Proms Poems

Premium MemberProms, Mother's Day, and Graduations

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On warm May days, 
teenagers dress for their prom dates.
On warm May days,
we moms receive our well-earned praise.
For many, graduation waits;
accomplishments, each celebrates
on warm May...
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Categories: proms, may,
Form: Rhyme

Gluffer

...Watashi Yoku........ Complained about his life. It gave him words often angring him into comparision. His father had left him with his five siblings. His mother raised them. But his father sometimes ...
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Categories: proms, beautiful,
Form: Ballade


Endless Days

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All I do is sleep, cook, clean,
the rhythm of each day blurring into the next.
Morning breaks and I’m on my feet,
scrambling eggs, packing lunches,
wiping counters and tears alike.

I never...
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Categories: proms, daughter, growing up,
Form: Free verse

Home

...Love can move mountains,
And impair one's judgements
Make you soar high like a bird
Or so in tales, I've seen and heard.

Been watching cheesy romcoms
Couples dancing in balls and proms
Read l...
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Categories: proms, beautiful, cute love, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPROM PHOTOS

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Our granddaughter attended her high school Prom…
her photo was posted on-line
which led me on a hunt through our old photos 
until I found one of me at mine.

As I gazed at these two photos
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Categories: proms, change,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberSpring Sonata

...Springtime, you always arrive so gently,
as high school proms bring tears of friends
who know they must soon part.
I will try not to weep of fifty-six years ago,
as I see the vision of my sibling...
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Categories: proms, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPavilions of Time

..."If home is where the heart is and the heart lives in memories, remember that the past was just a second ago".

(Sand Promises)

Just like decor from long forgotten proms,
balloons and crepe lef...
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Categories: proms, memory,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberMidwinter Night's Dream

...Midst sullen storm and winter's grip,
Secure and warm I toddies sip.
By fireside glow my thoughts take wing.
While watching snow, I dream of spring.

Spring's swimming pools, azalea shrubs,
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Categories: proms, april, beauty, dream, happiness,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberSeating Arrangement

...*Image of Toilet Issue by Pixabay.

Seating Arrangement

Notice Ladies and Gentlemen:
Please place the toilet seat down when
you're done, Thank You, The Management.
"Don't forget b...
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Categories: proms, analogy, celebration, teenage,
Form: Rubaiyat

Best Sports Poems V

...These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part V

Just Smile
by Michael R. Burch

We'd like to think some angel smiling down
will watch him as his arm bleeds in the yard, 
ripped of...
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Categories: proms, america, baseball, basketball, boxing
Form: Rhyme

Poetry In Motion

...Poetry in motion 
Take me out … the ballgame
bats and balls a'soaring
Root, toot, toot … the home team
'round the bases scoring.

Poetry in motion
Daddy and daughter dance
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Categories: proms, 11th grade, dance, poetry,
Form: Monchielle Stanza

Premium MemberJune 2021

...Proms and graduations are over
Eighteen-year-olds are planning their lives
Forty years ago they would be getting married
But this is not then, and they are in no rush

June prettiness of the old...
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Categories: proms, june,
Form: Free verse

Trump Is Bag All Full of Scum

...Here are questions that I would be asking Trump.

have many crosses to burn
why never will take your turn
before start did adjorn

poor things have proposed
why are you being exposed
lying we...
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Categories: proms, allegory, analogy,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberMay Is Feisty and Fun

...I am a Gemini, born in May.
Some are June babies, but May to me is the real Gemini month.
May is May baskets, May Day, May pole, and my birthday month.
Some people have a birthday. I have a birth ...
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Categories: proms, may,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSister Hilda Marie of Ind

...She was the sparkle at the heart of it
The love we all shared
I don’t remember a day that passed by, 
without her friendly smile or wink of her eye.
We lost Hildie in the spring of last year
And...
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Categories: proms, celebration, character, death of
Form: Free verse

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