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Schoolroom Poems - Poems about Schoolroom

Premium Member The School of Wisdom
...The Schoolroom is the world With God's wisdom unfurled But fools govern today To the oppressed's dismay For His wisdom they disdain So much they cannot explain Proud because of their gain He......

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Categories: schoolroom, bible, faith, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Number One At Last
...NUMBER ONE AT LAST Crouched over a desk with knees tucked under Echoes of that old schoolroom haunt me still The teacher’s comments as loud as thunder It seemed to me I was put through the mill......

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Categories: schoolroom, school,
Form: Dizain



Premium Member Puzzle Piece
...Don’t underestimate telling someone they were missed. There was a black hole in a pew, in a schoolroom, at work; on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday… Widen that smile, that big toothy grin. Don’t underesti......

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Categories: schoolroom, care, cheer up,
Form: Haibun
The True Story of a One-Eyed Kid
...A doctor saved his eye then he took it away by hiding it from the boy’s face. His hands were puppy dog tails wagging blindly. He played a game of Scrabble with a Brail alphabet as his only g......

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Categories: schoolroom, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tears For Papa
...I relive the nightmare of seeing my papa hanged At six, I didn’t know I could cry so hard and so much They dragged him to a tree while the crickets sang It deprived me of any chance to feel his fi......

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Categories: schoolroom, america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Teacher Dreams
...He studied and sought dreams to become a teacher Sometime his days and plans are torn to pieces Leaving place of learning without a backward glance Onward to a School of not his choosing. Area de......

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Categories: schoolroom, appreciation, change, emotions, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unwise Advances
...Distrusted compliments - screech like fingernails across a schoolroom chalkboard. No marked card - dealt from the bottom of the deck - will ever unlock my heart. Avoid the overt - sly Val......

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Categories: schoolroom, 11th grade, boy, girl,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Schoolroom Menagerie
...she saved a bird after he landed with feet in the air near the ceramic bunny — someone’s brother (in the garden) ginger snaps on her cool desk. cages upon cages of snakes and an orange-......

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Categories: schoolroom, animal, bird, death, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Saying You Cant Is a Precursor To Saying You Wont
... Saying You Can’t Is a Precursor to Saying You Won’t Written: by Tom Wright 2/7/2018 To most problems I adopt a pragmatic approach, Experience is the schoolroom where I was taught. ......

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Categories: schoolroom, books, culture,
Form: Lyric
A Walk To St Mary's Church
...A restless night, another hum-drum day, Resolve to take a pleasurable walk; I make my way towards St Mary’s church. Across the street, a sixteenth century home – Maltravers Manor, testament to ti......

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Categories: schoolroom, history, journey, travel,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Dust Devil
...Loneliness the circles In which the daydream never ends I wish you'd go away those times So I could find you once again Perhaps a hole-in -middle whirlpool The nothing that ever stays A fist ......

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Categories: schoolroom, absence, heartbroken, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Kummerspeck: Lisandro's Song
...Kummerspeck (Lisandro's Song) Little Lisandro (he's white, don't get offended) sits at a desk in a schoolroom he'd rather not be in forced by people he doesn't know to do what he'd rather not......

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Categories: schoolroom, social, society, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Conundrum
...Another dead from injuries In this latest mad attack. Gun-downed by a supposed friend, She had no time to fight back. The fifteen year old gunman Has died by his own hand. Because of him, two o......

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Categories: schoolroom, death, student,
Form: Narrative
I Remember When
...I remember when… I tied myself to the chair in first grade. Taking seriously Teacher’s red light - “Young lady, if you don’t stay in your seat…” I took my scarf and bound myself up ti......

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Categories: schoolroom, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jesus In a Box
...Some folks put Jesus in a box and take Him out on Sunday, when church is over bring Him home and He’s boxed again by Monday. There are other folks who do not let Him hang around at a......

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Categories: schoolroom, faith,
Form: Quatrain

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