Long Classmate Poems
Long Classmate Poems. Below are the most popular long Classmate by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Classmate poems by poem length and keyword.
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
classmate, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
thin fractures
Thoughts can be thin fractures in the order of things.
Sometimes my dorm room seems a sterile sarcophagus, like an accusation, or an interrogation about my romantic choices, with nothing warm or inviting there. Sometimes I’ve...
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Categories:
classmate, drink, forgiveness, integrity, morning, romance, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
After Serving Six Long Hard Years At Methacton State Penitentiary
After serving six long hard years at Methacton State penitentiary...
as mini reunion number
XLV fast approaches
Saturday, April 30th, 7:00 pm
until 10:00 pm
at The Trappe Tavern, 416 West
Main Street, Trappe, PA 19426
regarding graduating...
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Categories:
classmate, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Eulogy For Frank
My father died prematurely while away on
a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart
I never doubted he loved me, would have liked me,
(not the same thing), adult to...
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Categories:
classmate, hero,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Riding Sixties Shotgun
I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
classmate, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
That Is Your Job
That is your job, the mama tells us at school.
We feed her child breakfast, lunch, and an after school snack free of charge.
We give her child a safe place to be, while she has seven...
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Categories:
classmate, children, mother, mother daughter, mother son, philosophy,
Form:
Prose
THE RUMOR
RUMORS USUALLY BEGAN BY SOMEONE SO FIXATED ON ANOTHER PERSONS LIFE IT COULD BEGAN ON THE SCHOOL YARD SOMETHING AS SMALL AS BEING JEALOUS THAT YOUR CLASSMATE HAS A SHINING NEW INK PEN WITH A...
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Categories:
classmate, allah,
Form:
Naat
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White Trash
Chief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”
As Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got brilliant idea
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua
putrid offal getup.
Missus Shaner (talon clawed,
shriveled relic...
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Categories:
classmate, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses
Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses
Ever since second grade
an ever stronger prescription
for nearsightedness donned my countenance,
cuz myopia (inherited courtesy
both parents) rendered me 'As Blind as a Bat' .
For some reason,
I wanted side arms
that wrapped behind...
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Categories:
classmate, 12th grade, adventure, age, anxiety, class, fear,
Form:
Free verse
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
The revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the revered Martin Luther King Junior
honored as benevolent demigod figure
to...
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Categories:
classmate, abuse, age, america, angel, appreciation, birthday, black
Form:
Free verse
Names From Memory Lane
In my earliest years, I had a best friend classmate named "Yank'.
Back then, I didn't care where he got his name, but now I do. To this day, ...
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Categories:
classmate, childhood, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 4
Steve: This sounds like the traditional Hindu caste system. I get it; all that Kama Sutra stuff.
John: You mean Kama Sutra IPA? It’s a local brew. Not bad.
Steve: Douche bag say wha?
John: Wha?
Steve: Please continue,...
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Categories:
classmate, allegory, society,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Roomeight
In Elysian Heights, Room 8 stands strong,
as a blessed place for a furlong purrloin whisk-along a ride-along comforting face,
where memories of childhood days belong,
a classmate, a friend, roommate_in our youthful race, ("Room 8") was...
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Categories:
classmate, 6th grade, adventure, america, angel, baptism,
Form:
Rhyme
Thrill to craft poetry with motives simon-pure
Thrill to craft poetry with motives simon-pure
Analogous to beckoning
think fickle finger of fate doth allure
gussied up with
windswept orange coiffure
tantalizes like a kid
in a candy store to explore
amidst treasure trove of words galore
recollecting when...
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Categories:
classmate, 6th grade, 7th grade, anger, autumn, books,
Form:
Free verse
Life On the Planet Nabin
My child, a baby Ziger, or a zigoid, introverted when I asked him how many apple’s he’d had to eat today, since it was nearly his birthday and we Ziger’s enjoy a plentiful fruit harvest...
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Categories:
classmate, birthday, character, future, health, life, planet, science
Form:
Haibun
My Salewa
My S-a-l-e-w-a
Before you say “I do”
Think deeply before given your precious life
To that person you think you love….
Since marriage is not worth rushing in, for rushing out sake
Since it is not lived in other...
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Categories:
classmate, life, romance, wedding, life, time, marriage, giving,
Form:
Free verse
Nostalgia and Teachers' Day
Through the long gone years, I have much grown…
From a young schoolboy to a present day aging crone…
But in my mind, I am as I have always been…
All through the years and after all that...
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Categories:
classmate, appreciation, change, childhood, growing up, history, hope,
Form:
Narrative
The Night Time Stood Still
As the sun began to set, cursed words smeared the screen
A familiar face vanished everywhere I once loathed to see it
It was a heady rush I never dreamed of experiencing
The taste of iron on my...
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Categories:
classmate, introspection,
Form:
Prose
Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect
In my youth I did not understand the difference between love and lust. Always seeking out Love's location but never to locate. Then our eyes met upon a faithful winds gust. That was...
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Categories:
classmate, devotion, engagement, first love, husband, love, strength,
Form:
Pastoral
Inspired By a High School Rapper
Year after year, young people inspire me.
The freshness of youth brings forth curiosity.
Diversity and personality scream, it seems –
Noisily, boisterously, playfully, hope knocks.
Each child has amazing talents to unlock.
Shy ones work in silence while some...
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Categories:
classmate, inspirational, teacher, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Bad day at Stop And Shop
Jack had just escaped the local slammer
He’d struck the sheriff's car with a hammer.
He tried to look normal, in an aisle in Stop and Shop
But he wondered who might be an undercover cop.
Sally...
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Categories:
classmate, chocolate, confusion, hilarious, humor, humorous, mom, mother,
Form:
Lyric
THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD Part 1, from THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD
THE WOMAN WHO COULD EAT WOOD
Who defied science?
The Woman Who Could Eat Wood had.
How and why at first no doctor could say
to her mom and dad.
Years later the doctors had discovered that after...
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Categories:
classmate, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lady Tiger and the Mouse
***Based upon an actual incident a friend had that had a "just" outcome!***
"The Lady Tiger And The Mouse"
She was returning home late one evening
in her pretty new black and red dress!
(He was hiding and waiting...
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Categories:
classmate, anti bullying, courage, irony, life, smart, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Plagued by Memories
I waxed the floor too carefully—
the classroom still blue with youth I left behind.
Fresh chalk lined up like teeth I inhaled and exhaled.
Suspicion wore me like a suit, choking tight at the neck.
The sun laughs,...
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Categories:
classmate, anger, anxiety, blue, depression, goodbye, leadership, words,
Form:
Free verse
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior First Part
Five score minus eight years ago
January eighteenth two thousand twenty one
father of civil rights movement
the revered Martin Luther King Junior honored
as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppressed African American population
without whose bold risks
and subsequent brutal assassination...
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Categories:
classmate, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
Free verse