the math class, which doubles as the gym,
it triples as the theater - you should see the shows I'm in.
They're only in my mirror, so my cats get free admission.
My sudden popularity's due, to a matter of attrition.
If I play my cards right, I can probably be prom queen
I'll hold the ceremony in the garden, so the travesty goes unseen.
Categories:
homeroom, school, student,
Form: Rhyme
home
four letters
homely
similar
home run
two words
homesick
a feeling
homebody
me
homework
glad that chapter of my life is over
Homeplate
oh yes!
homeroom
no worries
homophone
to, too and two
Categories:
homeroom, word play,
Form: Free verse
Distractions in eight grade homeroom are complete today
As I see the finger shaped glasses on my friend Gray
He always pushes the teacher near the edge of the cliff.
I see her biting her fingernails, her hair and her lip.
Categories:
homeroom, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
I want to go with a group of friends on a quest
Find the wonders this world has to give
Instead I’m in homeroom taking a test
On a life someone else went out and lived
While I am not able to live my own
What's the point in life if you aren’t guaranteed to enjoy it
Everyone’s face is in their phone
While a sunrise has the outside lit
There was a time I wanted to die
I feared I no longer had a reason to be here
But that was all a lie
Because dying was never the intent of my fear
My fright came from the thought of not finding something to love
But I have fallen for sunrises and skyscrapers
Beautiful waterfalls and elegant white doves
And amusement parks filled with screams of joy from the children on the roller coaster
I Never Wanted To Die I Just Didn’t Know How To Live
Categories:
homeroom, america, anxiety, for teens,
Form: Rhyme
I havn't seen my childhood crush
for sixty years, and memory is faithless,
for I loved her at the age of eight,
and lost her at sixteen; those two events
are silent sentinals presiding
over yin and yang of one sweet paradise
of hope a lesser Milton could have seized,
forsaking angels for Joanne.
But then she never would have owned
my consciousness, and though she sent it
spinning through the cosmos
on that final summer night,
she lacked the strength to wipe away
the gift of her eight years before,
confessing in our homeroom
that she knew I had been watching.
And does she know, I watch her still,
soft curls a sacrament for me
that dusty years may not defile?
Yet I still smile; the cosmos, too,
is in another place, and time and space
defy all rules of memory
and sweet regret.
~
Categories:
homeroom, childhood, sweet, sweet,
Form: Free verse
There are times here on Soup it feels just like that..
And that is not a bad thing as I will soon chat..
We have class clowns that keep the smiles wide..
Way back in the class is Dave with his green hair he wants to hide..
In my homeroom sits a sultry Destroyer with rebel ties..
Another chair holds a Dreamweaver with ocean eyes..
The front row holds the sweet Nikko and lovely Wilma at the top of their class..
Then there is the flirty Sweetheart writing love notes that she will soon pass..
And don't forget our friend Chris whose small assignment is now as long
as War and Peace..
Ahh now if you're searching for me I'm in the nurse's office , seems the
jealous boyfriends wouldn't let me be...
Written by "Me"
for Chris's Contest...
Categories:
homeroom, friendship, funny, class, class,
Form: Rhyme
after watching films like “The Killing Fields,”
“Apocalypse Now,” “Full Metal Jacket” &
beginning to think long and hard about what
his country had really been doing in Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos,
this high school senior refuses in early morning
home room
to stand up & say
The Pledge of Allegiance
to the flag hanging from the corner of the wall,
where all his classmates, holding their hands over their hearts
mutter along the words that they have repeated
day in & day out,
since they can remember---
his homeroom teacher takes him aside when the rest sit down &
he is told that he needs to say the pledge just like the rest of the kids,
but he sits there staring up at the teacher with
fierce eyes that the teacher sees other classmates already being inspired by at that very moment,
and he utters simply,
“i’m not pledging any longer.”
Categories:
homeroom, life, teacher, teacher, high
Form: Free verse
Oh, I can’t believe who I now see.
Is that really you my dear Stephanie?
You have changed so much in such a short time.
Right now, you appear absolutely sublime!
Remember that jerk in our high school homeroom?
He was the one who always called you “Boom-Boom”.
He kept saying you were a fat and ugly cow.
Wait until he sees what you are looking like now.
You sacrificed those calories, and you look great.
He does not know that you are married and lost weight.
Well, he won’t be seeing you on this occasion.
He committed crimes and was sentenced to prison.
So Lisa, you went off to go to college.
You were always one for gaining knowledge.
It is so nice to see you again.
Everyone remembers the class valedictorian.
Have you met anyone interesting as of late?
I remember when you went out with that blind date.
He left you at that movie, that conniving rat.
Don’t worry Lisa. You can do better than that.
Categories:
homeroom, friendship, people, high school,
Form: Rhyme
Remember that jerk in our high school homeroom?
He was the one who always called you “Boom-Boom”.
He kept saying you were a fat and ugly cow.
Wait until he sees what you are looking like now.
He does not know that you are married and lost weight.
You sacrificed those calories, and you look great.
Well, he won’t be seeing you on this occasion.
He committed crimes and was sentenced to prison.
Categories:
homeroom, school, high school,
Form: Rhyme
2009
WRITTEN BY: LORRIE DENTMON
DATE: JULY 25th, 2009
TITLE: DEAR CLASS OF 1987
DEAR CLASS OF 1987
RUSTY VANN CAMP,
WHY HIS NAME I'VE NEVER FORGOT,
POPULAR BY NO MEANS,
BUT I REMEMBER HE WAS PICKED ON A LOT,
I TRIED TO BE A FRIEND,
TO THOSE WHO HAD NOT MANY,
MOST OF YOU JUST PASSED HIM BY,
NOT THINKING HE TOO HAD FEELINGS,
I'LL NEVER FORGOT THAT MORNING,
WHEN THE HOMEROOM CLASS BELL RANG,
WE WERE ALL IN OUR ASSIGNED SEATS,
MRS. KRAFT WAS PREPARING TO TEACH,
SHE WAS INTERRUPTED,
CAUSE THE PRINCIPAL HAD AN ANNOUNCEMENT,
RUSTY WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY,
BECAUSE HE 'D HAD AN ACCIDENT,
WE HAD A FEW MOMENTS OF SILENCE,
THOUGH NOT MANY DID IT SEEM TO BOTHER,
BUT I STILL HAVE THE NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS,
WHERE HE HAD FLIPPED HIS VOLKSWAGON,
DEAR CLASS OF 1987,
HAVE WE ALL GROWN UP JUST A LITTLE,
AND DO YOU EVER REGRET THE TIMES,
YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN ANOTHER.
Categories:
homeroom, lifeclass, class,
Form: I do not know?
Dude, guess what?
Yesterday, I got to go through my dad’s dealership
and pick out a sweet ride for my 16th birthday!
It’s a convertible, dude
It’s a hot rod, dude
It’s red, dude
It’s a hot, hot rod
And it’s got chrome-covered wheels!
Wait until the guys get a load of this!
Dude, this weekend, wanna go get drunk?
Ah! Dude! I totally saw my wellness teacher
at the Rush yesterday! She was
benching more than half the football team!
I could totally take her though!
I’m not going to let a woman tell me what to do!
Dude, I better retake the ACT this Saturday
I totally need a 16 to play on the football team
at Northwestern Kentucky State Community College!
Remind me not to drink too much after the game!
And we’re totally gonna smoke Blount County! Huh! Huh! Huh!
Dude, this guy totally looked at me funny
in the bathroom between classes! Man, we gave him the
hugest swirly! You shoulda been there!
Dude, I got practice after school today
but afterwards, you wanna go roll that ***** in Bio class?
Whaddya say?
Categories:
homeroom, funny, life, parody, school,
Form: Dramatic Monologue