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Tryouts Poems - Poems about Tryouts

Premium Member ginger
... ginger tabby cat volleyballing crinkle toy for home team tryouts AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on March 23, 2025......

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Categories: tryouts, cat, fun, games,
Form: Haiku
When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus
...When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus Mental health of yours truly heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac) aside f......

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Categories: tryouts, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member More Jazz Please
...My roommates Leong, Sophie, (Charles) and I were coming from a Yale sporting event. The sky looked like a dirty Swiffer-mop and the wind seemed to be ignoring the posted 20mph speed limit. It was a t......

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Categories: tryouts, food, friendship, fun, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member School Dazed
...Angels. How many they asked Could dance on the head of a pin? I’m thinking Why are they dancing Don’t they have wings? Rocks Could God make one So big He couldn’t lift it? I’m thinking ......

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Categories: tryouts, childhood, school,
Form: Free verse
Take Me Out of Waiting On Ghetto's Dream
...Laziness ascribe my tryouts to stream; I keep struggling to swim, through poverty. Take me out of waiting on ghetto's dream! Waiting on turns, enrage hope's light agleam... Shinning possibly of......

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Categories: tryouts, anxiety, art, childhood, freedom,
Form: Villanelle



A Letter To My Mother
...From dusk to dawn Sunrise to sundown This I will never forget Your kisses that always left me in a comfort And a bliss that no grief could ever secrete A mile-wide-smile and sweet That never......

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Categories: tryouts, cry, death, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nate Sestina's Sestina
...Sometimes things don’t work out as planned not that Nate planned it, such is basketball love and strong are the threads of the basketball net. He hooped all summer, sweating on outdoor court be......

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Categories: tryouts, basketball, dream, life,
Form: Sestina
Symphonic Quiescent Overture Maestro Kant Imitate
...Symphonic Quiescent Overture – Maestro Kant Imitate (alternately titled: a retrospective review randomly selecting an outdated poem stored within Apple icloud queue methinks ye might might sa......

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Categories: tryouts, 12th grade, adventure, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Disorganized Sports
...When we were young, we'd freely roam While supervision stayed at home. We played the seasons' major sports On vacant lots and playground courts. No tryouts or permission slips. No uniforms ......

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Categories: tryouts, freedom, friendship, games, history,
Form: Quatrain
Symphonic Quiescent Overture Maestro Kant Imitate
...Tryouts starring musical prodigies  and/or an attendant conductor attempt to approach ambient chorus divinely exhibited from Gaia's handiwork heavenly invoking kapellmeister's magnificent noncha......

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Categories: tryouts, age, allegory, angst, confusion,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Dragon of Oz
...Dragon had the acting bug! He wanted that big brass ring. If the Sheriff of CrazyLand could act, then… so could He! I told him tryouts for the Wizard of Oz were going on, this week. So Dragon went......

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Categories: tryouts, celebrity, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member See This Girl
...See this girl in the painting, this skinny girl working on a puzzle at the bottom of the stairs. With big rimmed glasses and her plain brown hair, she’s an ordinary girl, with nothing seeming spe......

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Categories: tryouts, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wisdom
...WISDOM He had a thought, He said a word, He performed an act. Looked back! The word didn’t agree with The thought, Neither did the act with The word. He was perplexed! He forg......

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Categories: tryouts, education, wisdom,
Form: Epigram
Root of a Sole
...Like an eagle you’ve watched me grow, Forested me with love since I knew how to crawl, How can I forget the wings that protected me from cold? Cuddling down my mortal sole, Warming words of......

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Categories: tryouts, love, mother, me, world,
Form: Rhyme
The Last One Picked
...My palms would sweat. I’d get physically sick. Why was I always the last one they’d pick? There were times I would not be selected at all, for a physical game, I was pretty darn small. I watche......

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Categories: tryouts, inspirational, sports, upliftingdad, god,
Form: Rhyme

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