High School Poems

Khamisa Class 
A class made up of combination of different students 
Ranging from serious students to crazy students 
Including both sleeping students and playful students...

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At my prom, I was a flower on the wall
To fade into obscurity I wanted to crawl
Shy and withdrawn
In my gown of chiffon
Scared of the...

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Don Key and Ophelia Balls
Were screwing around in the halls
A teacher explained
Last night it had rained
And slippery halls can cause falls...

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You're smiling ...
I'm staring at you
I know you know that I know
That you like me ... that you REALLY like me
Wendy told me, and Linda...

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The Roma

  I see them in my mind’s eyes
walking through the landscape walking forever
their horses, children, dogs and women in black
a slow wander through...

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The compact disc now adds full sound.
Our mothers preach from all around.
Explicit lyrics and songs of sin.
We sneak in vodka, some rum and gin.

KISS, The...

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The wonderfully designed expensive high school.
She approached with a graceful apprehension.
The teens there on that rich autumn day,had grown up
together.
But, she..from the big city?
Not welcomed...

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I am a teenaged girl in
The year 1988
I'm so full of excitement
To be going on this date

As I get myself ready
I really must say,
It really...

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Thank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!) 
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.

       Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
...

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Dance tonightl at the all girls Catholic high school.
Come on join us tonight, we are all looking cool,

New leather saddle shoes, bright, white ankle socks.
Hair...

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Throughout the nineteen-fifties, times were neat;
full, long flared skirts and bobby socks gals wore,
while rock and roll and doo-wop moved our feet
to music slow and...

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It was a Friday,
and I was excited
about the High School Dance that night.

I wore a yellow chiffon dress up to my knees
with black Patton leather...

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“…Let the sunshine (and let the sun shine on in)
Let the sunshine in (You got to open up your heart)…"
-- From Aquarius, by The 5th...

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I wanted to fly and be a fighter pilot

From my youngest age

Shooting enemy Soviet planes down

Before they could nuke us

The sky called to me

A lofty...

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Don’t bee late for Flight-school


Ok…Are you sure you have got everything that you need?
There is nothing you have forgotten?
Nothing you want to get before you...

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So you are asking about a school dance,
That end-of-year "School's out!" celebration,
The clothes, the music, youthful romance -
Mine was the rock-and-roll generation,
Catchy music with no...

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My memories of high school
are not good really very bad
truly hated every day there
suffering a stammer made me sad

For first time called McConnell
teaches seemed really...

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I know you don’t want to hear it
But one day you WILL 
look up and think, 
“Dammit Mom”
And then notice the rose-gold
Of a sunset

Just like...

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There once was a salesman from Nice
Who soaked all his work clothes in grease.
He would slide through town
With nary a frown,
Til someone would call the...

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I first saw you in the school library.
your dark head was stuck in a book,
trying to get your attention I sat next to you,
you looked...

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