Make The Grade Poems - Poems about Make The Grade

I left the kettle hissing, A blue serpent coiling in the kitchen. The window’s breath was winter— It kissed me cold, a mother I never had. I was a bone in the mouth of the world, Gnawed down to a pale thought. The mirror grew teeth— It ate my face The room was quiet as paper, Holding its breath for the pen. Ink pooled in...

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Nations, like tides, rise and fall with the numbers, A swelling crowd is a promise and a peril. In youth, the many are labor and armies; In age, they are a weight upon the state. Leaders count heads, not lives, Calculating strength in the aggregate. A vast populace fuels markets, Fills the factories, swells the tax rolls. Policy bows to the short-term reward, Blind...

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Before you came, the nights were long, The house was cold, the world felt wrong. Three boys too young to understand, Why life was harder than we planned. Our trust was gone, our hope was thin, But still you came, and still walked in. No blood to bind, no name to share, Yet somehow we found safety there. You fixed what life had...

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Before you came, the nights were long, The house was cold, the world felt wrong. Three boys too young to understand, Why life was harder than we planned. Our trust was gone, our hope was thin, But still you came, and still walked in. No blood to bind, no name to share, Yet somehow we found safety there. You fixed what life had...

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Your hands would bleed from endless days, Scrubbing floors to hide the stains. Three kids hungry, three kids cold — You broke yourself to keep us whole. The cupboards echoed, barely fed, But somehow we still had a bed. He drank the money, smashed the walls, Turned our nights to drunken brawls. I heard you cry, I heard him yell, I lived with you...

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I think of muddy shoes and grass, Of running fast, too scared to ask. Scraped-up knees and summer rain, Hiding tears I can’t explain. The laughter’s faint, a distant sound, A ghost of life I never found. Old photos show a stranger’s face — I barely know that time, that place. Behind those walls, the cracks ran deep, Secrets I was forced to keep. A...

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To the clouds- a tousled crown of green, a bump in the fabric of land. To the deer- a hall of silent pillars, woven shadows, mighty temples. To the rain- a fleeting flash of green and brown then hush- splattering on fallen needles. ...

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Blinded by the love l had inside My heart has been taken for granted I showed up for them, but no one showed up for me I hid myself in my little dark corner waiting for someone to rescue me I dug myself down with guilt Guilt that surrounds me each and everyday Losing myself has become a part of me I...

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AS THE FLAG UNFURLS* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ the flag unfurls, its colors bold against the waking sky— each star, each stripe a testament to pride, honor, and patriotism. pride, not a shield, is a bridge, linking the stories of brave soldiers, those who once fought in battlefields, their shadows etched in the soil, their courage a whisper in the rustling leaves. honor is a compass, etched in...

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TOO MUCH SIMPLICITY IS ENOUGH* Poem writte for "Too Much Is Enough Poetry Contest," Margarita Lillico, sponsor, August 2, 2025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I sift through the clutter of days, where too much becomes a weight, and enough an inaudible whisper, barely heard above the clamor. I once chased abundance, collecting positions and things like seashells, each one a promise, each one a burden, until excess turned...

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KILLICK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am but a tiny boat, one built from dreams and fears, adrift on a sea of choices. Yet, there you are—my killick, the heavy stone that burrows deep into the sand, keeping my boat afloat in the face of the swell of uncertainty and the pull of the tides. Every crashing wave, every brewing storm reminds me of...

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MIRAGE OF CLARITY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the side view mirror of the U-Haul, my familiar world slips away, the verdant green hills of North Texas, lush and breathing, their whispers fading into dust. We roll into the heart of the Permian Basin, the lushness surrendering to the parched expanse. Flat is the land—yellow, ochre and brown; the sagebrush and mesquite, stoic in...

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excited joyful sparkling sprite danced her way into my sight luna moth loveliness in her flight lifting the fey in an effervescent light...

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Dickie dumbfounded dumbkopf danced delirious dumpling dance duped into dumb bunny deception...

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Q Where did Yoga, Ti-chi, transcendental meditation, karma and reincarnation originate from etc? A The eastern religions and the 'slimy serpent' introduced the 'to the Christian nations,' in order to deceive them and introduce them into false doctrine and focus...

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