Substitute Poems

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Substitute

All In Your Head.

But Your Head
Holds All The Dreams.

-Gray Squirrel

05-08-2025
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Categories: substitute, life,
Form: Free verse

ABEL-CAN ANIMALS SUBSTITUTE HUMAN LOVE?

Well, there is someone for me now-
I thought as I bought him home from the pet-shop,
My boy had left me last week,
Now I have him to kiss my cheek
Ah! What a company!

I took him in my lap,
And showed him my house's little map,
Which I had made for the rose now faded,
Which was seen by the
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Categories: substitute, allusion, anger, anxiety, best
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberWhat Hope

What hope if I alone must strive
commandments to obey?
Could all my self-constructed good
withstand the Judgement Day?

Supposing I could keep one day
completely free from sin.
Would that be good enough from God
eternal life to win?

If I protest my innocence
before the accusing Word,
would that persuade the Righteous Judge
to leave my case unheard?

Nothing that I articulate
can contradict God’s Word;
indelible
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Categories: substitute, bible, faith, feelings, god,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Stuntman

There're a lot of
Strange, funny and weird stories 
It's common to be employed as a stuntman in acting 
But not to be employed for something evils
But not to be employed as a scapegoat
Maybe a ghost is looking for a substitute
But it's certainly ridiculous
To look for a stand-in for sickness
To look for a stuntman for your
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Categories: substitute, betrayal, evil, god, sick,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMet the New Art Substitute Teacher

We had a new art sub yesterday.
No surprise.
We have had nineteen art subs since March.
It is the last week of school.

Mr. G the new art sub was positive.
Energetic.
Glad to be here.
Told me he would finish out the week.

That was yesterday at 9:00.
Today at 9:10 I met Ms. Berkins.
A newer new art sub.
I welcomed her, and
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Categories: substitute, teacher,
Form: Prose Poetry


Premium MemberHow To Proliferate Flowers

Thumb crush caterpillar fuzz follicle woven wire bent
Pipe cleaner indetectibly clamps fluttery paper crepe
Tiny tear splinter injury etched on crinkled parchment
Puncture forms an institute to forthwith contemplate


Together classified as flower, louloudia beauty flaunt
Plumage lurid thrives beside finite petal flop contrast
Tactical iron hand velvet glove primes formal contort
Proclamations crafted after careful strategy prefaced


Ruffled rogue construct erects
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Categories: substitute, allusion, flower, philosophy, voice,
Form: Rhyme

There Is No Substitute For My Lovely Wife

There is no substitute for my lovely wife, 
I was convinced of this such many times.
 I know, you waiting from me a rich story
 But, I'm scared to be frank!  I'm very sorry!
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Categories: substitute, funny love, marriage,
Form: Quatrain

Substitute For Suicidal Ideation

I was told to change my ways
lift the haze
or lessened were my days to follow
I try my best
to get out of my chest
that which makes reality hard to swallow

After a while
I wore a smile
that you and I were grateful to see
But what can seem sublime
will fall to time 
and knock us to our knees

Sometimes we
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Categories: substitute, addiction, blessing, drug, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

Do You Have a Substitute

Do u have, a substitute?
Hey buddy!
This seems to be funny…
But this is true, my little bunny…
So let's answer this riddle,
She might be angry,
But never let you to stay hungry.
She not only makes dinner,
But she makes our day finer.
She not only makes you sleep, 
Gives you advices to the deep.
She wishes for the best,
And take care
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Categories: substitute, art, birth, first love,
Form: Rhyme Royal

Premium MemberQ-U-I Quit

Quiet!
Quotients
Quiz. . .

               ~Quantophrenia!

Quiet!
Quiz—
Quantify
Quotients. . .

               ~Question!

Quest :)

               ~Quantulate
    
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Categories: substitute, conflict, high school, math,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberThey Said I Did Not Have To Know Music

A spider a day keeps the apple away.
A spider a day makes the day oh so gray!
A spider a day, so it must be almost May!
At the top of our lungs now, everybody sing.

Spider! Spider! Spider!
Another teacher runs in. What are you doing?
Teaching them a new song.
Who are you?

I am a substitute teacher who kept
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Categories: substitute, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberThe Substitute Teacher

Tension from every corner of the room.
No one moved.
The gunman and the substitute teacher locked eyes.

She started laughing hysterically.
Not understanding why, hating herself for it.

Terrified because her traitorous body was laughing.
She dared not look at the other children in the room.

He showed her an expression she had never
seen before or since.  She had no
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Categories: substitute, america,
Form: Free verse

Mean Old Substitute Teacher

The teacher we all had grown to love,
Was nowhere to be found.
In walked this hefty, old man,
Who slammed his suitcase on the ground.
He had a beard like Santa Claus,
And was husky like him, too.
In fact, as I recall….
There was a huge hole in his left shoe.
He didn’t seem chipper or upbeat….
And he didn’t smile too
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Categories: substitute, 5th grade,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberSubstitute Teacher

substitute teacher
it’s really fun to have one—
they don’t follow rules

11/19/2018
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Categories: substitute, school,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberThe Substitute Teacher

The substitute teacher comes in all grins, giggles, and smiles.
Her resume’ runs on for a thousand and six hundred miles.
She is perky and ready, and thinks it is going to be fun.
By noon she’s ready to call it quits we even saw one run.
Her hair is all crisp and clean when she enters our school.
She
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Categories: substitute, humorous, teacher,
Form: Rhyme

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