School Rictameter Poems

"Life can get in the way of life. Make sure you stir in lots of love and happiness." 
By Poet

My life
recipe for
a long and happy...

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Again
with snow on me
I awake from my sleep
the warmth from the big yellow sun
brings pretty flowers peeking their heads out
birds start to sing joy to...

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Fire
Is the big rage
Of a fed up man who
Took a look at his little school 
And decided it was not worthy of 
Him and destroyed...

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Eighteen
Beautiful day
May 1970
My high school graduation day
I could be a nurse mother or teacher
Our caps and gowns were red and gold
Small town Iowa kids
So excited
Eighteen


Written:...

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Summer
                        ...

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snow storm
whirling, twirling
a few snowflakes at first,
she starts out so unassuming,
within an hour, snow is on the ground.
school is cancelled, children laugh
snow plow activity
housebound, hot...

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code red —
don’t come to school.
ignores - can’t stay away!
her own teenage son could be in trouble.
the drones circling in her harried brain.
a mother’s feeling...

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You can 
drive your whole life 
not look upon the face
of harbingers in spring wet earth. 
Remembering the ephemeral warm
Mediterranean summers
clean Petrich or fresh rain...

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Ding dong!
the warning bell
'only ten minutes left'
invigilator announces
so many problems are yet to be solved
passing remains a dream again
let me write a poem
before the next
ding...

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Bell rings,
                       ...

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