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Old Poems: Post Poems older than 1 year here!
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mspersin- Normal Member
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mspersin- Normal Member
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Join date : 2010-05-10
Some poems I wrote in 2001 (When you were 3! ha!) about the environment. Ask me if you want to see more environment poems. You can reply to this poem (and tell me what you think) or you can reply to the intial OLD POEMS post and post your own old poems!
OLD POETRY
They haven't found a way to recycle it yet
So this is what happens to old poetry:
It lines the bottoms of library shelves
Cowering in thin volumes, centered
in the yellow drear of stale and starchy pages
That stick together indefinitely with perfumes
Dripped from librarians' shaky wrists.
It is spoken about sometimes in
Selective university circles, Xeroxed,
The poet's name memorized because it rhymes with "fussy"
And he used the word "auxiliary" twice.
That's repetition.
And of course, it is buried with its creator
Who truly understood the beauty of the semicolon.
Who rests peacefully not knowing how seldom
we crouch down to the bottom shelves
craning our necks and holding our breaths
As we open the sticky pages to graze.
OLD POETRY
They haven't found a way to recycle it yet
So this is what happens to old poetry:
It lines the bottoms of library shelves
Cowering in thin volumes, centered
in the yellow drear of stale and starchy pages
That stick together indefinitely with perfumes
Dripped from librarians' shaky wrists.
It is spoken about sometimes in
Selective university circles, Xeroxed,
The poet's name memorized because it rhymes with "fussy"
And he used the word "auxiliary" twice.
That's repetition.
And of course, it is buried with its creator
Who truly understood the beauty of the semicolon.
Who rests peacefully not knowing how seldom
we crouch down to the bottom shelves
craning our necks and holding our breaths
As we open the sticky pages to graze.
Lauren123- Normal Member
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Join date : 2010-06-10
Great poem Ms.Persin!
mspersin- Normal Member
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Join date : 2010-05-10
Am I the only one with old poems? C'mon!
Here's one I wrote during my student teaching. I was co-teaching a class of eleventh graders:
Seven Twenty
Students walk through the double doors
Their cheeks still pinched pink from the wind
Their arms long and gangly, like monkeys
Baring their teeth.
The sound of lockers opening and shutting
Books dropping to the floor
From clumsy hands
Overpowers the sound of my teacher shoes.
Two monkeys hug one another in a corner
Their arms tangled in each other's hair
Picking out the lice and louse eggs
Exchanging breakfasts
And I let them.
Here's one I wrote during my student teaching. I was co-teaching a class of eleventh graders:
Seven Twenty
Students walk through the double doors
Their cheeks still pinched pink from the wind
Their arms long and gangly, like monkeys
Baring their teeth.
The sound of lockers opening and shutting
Books dropping to the floor
From clumsy hands
Overpowers the sound of my teacher shoes.
Two monkeys hug one another in a corner
Their arms tangled in each other's hair
Picking out the lice and louse eggs
Exchanging breakfasts
And I let them.
princessofwerewolves- Moderator
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Join date : 2010-05-15
Age : 25
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Re: Old Poems: Post Poems older than 1 year here!
by princessofwerewolves Sun Jun 20, 2010 6:53 pm
Awesome Poem Ms.p
ASL- Administrator
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Join date : 2010-06-10
Age : 25
Guys, stop saying just, "Awesome poem [insert name here]".....say something that has some sort of meaning. :/
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