School Quintain (English) Poems

Started on a happy note that foggy cold December day
School being closed, for adventure, our spirits craved
After breakfast, with my cousins, I joyfully set out...

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Christmas is almost here,                                          ...

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I’m thrilled to have my students joining me
for milk and cookies on this lovely day.
For fun we will pretend it’s scones and tea.
The maid has...

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September sashays in with cooler air,
new school year, shorter days, an early frost,
fall sports, cookouts on Labor Day, street fairs,
trips to the beach before the...

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Born in giftedness of innate purview, 
Tending him like tender scion, is vital.
Send him to play, work isn't his battle.
Never let school, for him, be...

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Face framed ornate, or curl corner blu tacked up
Childhood fanciful daring must softly be contained
Dispicable hovers inside cherub cheeked adorable 
Challenge for enamoured to create...

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An axiom soon for a dairy truck, as it ambles,
The yellow school bus full of rambunctiousness,
A watched clock tower crowds fate gambles,
The unsteady quietude of...

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Walking to grade school without a care
Each morning at the same spot
Freshly baked bread scent filled the air
Straight from the oven, savory hot
Aroma so sweet,...

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AROMA ROAMS

                 Specific smell searching reminiscences
   ...

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For years, those homegrown scents have been stuck in my head.              ...

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No warning, in the house a silence fell,
pitch darkness, and the minutes slowly passed,
how long this cut would last no-one could tell.
Match sparked, the flame...

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Day after day I’d be walking on autopilot back to my abode
Till there it was that stop-you-in-your-tracks odorous bouquet
How lovely those long awaited lilacs would...

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A girl returned to school--still not quite well.
A classmate queried, "What's been wrong with you?"
She was so timid but at last could tell
the boy "Pleurosis."...

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I am running out to the car in a hurry I am.
Then out of no where came a tall green trash can.
With a tumble a...

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It was like yesterday
When I exactly made
The best of your life.
Today is the day!
I’m about to say goodbye.

Those gentle words
I’ll surely treasure
Infinity thought,
My solemn vow,
Will...

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