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Rookies Poems - Poems about Rookies

Nascar Haiku Poem

...14 Days of a Haiku representing 14 laps of a rookie driver’s first NASCAR race.
Lap 1 Green Flag - (4/16/25) @ 2:23pm
Engines roar to life,
Rookies grip is tight with nerves
First lap, heart on f...
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Categories: rookies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberEarth's Eulogy Unread

...I lift and rise to being chased,
pops half-way, till full, beamed round-faced,
a fire host heightened its facade,
casting daylight shadows abroad.

Cool Earth plunged hot by its keep...
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Categories: rookies, eulogy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



The Unsupervised Stop Sign

...They rode to matches in an old school bus.
The rookies at the front, old players in back,
the coach, by the driver, "she's one of us!".
Wore team colors out, came home wearing black.

An ice hoc...
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Categories: rookies, death,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberHappy Christmas Everyone

...Christmas 
witness

Noel’s 
sleigh bells

Twinkling 
inkling 

Reindeer 
brings cheer 

Season
reason

Santa 
grant a

snowfall
for all

Cherub
hubbub 

Glisten 
listen 

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Categories: rookies, appreciation, art, beauty, birth,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberTwenty-Two Swans

...Twenty-two Swans
Line the runway.
This years rookies
Practice take offs and landings.
A rapid splash dance
Followed by the whirring sound
Of fiercely powerful wings.
They will be gone soon
Le...
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Categories: rookies, flying, nature,
Form: Free verse



Slick Olympic Quick Trick

...When the temp goes down smiles come out. 
You can hear the cheers of athletes shout. 
Coming from competitors of all walks of life. 
Piercing the chill like butter with a hot knife. 

Strapping ...
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Categories: rookies, confidence, encouraging, innocence, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

A Bunch of Tough Cookies

...Sometimes life's a competition of how far we can throw,
Or simply having the greatest mind to win an intelligence show.
Certainly, there is still one thing to know,
Even the toughest or smartest o...
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Categories: rookies, analogy, cheer up, cute,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member'Pon The Mountain

...Looking forward all winter for my vacation 
A three-day excursion put on by We Are One Nation
We parked our RV’S near the foothill,
then hiked and climbed top of the cliff and met Will
When t...
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Categories: rookies, appreciation, vacation,
Form: Rhyme

In Stacks

...What you really think I'm going back there
What you really think I act back
Well I hope you ain't seen my past then 
Front pages I got em in stacks man
I was the bad man
I was the dope runner 
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Categories: rookies, 6th grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMom, Dad, and the Kids On a Shopping Spree

...When the kids are in the shopping cart
  They never stop once they start
Mommy, Daddy, I want these cookies
This candy, this cereal, this pizza, this --
  They're pros at it, they never were rook...
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Categories: rookies, children, dad, mom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberYoung Rookie Cop and Her Instincts

...Young rookie cop was horrified at the old lady’s truth. 
She wanted to put on the cuffs and haul her in.
Wait a sec, the veteran sergeant said. This is Auntie Ruth.
She might not be the culprit. S...
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Categories: rookies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSchool Bullies

...In grade school we had our bullies
Proved themelves by beating up rookies 
Rooks went on to be
Successful peeps
Bullies usually ended up wearing hoodies...
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Categories: rookies, 8th grade,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberOpening Day With a Little Delay

...Opening Day with a Little Delay

Take me out to the ball game
 Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games; 
 Basket catches, ERA’S, country hardball;
 Foul balls, the pick off, intentiona...
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Categories: rookies, baseball, celebration, sports,
Form: Free verse

Mini Drama: Sturmabteilung 3

...Among the hearing participants, some stayed put, some cast curious eyes outside with craned necks, some stood up and began to pace around or away, but nobody was seriously scared, nor were there any ...
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Categories: rookies, angst,
Form: I do not know?

Help Need Somebody

...H-E-L-P!!!     N-e-e-d     s-o-m-e      b-o-d-y!!!...
Spouse booby trapped husband!!!

Homicide courtesy munch
house zen by proxy
immediately suspected hunch
police, K9 corps, and ambulance
ne...
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Categories: rookies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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