Textbook Poems


My English Textbook

You're awesome to read,
For all to say not to be greed.
Enriched with emotions and feel,
Bring the inspirational zeal.

Teach us unity in diversity,
Even about film's creativity.
Comedy, tragedy and fantasy
Blended in tons of quality.

Grammar, glamour and humanity
Incited on environmental generousity.
Discourses as the methodology
To deal with the child's ideology.

Teacher as the sculptor of scripture
Carving the citizens of Indian
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Categories: textbook, 10th grade, books, child,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTextbook Execution

blindfolded and bound 
           open fire ~ or sex appeal 
        sparks burst from the hearth


By
David Kavanagh
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Categories: textbook, death, feelings, lust,
Form: Senryu


The Damaging Testimonial of Billy Burn

To whom it may concern,
Wishing to more learn
About the bearer, our ex-student,
He was a Great Sympathizer of ‘The Imprudent’…

Worldly wise and to a fault bright,
He was to become a familiar sight
In nearby restaurants selling African Salad
And European marmalade;
For both, often parting with four British pounds
The former sometimes ordering in mounds…

Was seldom appearing in our school
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Categories: textbook, education, fashion, freedom, judgement,
Form: Rhyme

Textbook Texan

As I walked down the streets of Laredo
I spied a Mexican hot potato
But better by far
A Cuban cigar
With a spicy Comanche tomato
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Categories: textbook, culture, food, lust, native
Form: Limerick

Human Society Is a Textbook

Look at society White or Black-
Capitalist, Communist or feudal;
take your pen and scribble this poem
I am telling you this 1st, January, 2018

Human society is a textbook.
It has title and chapters within
All have opening sentences,
but some without any valid points

Many humans live as spelling errors,
appear as corrections or untidy writing,
They are wrong contents and concepts
Readers always
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Categories: textbook, life, metaphor, music, society,
Form: Lyric


In Dream,I Was Reading Maths Textbook

In dream, I was 
reading maths 
textbook.
I gained a lot knowl 
of the highbook.
From my bed I leap
when I woke from 
sleep
to notice I was 
chatting on 
facebook.
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Categories: textbook, funny
Form: Limerick
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