School Struggle Poems

The skies now dark with swollen grief,
Rain lashes roofs beyond belief.
The monsoon comes not soft, but roaring seas,
It spares no home and trees, nor man,...

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In the stillness of night, I find myself alone,
A young soul with dreams, but fears have grown.
I’m caught in a struggle, a war in my...

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"I should not go to school today,"
Says every girl who feels this way.
"I've got the monthlies and the cramps,
A flood, a flush, and uterine camps.

My...

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He has no poetic garden to gaze upon
no outside to the inside of this room
Soft breaths of brothers 1, 2 and 3
like the breeze on...

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COMRADE LOVE NEEDED

Sorrow of Love is hard to bear
stretches my bones and 
I cannot go on

A need for comrades 
to speak about Love
lost their ability...

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Me

I have failed at everything.
Everything I try to do.

I have failed in school.
I was never well behaved.

I have failed at work.
I was never a very...

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Every morning 
In my balcony 
I am watching 
A same story 

In that small room 
Every one are in hurry 
To load the things 
In...

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I
I tried not to mention the crime
Siblings, it is high time
America stopped self-flagellation,
Self-hate, self-abnegation

II
I feel for him, brother George ("of the earth")
I came close, but...

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Spending time to focus 
Oh no ! I .....realised that my assignment will be due tomorrow
Less sleep and spending more time on writing and thinking
I...

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Every sound is screeching
Every voice is wailing,
Larger than life.
No stillness
Never.

Every eye is on me
When I have to go up there
Alone
The whole class is waiting
For me...

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One Hit Wonder
Another night, another song, another legion showcase

Some friendly folk just out for fun, an acoustic disgrace.

It's little cash, but lots of fun spinning...

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This is not my life
Where is the remote
I wanna rewind
What was on my mind?

This is no joke
Was I on some dope?
Smoking shag or sniffing coke
Is...

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Clarence A. Jennings Son of the World Now, Son of God

A baby named Clarence was given to a mother
at a tender yet an older age...

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{This "Free Verse" entry Received HONORABLE MENTIONS
              IN THE Intergenerational Poetry to...

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Friends came around 
upset and angry 
with their children
a child's fist
flew through the wall

It's your fault 
the child said
It's your fault
my life is like this

several...

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