Among the first we learn is good-bye,
your tiny wrist between Dad's forefinger
and thumb forced to wave bye-bye to Mom,
whose hand sails brightly behind a windshield
From "First Gestures" by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
A Roundup of Poems about School:
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From "One A.M." by David Young |
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Pledge by Elizabeth Powell |
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Sentimental Education by Mary Ruefle |
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All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare |
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Theme for English B by Langston Hughes |
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We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks |
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Mary's Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale |
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The Junior High School Band Concert by David Wagoner |
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The Testing-Tree by Stanley Kunitz |
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Sick by Shel Silverstein |
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Evening Walk as the School Year Starts by Sydney Lea |
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Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School by Christopher Bursk |
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In Michael Robins’s class minus one by Bob Hicok |
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Apples by Grace Schulman |
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Art Class by James Galvin |
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The Hand by Mary Ruefle |