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Truancy Poems - Poems about Truancy

Premium Member Shattered
... SHATTERED Theme: Indulgence 1) Free Verse First published as Addiction, 2021 Did the scarecrow ever leave Oz, put his new brain in a bucket by the door like an unwanted......

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Categories: truancy, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark dances in the light with my BLIND BROTHER-
... I have a blinded man from birth as a brother Spent time with him first ten years. We sat in the kitchen floor playing bongos And congas on mom’s pots and pans Every time my parents woul......

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Categories: truancy, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Verse



Signs Along the Roadway Detour Ahead
...Going awol when needed the most Choosing truancy an uncaring ghost Stealing my voice In your offhanded way Invalidating the least little thing I might say or twist it untill the true meanin......

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Categories: truancy, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Drop Out You Shall
...At school played silly truancy, Back came with hateful pregnancy! She’d just intended The Irksome. For being by custom troublesome’…. But it was all too venturesome, Beauty giving a son han......

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Categories: truancy, adventure, education, image, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stranger In a Strange Land
...I sat in my yard, revering to the sublime splendor.  A Setting sun lighted wheat fields with a gold fender.  The universe is a celestial art by a creator in the sky, Waves of fuchsia p......

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Categories: truancy, adventure, analogy, anxiety, community,
Form: Rhyme



If I Open a School
...If I open a school, You’ll worship every rule; To begin to touch a Tool A Proven Settled Fool: A Pond to Swimming Pool Now A Horse, once A mule: One who would a crowd pull; In number my classe......

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Categories: truancy, child, confidence, devotion, dream,
Form: Rhyme
All the Kids Aged Twelve Gone
...When I got there, I saw none: All the kids aged Twelve gone; The Dreamers to be University Don; Plus the one I knew would be A CON His case files already weighing a ton And should make The Faint......

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Categories: truancy, child, childhood, education, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Addiction
...Did the scarecrow ever leave Oz, put his new brain in a bucket by the door like an unwanted umbrella, then go jogging back down the yellow brick road to his post in the cornfield? Did the crow......

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Categories: truancy, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Ignorance
...Who can bear a trouble of another? but the ignorant impose that by leading people to accept their whim and trouble because that is only what they can muster to the world if it is a lie why, wh......

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Categories: truancy, love,
Form: Free verse
The Future Claimed
...Moments of clarity stop the clock, but time rolls on and on Unrecorded, to stay embedded in each wish unfulfilled Tranquilizing the fleeting doubt that truancy sets free Returning with ......

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Categories: truancy, time,
Form: Free verse
The One Who Had Potential, Part V
...V. From the day it seemed that things just got worse, she started handing with less-than-great friends, and more than once she was caught cutting class, more and more Miles could feel his heart r......

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Categories: truancy, brother, change, depression, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Grace and Solitude
...Emerging from sleep dream temerity, his remote aurora spectral prisms from which his wakefulness gives legerity, from which surfaces new burgeoning aphorisms. Truth’s contours arrayed in fluid......

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Categories: truancy, grief, hope, humanity, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wind Blows Cold
...Revelation comes and goes like the tides by moon’s bent sometimes rising to the cause when not pulling away from shore inconsistent if truth be told even though the will is strong wishing som......

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Categories: truancy, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Voice of the Oppressed
...The grandeur of my life are elusive Mine ain't melioration; it's oppression My free life is cramped by chains of servitude And shout out loud I mustn't Because even the power of my tongue is tie......

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Categories: truancy, bullying, corruption, discrimination, political,
Form: Political Verse
Blues, Cues and Shoe Stews
...Refuse to hang the innocent While your gang acquits the guilty In a tooth for a tooth pronouncement You state in collusion with the mighty. Accuse with the ruse in your news dissidents Whipped......

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Categories: truancy, poems,
Form: Free verse

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