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Should Have Known Better Poems - Poems about Should Have Known Better

Get Up
...“Get Up.” I don’t remember hitting the floor. Just the sharp cut between feeling dizzy and suddenly being on the ground. My body felt far away, like I was watching myself from outside my own skin. M......

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Categories: should have known better, 10th grade, abuse, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Sandi Yak With a Monkey on Her Back
...Sandi Yak with a Monkey on Her Back Once in a land that is super cold, lived a Yak that is super old. She had a monkey that lived on her back, and his name was mischievous Jack. Sandi was......

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Categories: should have known better, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme



Despair
...Ceiling spider. Would you please not bite her? While she’s trying to write thoughtfully. Staring out at a tree. She wants to cry. The spider doesn’t want to pry. So he simply works on a we......

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Categories: should have known better, angst, dark,
Form: Rhyme
VOODOO SALAD
...“ VOODOO SALAD “ BLACK CATS IN THE WINDOW BULLET HOLES PAINT THE DOOR SIGN SAYS FORTUNE TELLER I WOULDN’T FEEL LUCKY IN THAT STORE THIS TOWN IS REALLY CREEPY I DON’T TRUST ANYTHING I SEE ......

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Categories: should have known better, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Regret
...Looking back, I see a trail of regrets, A path littered with mistakes I can't forget. If only I could turn back the hands of time, Would my life today be more sublime? Oh, the bad decisions I'v......

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Categories: should have known better, anxiety, dark, sad,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member frog who refused to die
...In seventh grade I should have known better Than to sign up for dissecting in this kind of weather It was stormy and dark, the sky was gloom and doom. In the lab, I fished my frog out of his box-l......

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Categories: should have known better, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Icy Christmas
...In a two-door gold-colored 1973 Ford Maverick with a black vinyl top, 49 Christmases ago, In the winter of 1973, from Chicago, we headed south. My wife's brother was getting married on Chri......

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Categories: should have known better, christmas, memory,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Foolish Trek To the Meadow
...The meadow has come alive with sight and sound As I go through the gate, I hear buzzing all around, The bees are busy working on milkweed flower Waist-high daylilies and coral honeysuc......

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Categories: should have known better, animal, flower, insect, july,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Conversation With Weirdy Cat Guy
...A gargoyle fell off the top of the building and landed on my toe. I screamed like an injured bobcat, loud, long, hard, with a glow. The neighbors all came out and stared, but this was the city. Th......

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Categories: should have known better, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hawks and Doves
...Did you shout out in shock that day as she suddenly stuck her spiked heel into your spine kicking you to the curb through the open car door before slamming her foot on the gas and speeding away......

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Categories: should have known better, betrayal, bird, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Hard Days Fight
...You’re not back in the USSR And you don’t have a ticket to ride. There’s no magic in your mystery tour. The Walrus isn’t on your side. You took a long and winding road Because we couldn’t work......

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Categories: should have known better, allegory, war,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Should Have Known Better
...I have my second graders coloring cutting and gluing. It is taking them quite a bit of time. They are chatting too. This is counseling class, I encourage socializing. I arrived five minutes early ......

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Categories: should have known better, school, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Shadow of Death Dk
...One would think that I should have known BETTER. In the real world, one cannot exist as a cave DWE......

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Categories: should have known better, america, chicago, christian, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Caught In the Act
...From at least 8 trees, he could freely eat. But unfortunately, that wasn't enough. I should have known better than to leave my pecans outside to dry. Caught in the very act of eating my pecans, ......

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Categories: should have known better, animal,
Form: Personification
I Stole Your Heart
...Was I crazy to think I was entitled to your heart? Oh, excuse me. This is exactly what entitlement looks like. The audacity, to even write in these exclusive parts. How dare I put down in ink,......

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Categories: should have known better, betrayal, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: I do not know?

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