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 PipelineThe 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
It's Not Too LateOne seat back from where I sat in almost every class was where this wimpy, red-haired nerd, I’d hated from the start,
Made a point of sitting, thinking - if he played it right - because...
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Categories:
classmate, inspirational, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
After Serving Six Long Hard Years At Methacton State PenitentiaryAfter 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 FrankMy 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 ShotgunI 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 JobThat 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
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White TrashChief 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
On Small Town Life - Both Audio and Text VersionsFifty-seven years ago, when I was but a child, I thought my mom and dad were pretty cool.
The only things they ever did that really ticked me off were - make me take a bath…and...
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Categories:
classmate, family, parents,
Form:
Narrative
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King JuniorThe 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 LaneIn 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 4Steve: 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
Life On the Planet NabinMy 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
What Beauty IsBeauty Is…
The sharp crunch of a leaf,
red-yellow under your feet
the crisp air of morning hours
the endless colors of all flowers
the exciting sensation of deja-vu
quand tu marches dans une nouvelle rue
it’s the gentle pounding that you...
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Categories:
classmate, beautiful, beauty, creation, earth, faith, god, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
Nostalgia and Teachers' DayThrough 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 StillAs 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 EffectCause 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 RapperYear 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
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
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior First PartFive 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
Ended To Soon..Dedication To Tyisha MillerA beautiful human being,
Lost her life, and no one seems to know why
If only her silence could be broken, If only her
Soul would wander around and deliver the untold
The story no one could tell,
The...
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Categories:
classmate, death, dedication, friendship, life, loss, sadday, life,
Form:
Free verse
NeedA long line progressing slowly, the long line to receive results for the students. Apala was standing almost at the end of the line. Pulok was standing in front of her. Pulok is her classmate,...
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Categories:
classmate, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Percipient Papa Guru Courtesy Deux Darling Goo Goo DollsImpossible mission for yours truly,
sans this dada to validate
those two most significant mentors,
no paternal biased trait,
(who I helped beget) enroute to great
adventures toward enormously
enviously exciting destinations,
thus birth father doth ululate
eternal burning tears boding
indefinite fare thee...
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Categories:
classmate, education, environment, father daughter, home, judgement, truth,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
An Unrepentant Spitball Marksmanthe upshot constituted a figurative straw
that broke the virtual camels back
where yours truly fingered as scape goat,
who meekly, passively, and subserviently
...
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Categories:
classmate, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse