Short Graduated Poems

I graduated from Murphy’s Law School: 
	Anything that can go wrong will go wrongfully accused, I suffered a public
				             Scornucopia....

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Happy birthday, Noah Roque, 
A student has high distinction; 
Graduated magna cum laude, 
He has learned from education. 

Topic: Birthday of Noah Roque (March 30)...

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A Shadow falls across the Moon
     The evening seminar stops its tune
     College has ended for this same day
     Except for what with the few last student's
         lamplight rays....

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I should be holding my head up high
because I'm a young, black lady
who graduated high school
and is now going to
college. I make good
grades and have a
job that God's
blessed me
with....

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Dark hard dark rubber shoe soles
jiggle up and down in boredom
classy, they’re the same he’ll wear
ten years from now, graduated,
at the office, still bored, wondering
where his youth went....

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A Nigerian, studying for years,
In higher institution,
Burning candles.

Graduated with honors, got no job,
Searching daily,
Fed up.

Tears rolling down, he is pained,
Remember him,
This I plead....

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Milk and Honey

Heard that they had a big rehearsal
Graduated from Trump School Universal
We had handed him all of our money
He then collected it like milk and honey
Now we can't do anything that is useful.

How sad.

Jim Horn...

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Another Kerr Eruption

With intelligence had been an interruption,
And inserted into it was some Kerruption;
We were elated,
And graduated;
While Trump had experienced corruption.

Kerr is a lay Episcopal Person at All Saints
at Stonybrook, NY....

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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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(This poem is true)

Twenty years ago today was the last day I went to school.
I was fed up with taking the students and teachers bull.
I dropped out in the 9th grade but years later I graduated high school at the age 
of twenty-three.
I hope other kids don't drop out like me....

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They coursed their thoughts
Pretending they were dragons
Smoking like they were nothing else

They had just graduated
In the art of smoking a cigarette
Without even hurting it

Nobody could deny the hypocrisy
Nor the ugly face of mediocrity:
Were they students of Socrates
They would know the realities....

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waiting for our own voice

words 
will be made
 available as needed..
when understood and 
experienced..this is 
our unique voice..
trust and silence
 in this moment..will 
bring fresh words or
 fresh patterns..
true artists know this
and are grateful for 
their teachers..but know
they have graduated...!...

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“Plastics”, is the word the man said
To Ben who just graduated from college,
At his parent’s party that was so dead.
“Plastics”, is the word the man said,
As he floated off in the pool instead,
Soon to enjoy Mrs. Robinson carnal knowledge.
“Plastics”, is the word the man said
To Ben who just graduated from college....

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to be in love is a joy 
I am just a man 
not a boy
she graduated me to manhood
her loving is so good
she loves me too
the way she should
tender kisses in the morning
just to wake me up 
hugs and squeezes in my coffee cup
she makes my day 
at night when the lights are down low
she holds me tight 
the woman is right
the one for me...

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objectivity
      evidences actions spoken
      feelings  thoughts
figurative textures
                          symbols
          faded metaphors
                         hinged
intrusions graduated
in casual
            tones
              elaboratly 
spoken 
     prosaically    layered

   assimulated
     slowly...

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Will Sonsly be there? Maybe
Mental note to self.
Leave checkbook at home.
Make excuses for all next week.

Will Jerillee be there?
Maybe.
Mental note to self.
Leave credit cards at home.

Will Kluptoma be there?
Definitely!
Mental note, lock purse in car trunk
And hope Kluptoma has not graduated
To grand theft auto yet....

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Our pets got old.
We all acted surprised.
When we had puppies and kittens…
They were playful and unstoppable.
So were we.
As they settled down-
We graduated high school.
As they got weak and scraggly-
We graduated collage.
Now we take turns sending our condolences.
Our friendships changed.
Our pets loved us all the way home....

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graduated cum laude 
with a PhD in madness,
practitioner of your
  own philosophy as
    the harbinger of doom,
tales of darkness where
the deck is always stacked,
what's the sense of light
   to an austere night
or spring's flourish 
   mid winter's brashness,
you don't need to be
      a rocket scientist 
    to diagnose absurdity...

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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 verb, when well wired,
acts as a unit of electrical potential 
equal to the difference between two sparks of meaning
on a graduated scale of question marks,
carrying a constant current of one impact.
When poetic power charges the space
between the thought and the word
there is a jolt,
and a vault from an ought
to a fact.

In the right hands
a marvelous toy....

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St. John gave its pupils arithmetic
I glided through these 
Like breeze of Belize

Los Angeles City College leveled me
Algebra had me on my knees

YET

I clamored to Cal. State, Long Beach,
Where Information Science sacked me

I fought back on campus lush lawns
Lingered crossed-leg in summer sun

WON

My grade was not an F
I graduated and felt blessed.

*...

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intimate
   domestiques
pensive
   melancholic
juxtaposed
   clips in apparent
                 inactivity

inward thought
             exposed
composed
slowly
    graduated
      in
accentuated contours
glazed

  opaque
        layers
where
     light
       floods
the mood
     highlights
emphasises
the
  subtle
    symbolic
with
   significance...

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Hacking through the jungle of pain
Know that it is not in vain

High-school should have been the rage
Mind stuck in the "blah-land" cage

But at least I graduated
Realize not quite so sedated!

Then comes in the mental fun
Process to being number one

And for a while went to CARE
Fangs to illness I did bare!

Now I am going (again) to college
Have some of life's spiritual knowledge!...

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Writing Articles
My pen is a particle,
neutrons are equivalent
to the force in my pen
Like the forces of Zen,
well magnified by ten,
my thoughts within
leave a definite grin
on the faces of kin

I graduated
from dead streets
annihilated
anticipated greatly,
Lucifer obliterated,
dissipated absolutely 
college boys manipulated
black men in America 
acutely disintegrated,
job site largely
discriminated....

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My very special friend I have know so long, my love for you still grows strong.
I think about the times we have shared the good and bad, from the to the sixth to the eighth
I think to myself theses days were just great.
But now we both have graduated and all grown up in our own little way. 
I lie back and think of the future ahead and what lies in store that maybe someday we
could become so much more....

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