Name Middle School Poems

We fight this battle time and time again
But there is no winner nor an end in sight
Because you see, This is a fruitless fight
Leaving the...

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I float.
Drifting through life,
Barely there.
 Maybe I want to be alone.
After all, it's in my name.
Island.
What can I say?
I guess
I was made
To be alone.
But then...

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Mr. Toast

There was a person whose name was Mr. Toast,
A man put him in a toaster for him to roast,
But he got burnt,
And became a...

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The girls were middle school mean.
They invited a dowdy dumpy frumpy girl named Jean.
They told her she would have to wear a weird hat.
The weirdest...

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The Man…The Spirit

His name was Dr. Martin Luther King;
He was a peace-loving human being.

HIM

Preaching peace and love–
A mountain top of a man:- 
Martin Luther King.


THE...

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Medieval Poem V

A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds,...

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Marion his given name most called him the Duke,
American lad made good living the dream,
Started as a bit actor, 
B movie followed B movie he...

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So this is Fremont, California
Circa nineteen sixty-nine,
Nice and bit of a tight-knit
Neighborhood, that is fine.

I am a honey tanned Hawaiian
In a nearly all white community,
With...

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The mamas send their best.
They don't keep the good ones home to school themselves.
It's my job to love them, take care of them, protect them.
Arm...

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Laura Tonon was her name, at the new school my only true friend per se
Astonishingly she’d taken to me, offered to help with my English...

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My first friends
Didn’t even know
My name.
They called me
Number six
Because that was
My PE number.
On the day I left
I gave them my
New address
But nobody mailed me.
I made...

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