Short Grade School Poems

joyous sleep partner
blissfully snoring away
dreaming of kibble...

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Still no valentine
Dropped in my empty box
Ever since grade school....

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Seasoned
Characters
Helpfully
Orchestrating
Ordinary
Life
Tasks,
Erasers
And
Chalk
Having
Equal
Rating...

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Basketball tip off at grade school game
My biggest lifetime shot at fame
Got the ball and took off
Heard the yells from aloft
Wrong way I went but good my aim...

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In grade school we had our bullies
Proved themelves by beating up rookies 
Rooks went on to be
Successful peeps
Bullies usually ended up wearing hoodies...

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My exam is over and everyone is plugged in on phones
earbuds in, except for him, who sleeps, slumped on desk, bag in front
with me the only one who can hear him snoring.
...

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Left just one chance
  to gild the night

One kiss
  —before you leave

        8th Grade Poetry Contest
St Thomas Of Villanova Grade School
                May, 1962...

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Left just one chance
  to gild the night

One kiss,
… before you leave

        8th Grade Poetry Contest
St Thomas Of Villanova Grade School
                May, 1962...

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The USA media is going to kill us all
Giving the shooters fame
We should be more like New Zealand
“A coward walked into a grade school”.
They never had another school shooting....

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Hey, you could be a bus driver!
And do you have nerves of steel?
Can you drive while people scream?
Are you awake at five?
Do children mind you?
Do you love kids?
Hooray!
Driver
Bus...

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Let’s do the happy dance. Cha. Cha. Cha.
Let’s sing and clap. Rah. Rah. Rah. 
Let’s say hello to our friends.
Lah Dah Dee Dah Dee Dah
Sing our jazzy tune
Fly to the moon
Come sweetie
Take my
Hand...

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No arithmetic is required*
But Trump is peculiarly wired
He sure needs an hint
4.5%
Are "totally harmless" expired!


* Grade school students
INSTANTLY know 1% of
293,000,000 = 29,300!...

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There  was a grade-school dropout named Truperter
Whose neighbors in his town said couldn’t be stupidter.
He said the earth was flat,
Dinosaurs were due back.
And he swore Donald Trump has a condo on Jupiter....

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One brisk Saturday morn,
I left the house with glee

To find myself within the woods,
in perfect harmony


(Rosemont Pennsylvania: May, 1959)
Miss Annette’s 5th Grade Class
St Thomas Of Villanova Grade School...

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The big yellow bus has disgorged
          it's final school student;
the driver searches empty seats
          to find what has been forgotten,
or hidden from prying eyes~
          secrets of teenage affairs....

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i am a sentence
a set of words that's complete 
in itself, subject 

and predicate a
conveying  statement, question,
exclamation, or 

command of main clause
sometimes one or more clauses
i am a sentence


by James Edward Lee Sr....

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watching the boob tube
not a waste of time
PBS is good
got me through grade school
use to watch Hunter
Virginia
on Friday nights
the step daughters
loved their Baywatch
eighty-six
world series
eyes were glued
Red Sox
they lost
shucks...

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Some seasons are amazing
Some seasons always stink
Some seasons are mostly known for a drink
Fall is just boring
Mainly from that school
There’s no swimming at the swimming pool
Winter is more fun
Playing in the snow
Fall can be fun by making pies out of dough...

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in grade school
he heard about it

in high school
he prepared for it

in his first year
he explored it

in his second year
he focused on it

in his third year
he felt part of it

in his fourth year
he graduated from it

Now, he has a job
because of it....

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The lunchroom at a grade school
My blood runs cold imagining being asked
To dive in there and try to be recognized
As an adult
I am the school counselor
Not the principal
I do not “do” lunchrooms
The only job I would have more difficulty mastering
Would be school bus driver....

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Remember summer,
as fun’s residue fades.
Well, try anyway.

Now we live prudent,
virtually schooled lives - it's 
all a million laughs.

Humidity clings, 
grasping, like an ex-lovers
unwanted embrace.

Get your bikini,
hit the pool, frolic - drown school
worries in cool play!...

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Emily wasn't the same person I knew back in the
City, as a silent girl in grade school. Everyone was
Shocked to see her smiling and laughing, as she 
Told us about her life in a Zen Monastery
Across a mysterious Chinese mountain.
Sad silence in her life was replaced by
Yearning for a ray of happiness....

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Sparkling gold sequined top.
Glitzy shamrock necklace with twinkly silver chain.
Neon-green gemstone on one hand, pearl on the other.
Spider pin with a fat amber gemstone body and turquoise legs.
I threw on my multi-colored sparkly beads too, for good measure.
I want everyone to know I teach at a grade school....

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We always want the one
We can't have, right?

When in grade school
Popular boy, cute and bright

On to high school and
No one I wanted did I land

Then to college men
For several had a yen

Even to this adulthood
Wanted someone I shouldn't 

I would really like to see
Someone who feels the same about me...

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Correct English
Impeccable grammar
Polite manners
How can you beat this package?

Responsible
Respectful
Kind
Cooperative
Empathetic
A great sport

A total leadership package
Ready to unleash into the world
If you live in another country you may
Substitute English for Spanish, French or whatever best serves you....

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