Sixth Grade Poems - Poems about Sixth Grade

The Love Letter

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Please Listen to me when I say,
“You’ve got to hide your love away.”

I know I have to hide mine too.
It’s hard to hide a love so true!

Our parents wouldn’t understand 
young love. They’r...

She Was in Charge of Everyone

...She should be ashamed, he should be ashamed, they should be ashamed
Nasari grew up hearing these daily chastises from her mother
She knew that she also should be ashamed
And yet she did not know t...

Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard

...Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard...

since being a student in grade, junior and high school
analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves
quite aware that finger musc...

Upon the precipice of an abyss

...Upon the precipice of an abyss

I stand able, eager, & ready to jump
impossible mission to swallow lump
muscles primed analogous to pump
prayer for soft landing on mine rump
bereft this johnny ...

Conjuring the Lives of Paul McCartney and The Beatles

...I’m bringing out the songs
lingering inside
as patrons in the bar
gaze at me—
I’ve been waiting for this night
for the last two days.
I am looking for the stars
while singing from my heart.
I...

The Influence of Ms Daufeldt

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I always will remember when I was young
and wanting to be special in some nice way.
One person used the power in their tongue.
The dark clouds parted, and I felt a ray
of sunny joy come beaming...

Kelley

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there were his baseball cards
collected in a shoebox,
his model submarines, and planes.
he paced in a restless waddle
from corner to corner in our bedroom.
he could beat me at any game
and al...

Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses

...Eye cannot envision not wearing glasses

Ever since second grade
an ever stronger prescription
for nearsightedness donned my countenance,
cuz myopia (inherited courtesy
both parents) rendered m...

Y I became a poet NOT FOR CONTEST

...I believe that at first
I had a thirst for word
As a child I’d create my own style 
And make up words to popular songs 
Especially when I wanted to sing along
But did not have the vocabulary at ...

Glad to Make my Escape

...I loved my school counseling job
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Until they moved me to another school part time.
One week school A - my home school.
The next week school B-  a school that loves me...

From Loving My Job to Glad to Make my Escape

...I loved my school counseling job
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Until they moved me to another school part time.
One week -school A - my home school.
The next week school B-  a school that loves m...

Temporary Insanity

...Afternoon musing, not quite content,
Wondering where the time all went -
The time not really given, only lent.

The first day of fourth grade,
In the next desk a new girl stayed,
With honey col...

Authentic

...___________



Authentic

An American hero

that's all you have to be



An Italian restaurant ad in pink Miami
and the bright pleas of a broken black poet

Im...

NEAT

...And Maricel was her sweet name 
The first maiden who charmed my heart 
In sixth grade then, when we were young 
Her sweet smile glimmered like the sun 

In place named after rice fields
We had ...

You

...It was you
From the first day of sixth grade
When I was scared and awkward and pimplily

It was you
The next two years 
Through braces and glasses and first my first period

It was you 
Fres...

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