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Midterms Poems - Poems about Midterms

spring breakage

University midterm periods bring early mornings charged with energy drinks and espresso shots. Evenings are spent trading quizlets in Bass Library or in late night cram sessions in the common room. After several days of stressful testing, midterms suddenly end.

But we’re like those Indianapolis race cars that’ve just run 500 laps, we come off our

Categories: midterms, boyfriend, feelings, humor, school,
Form: Free verse

showers

My room, the suite, seemed too small.
I felt like I’d been in my room forever.
I’d developed a scratchy sense of stuckness
and a fresh, itchy awareness of dust particles
floating in the stifling, still air that made me
want to stop breathing in so much.

But I didn’t, categorically, have the energy
to get up and focusing seemed like a

Categories: midterms, emotions, feelings, humor, motivation,
Form: Free verse

voting, fall, midterms

life happens.
It’s fall, it’s midterms
It’s election time.

New Haven’s giving a lot of fall.
I’ve been starting to feel the chills,
but things are turning cold and extra breezy,
so it all maks sense.

The good and bad can coexist closely,
is our energy dropping? Nope.

Whenever I think of voting,
I go back to American Idol.
My first voting experience.
It was 2009 and

Categories: midterms, autumn, emotions, heartbroken, humor,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

bye midterms

The sharpened mind - with care - takes aim
- at university, we play ruthless games.
Where pencils scratch, their graphite gray,
and scholarly answers take the day.

I've finished midterms!
It was like one of those TV shows, ‘survivor’ or something.

Enzyme kinetics, metabolic pathways, protein structures and functions be damned - no, be double damned.

I’d been working problems raw

Categories: midterms, friendship, school, student,
Form: Free verse

New Short Story - Grades Ruin Everything

I've posted a new short story.

Because the length of pieces we can post here is crazy limited.

https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/grades_ruin_everything_9428

Categories: midterms, angst, break up, friendship
Form: Free verse

19, Midterms and Spring Break

So many, too many students had COVID two weeks ago. My parents were supposed to come for a visit, and midterms were on the horizon - so I decided to go ahead and get covid - to get it over with. I’ve been around a dozen people who later that day tested positive, but somehow

Categories: midterms, angst, humor, places, school,
Form: Free verse

Midterm-Ing

It’s a beautiful day, like a hole in perpetual winter. We rode bikes around campus - everyone was out. When it’s cold I just go place to place but today reminded me that outdoors can be fun. Of course, it’s supposed to snow tomorrow night - just a few snow atoms, I think.

Lisa was laying

Categories: midterms, class, imagination, school, teen,
Form: Free verse

Currents

It’s been a week - things have been happening - I’m going through it. I’ve become nostalgic for two weeks ago. I got screamed at, I lost my AirPods case, and I cracked my iPhone screen, so I’m several levels worse - I’m a sad human. I’m writing this at the Apple Store while a

Categories: midterms, dance, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse

Midterms

All my #2 pencils are chewed and the erasers are gone.
Half the pages of my books have been folded. 

Sections are highlighted and notes are scribbled  
in all over the place!  *shaking head*

The page margins are jammed with doodles,  
of flowers, cats, stars, hearts and names.

*flipping pages to early in the year*

September

Categories: midterms, 11th grade, february, school,
Form: Free verse

The Aftermath of Midterms

The Aftermath of Midterms
By Franklin Price
11/7/2018

The aftermath of midterms
Is quickly taking shape
The Democrats have won the house
Yesterday they broke the tape

Republicans have the Senate
May have even gained a few
The question to be answered now
Is, what will this congress do?

Now that there is some balance
For the folks up on the hill
Maybe they'll think of We the

Categories: midterms, political,
Form: Rhyme