Leaving School Poems

My average means I don’t have to take final exams.
So my bachelor's degree is a finished product.
I cranked it out, all that’s left now is...

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A bird flew over me,
leaving a feather falling,
landing on my head:
Oh, it had to be a dove,
I’ve never felt so peaceful:-
...

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Lisa and I played a round of frisbee-disc golf today—let’s reminisce.

I love the ‘live performance’ of sports, how you must physicalise
discipline. You get this instant...

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Trees’ leaves were ripped off,
leaving nakedness behind
with teasing winter:-

Nude trees not ashamed
as winter winds teased them;
their hope barked in spring:-

Through thrusting winter,
naked trees never gave...

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I’m finally going to get on that platform
on the 18th of next month,
for a first-time, one-time performance.
The once, seemingly impossible will come fully true, 
which...

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I keep thinking about this summer—about starting a new school—and as soon as I do, I find myself internally monologuing and getting all high-schooly. It’s...

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Scrounging for boogers wrought my damn nostrils nearly to bust 

Warning: The following material no worse than getting cooties. I remember them way back in...

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It’s one in the morning.
I zoomed into Lisa’s room
and threw myself on the bed where she lay reading
in a near virtuoso, Fosbury flop.
She bounced, jostled...

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Embryonic Stage

So comfy and warm
Not feeling a hint of harm
Oh, what’s happening

Birth

Good grief, it’s so cold
O’er and o’er again was told
“Beautiful baby”

Child Age

Play sports, make...

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She would do our heads in, but It’s not that I didn’t value her great teaching skills. Her strategies and patterns always stood out. The...

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We, the freeborn, born to be free,
Yet shackled by chains of mental slavery,
We sought knowledge in hallowed halls of learning,
But found ourselves lost in labyrinths...

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Notice:
In the greater scope of things…
No matter how strong each is in arriving


Little matter, for when arriving
Each arrives alone … surviving to need.


‘Alone’, I say
We...

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You better believe what your bringing
Cause I'm cracking out these lyrics and leaving your ears ringing
I'm like the angels that sing on high
See all of...

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My heart beats fast, my soul feels alive
When I see you, my love, my heart thrives
In two short years, you'll leave my sight
Leaving me with...

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I left my state to study afar.
A church college lured me to go west
where it’s so dry and no fireflies are.
But I was young and...

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