Short Diploma Poems

tall grey fortresses
feeling insignificant
diploma in hand...

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He walked across
the gown-filled stage, and off
with his diploma.


[For Joey]...

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It's not the accolade diploma
          who distinguishes,
          a human being,
          is the human quality
          who qualifies.. !...

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Passed all my grades  and received a diploma;
Question asked was where is all of the aroma;
A New tactic;
Being aromatic;
Told them was while passing through Tacoma.

Jim Horn...

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When Len traveled to Oklahoma

to obtain a ranching diploma

a bull butted him hard

out in the training yard

and he but earned a hematoma.







July 25, 2019
State Limerick
Kevin Shaw...

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If we set our minds to it, there's nothing we can't achieve
But our image is lowered when we blow our nose on our sleeve
Kinda destroys our stature
As a knowledge dispatcher
More like someone with a grade two diploma would you believe?...

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If we set our minds to it, there's nothing we can't achieve
But our image is lowered when we blow our nose on our sleeve
Kinda destroys our stature
As a knowledge dispatcher
More like someone with a grade two diploma would you believe?...

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Tell me this, why is there a gate around all cemeteries?
People are dying to get in... duh, that's where peeps are buried
How far did you get in school?
Just passed the status of fool?
Have you some proof like a diploma for breast feeding?...

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to get a high school diploma you must be able to read at a twelfth grade level
this was in 1952
In 1972 we were told “an eleventh grade level is good enough”.
Today reading at a ninth grade level means that you graduate.
I heard that at a seminar this morning....

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The universe lay at his feet
        Sun brilliant o'erhead
     The ocean stretches forever
        Wheat fields before him spread

     Armed with a diploma
        and a backpack full of hope
     Will his stride be bold ~
        his handiwork produce gold...

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Please hold the applause until the end, the commencement director said.
Some families could not do it.
When their child received his or her diploma they went nuts
Yelling and screaming like wild dogs, frenzied and excited.
I am happy to report I am from one of those families....

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Stress is an
Understatement when it comes to the
Mine field called school.
Millions and millions of children and teachers
Expressly waiting for the last
Ringing of the school bell

For the year.
Understanding the price of the diploma; but, wanting
Nothing more than that "hot break"....

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Breaking through the titled ceiling,
  my voice survived unnamed

Unleashed to save the future past,
  with words their truth proclaimed

All time bereft of judgment,
  all feelings self contained

Diploma mailed but left unsigned
  —its seal in freedom stained

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

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NINE DAYS LEFT

Nine days until graduation day
I can’t believe it’s finally time
It’s taken a long time to get here
I have waiting a very long time
The special day has almost arrived
I hope I don’t trip across the state
Cannot wait to get my diploma
And finally be done with high school
How many more days left; nine...

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Mirror what you did to get in
Mirror what you did once you achieved your diploma
Mirror every country
Mirror every bit about any currency
Mirror every thought from where you started
and where you ended up
And Mirror everything
As in a dream
You should be having
Just so you will know
Just where you come from.

Peace!...

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I graduated with a bachelor's degree on my hand
A diploma I used to aim 
An excellency
A triumph
Nevertheless, It was the same thing.

I see myself as a beginner
A track I used to follow
Between right and wrong
I don't know where I belong.

Poetry is my best buddy
Pen is my best friend
They say I'm weird
But yes,  It's not their thing....

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The ink on my diploma
still wet
I lived on my grandparent's farm
for the summer
Their day began with roosters crowing and 
ended at sundown
In between those two bookends of the day
cows were milked
crops were tended
chickens were fed
hay was cut and baled
real people creating real food
for real people


[Imagist form]

Written 13 Dec 2020...

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A student battling with Asthma
And vaporous Miasma
Wouldn't he pack up Charisma?
Soon, confront the sure dilemma
Of suspending his Diploma 
Or sniffing Hard Work's aroma...

Espy I do Anathema,
Its picture clearest cinema:
A man from a great deal barred
And a future that might be marred...

Worse than malfunctional plasma 
Bad Asthma plus Bad Miasma!...

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CERTIFICATE

this poem is a certificate
to verify
the poet
is
lucid

this poem is a diploma
to justify
a pen
of
logic

this poem is a document
to authorize
a notion
with
feeling

this poem is a licence
to validate
bizarre
bent
belief

this poem is a…….
certifiable  ripple
of 
my 
wits
end




© Kim van Breda—10 March 2015...

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In a soothing light eloquence
She spreads her fragrance
Her spirit is free
Somewhat like me

Bathed in the moon light
She is a little angel in white
She has the power to intoxicate
With her my heart resonates

She holds a diploma
For her exotic aroma
Like a balm she puts me into a coma
A sensual flavour adding to her persona

16.3.2021
My favourite scent....

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You start by throwing things out
packing things that will fit
in a smaller place, selling stuff 

that won’t, ignoring the birds  
because the seed’s run out 
not weeding the garden 

you won’t see bloom, then 
finding a home for the dog 
which is almost as tough as

watching your last child accept
a diploma and wave good-bye
get on a plane and leave home.


Donal Mahoney...

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I lust for knowledge,
My day will come,
Bachelors,
Masters,
PhD maybe,
My day will come,
I believe it,
No faith placed in me,
But from me indeed,
My strength is my rock,
I will follow through,
The language of life,
I know it well,
It is my spell,
You will understand,
The day I receive that third diploma,
My doctorate in English Literature,
That will be the day of true destiny....

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Success 
Written: by Miracle Man
September 27, 2020

Success isn’t a life award,
intended solely for the well educated.
The diploma that reads “school of hard knocks” 
is often a subject that many have debated.

Success tipped it’s hat to me,
who displayed patience and perseverance.
In spite of all odds, and others,
they became my motivators not an interference.
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A flattened rose mumbles
An old cracked button chuckles
Tickled by a 2nd place ribbon
In the corner a tattered doll weeps
Comically consoled by a one-eyed bear
Ballet slippers long for a pointed toe
A dried corsage sits inside a dusty tiara
A leather-bound diploma shouts success
A tear stained letter sorrow

For joy and sadness are but fleeting moments
Imbedded in the soul of ephemera
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Made by my daughter, to showcase me,
a round locket- that holds small charms:
books in honor of my poems, sunflower,
a sewing machine, art palette, loved cat,
my college diploma achieved later in life,
firefighter coat- for the business we ran-
and two hearts inscribed Mom and Nana!


October 23, 2020

Contest: 49ER
Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco

7 Lines, 7 Words Each
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