Semester Poems - Poems about Semester

Although we’re just moving in, It feels like we’re lived in these rooms forever. I can’t look around without the past coming out to play. These ivy halls are sticky with memories now. The movers left a while ago and I took a moment to loiter, on our red corduroy couch, and watch my roommates settling in. There’s an irony, for...

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We moved back into the residence yesterday - we were jubilant - and had a slumb-over last night, to celebrate our reunification. We woke up joyous, on the right side of the same bed (slumb-over), and we’ve been bouncing off the walls ever since. We’re in the ‘settling in’ phase, restocking our Keurigs, getting our same-’ol...

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I woke up today and gave my life a reflection The problem, the sorrows The failure that follows Each day feeling my hopes are empty Feeling ashamed and guilty When I see my results crumpled and dirty My grades never had A's Like it had been immune with some kind of anti-retroviral vaccine My life as a student...

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Fall semester starts tomorrow. It’ll be exciting - for a few days - but it won’t be long before we’ll miss the tanned bodies of summer, the cool, clear lake-water or lounging carefree, on bright, sand-like gravel beaches. Tomorrow, things will be different. Our days will start earlier, they'll be a value - a new currency...

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Student approaches a new semester's launching pad Cautiously maneuvers rockets into firing position -- Warning Signal Flashes -- Warning Signal Flashes -- Hazard Alert! Hazard Alert! ...

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The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58 for Fleur Adcock (b. February 10, 1934) The hall was packed full, and the audience seemed particularly restless....

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I found my place there. To lie in despair. I dream of elsewhere. I see you tie your hair. Or that dress you wear. We'll never be a pair. I would never dare. This is only fair. This feeling seems to tear. I wonder why I care. Here there is only air, just enough to bare....

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The last students hand in their final test. I try to make eye contact with each one, express good will, and wish them all that's best. Some stay a moment to say, "It's been fun.", and express how much they enjoyed the course. I hold back tears and the urge to hug all, 'cause walking out the door is my life's...

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A Dirge to my Old Semester I peregrinated to the land of my ancestors When I heard you are sick I never knew it was true Until when Timtec pasted their diagnostic result It was so sad that you are suffering from such an ailment You suffered from senile dementia Without sanctity from mild ailments Mild ailments encoded with 101,201,301,401,501 and others We tried...

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Yesterday lingers in my memory today Perched on a manicured hill after the last bell All my friends surrounding me She strolls by, I catch blue eyes glance quickly my way A scented letter I rent a white tuxedo for her Sorority dance She's dressed in blue silk We are formally announced Arm-in-arm I escort her through a flowered arch to that shining floor The band sings a sweet slow...

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