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Ninth Grade Poems - Poems about Ninth Grade

Premium MemberThe Featured Twirler

...Oh that Lily, she the epitome of a  
Golden Child as I watched her
Exuding effortless grace, a liquid-silver baton—  
a Haddon Heights Garnett.  
a Blazing Comet /  
enchanting /  
popular and ...
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Categories: ninth grade, confidence, desire, feelings, high
Form: Narrative

Witch from Minnesota

...Her spell remains over me 44 years later

Once a bumblebee has kissed the nectar of Snapdragon
The creature is fever of succulence

She says, “You kiss so softly I think it’s a thing with guys w...
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Categories: ninth grade, change, childhood, feelings, high
Form: Free verse



Premium Membermisunderstanding

...argument over a ninth-grade child
never again did they speak
a misunderstanding...
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Categories: ninth grade, 12th grade,
Form: Kimo

Premium MemberReading Criteria For Graduation

...to get a high school diploma you must be able to read at a twelfth grade level
this was in 1952
In 1972 we were told “an eleventh grade level is good enough”.
Today reading at a ninth grade level ...
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Categories: ninth grade, education,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFeadanting Time

...I may look like a chear-leader - but I really am a cheetah
and after they pass those tests out - I’m going to beat ya.
I heard a student say, in the cafeteria near where I sat
“They really don’t e...
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Categories: ninth grade, addiction, business, confidence, engagement,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberSometimes a Side Is Chosen For You

...She was such a tomboy, her mother decided to make her more girly.
She dressed her in frilly pink and stuck bows in her hair.
She wanted to put fake nails on her, but Daddy nixed that.
She is fine,...
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Categories: ninth grade, gender,
Form: Prose Poetry

Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix

...Juvenilia: Early Poems IX

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.

Shock
by Michael R. Burch

It was early in the...
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Categories: ninth grade, boy, child, childhood, high
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberClicking Send

...Encouraged by a teacher I adored,
		I wrote a little poem at age nine.   
		I don't remember writing any more
		till that same lady taught me in ninth grade.

		One day when we were talking at h...
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Categories: ninth grade, books, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberSomewhat Injury-Prone

...First grade, pelted with eggs
  Second grade, broke both legs
Third grade, fell down the stairs
  Fourth grade, clawed by a bear

Fifth grade, ran into a tree
  Sixth grade, twisted a knee
Sev...
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Categories: ninth grade, growing up, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberNever To Be Forgotten

...For you, the first to teach me poetry,
I wrote a little poem at age nine.
I don't remember writing any more
till I had you for English in ninth grade.

One day when we were talking at your desk,...
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Categories: ninth grade, appreciation, education, student, teacher,
Form: Blank verse

Can We Meet

...Can We Meet

Dear Ashutosh

As long as I remember
You just painted my days of yore
Love floated through my eyes
Anxious to reach your heart's shores

You sat at edge of third row
Oh!how my ...
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Categories: ninth grade, cute love, happy, heart,
Form: Rhyme

The Mhs Class of '77 Chapter One

...Re: Thank You to unknown 
   tom, dick, harry, tam, dame, 
   or dana from the MHS Class of 77, 
   though this alum
experiences public education 
   within lower providence jurisdiction

as a...
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Categories: ninth grade, books, change, courage, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry

Undeniably and Knowingly Bill Nye

...Undeniably and Knowingly Bill Nye.

Have you ever been overcome by a book before
While wondering what next for us is in store
Darwin did say be strong avoiding infection
While recognizing each u...
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Categories: ninth grade, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet

Twilight

...Twilight, with its soft light,
    Its faint quiet shadows,
Falling on the hillsides,
    The mountains, the meadows,
Brings to me such deep thoughts,
    Such philosophic notions,
That I somet...
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Categories: ninth grade, nature, philosophy,
Form: Lyric

Starry

...Her name was Lisa and she was a blonde-haired girl, but her friends called her Starry because she was so into astronomy! She built her own telescope at 12, a humble 6 inch reflector. But she did spen...
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Categories: ninth grade, stars, winter,
Form: Haibun

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