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Spitballs Poems - Poems about Spitballs

ragazzino salta

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“ragazzino salta” 

face to the wall
reading poetry 
slingshot spitballs

little jack horner
sat in his quiet corner
once upon a time

ragazzino salta
your sorry mu...

Categories: spitballs, muse,
Form: Free verse

The Table

...The lesson was don’t speak with a mouthful,
And not at all when grown folk speak.
My pitiful plate burns on my lap,
So too does my sister’s on hers.
The dinner table sits too small to invite chil...

Categories: spitballs, age, change, children, growth,
Form: Free verse

Naked Dreams

...Did you ever have that dream,
Where you're naked and at school?
All your friends bust out laughing,
And you feel just like a fool.

You keep running through the halls,
Searching for clothes to ...

Categories: spitballs, angst, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Poetry Contests Are Silly

...Poetry contests.   How ridiculous. Silly even. It is like comparing:
dogs with underarms,
underarms with toothbrushes,
toothbrushes with giraffes,
giraffes with garden parties,
garden parties wi...

Categories: spitballs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: List

A Beleauged of Their Own

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A tale of two twins ...


Kit:	That sure was a mean swing, Dottie. You knocked it out of the park. You’re the Sultana of Swat. I love the way you ‘round the bases doing your cute duck...

Categories: spitballs, baseball, political, satire, word
Form: Prose Poetry

An Unrepentant Spitball Marksman

...the upshot constituted a figurative straw
     that broke the virtual camels back
where yours truly fingered as scape goat,
     who meekly, passively, and subserviently
     felt the stinging cr...

Categories: spitballs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Seven For Chaos and Order - My Path Determined By One Chaotic Day

...Fresh out of college, I got a substitute teaching job

in junior high school Spanish classes - my WORST nightmare.

Spitballs were flying; students leaped over desks like zoo animals.

School e...

Categories: spitballs, teacher,
Form: Verse

Puppeteers of Perfection

...soon i will be less tired
all toenails are grassy green
both my big toes have yellow puss oozing from them
i have been walking since before dawn
it is now half past midnight, and i am nowhere nea...

Categories: spitballs, sad love,
Form: Free verse

Grandsons

...Young boys
Love toys
Ring chimes
Sing rhymes
Climb trees
Skin knees
Catch frogs
Pat dogs
Love grime
Spit slime
Downfalls
Spitballs

Teen boys
Fix toys 
Wear jeans
Plant beans
Split l...

Categories: spitballs, childhood, children, life, teen,
Form: Footle

Spiritual Baseball

...If I were to venture a sports analogy,
I'd say life most resembles baseball spiritually.
We spend eons preparing in the dugout,
Then nervously strut out to take our time at bat.

The rival coach...

Categories: spitballs, allegory, analogy, baseball, christian,
Form: Quatrain

Have a Wonderful Summer Break

...Twas the day before Summer Break
And all through the school
Not a single kid was studying
or following one single rule
The books were all stacked in the corner with care
while paper and spitball...

Categories: spitballs, summer,
Form: Free verse

Adios, Madre

...Your face on a magazine published before I was born
The other pages torn to make paper boats and spitballs
But the page you live on is as fresh as it was decades ago
As if someone was afraid to touch...

Categories: spitballs, death, death, death,
Form: Blank verse

Doris, You Can Drive My Bus!

...DORIS, YOU CAN DRIVE MY BUS!


Doris, I’ve been wantin to ride your bus.
Ain’t asking much, so don’t be making a fuss.

Thank God you’re not driving the short one,
‘cause riding with you has a...

Categories: spitballs, childhood, nostalgia, schoolschool, school,
Form: Rhyme