Poems For High School Students
Published: October 2017
These poems are great to use with high schoolers because they help develop critical thinking and analytical skills. In addition to academic benefits, these poems also deal with difficult and thought-provoking topics of life. They include themes such as death, betrayal, brokenness, and disappointments. Many high schoolers have faced ups and downs of life, and they will find these poems relatable. Some poems in this collection have been written by famous poets such as Maya Angelou and Pablo Neruda.
27 Poems To Use With High School Students In Grades 9-12
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Demons Of Darkness
She stood on the bridge
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In silence and fear,
For the demons of darkness
Had driven her here.Featured Shared StoryThis is such an inspiring poem. I am a seventh grader with depression and it is because of my loving boyfriend that I am still alive. Please, anyone who is depressed, know that there is...
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I Tried So Hard
Analysis of Form and Technique
I tried so hard.
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I tried my best.
I gave you my all,
And now there's nothing left.Featured Shared StoryHe was my first love We started dating while I was in high school. He was at university. We were so much in love, promising each other that we would be together forever. He taught me how to...
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If
Famous Poem
If you can keep your head when all about you
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Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:Featured Shared StoryI was never an avid reader nor appreciated poetry most of my life. My dad sent me this poem for my 28th birthday, printed along with a lovely card. Living many miles away from him I often...
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A Broken Family Tree
Analysis of Form and Technique
I am one of many
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Small branches of a broken tree,
Always looking to the ones above
For guidance, strength and security.Featured Shared StoryI echo all the stories that have gone before mine. It's amazing, it's moving, it's a poem written with so much feeling and depth. Family should be everything - supportive, comforting,...
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My Melody
Analysis of Form and Technique
Amazing and beautiful,
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not a flower or a tree.
Much prettier than that,
and only I can see.Featured Shared StoryBeautiful poem. I love it. One of my favorite poems from Familyfriendspoems.com .
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Phenomenal Woman
Famous Poem
Analysis of Form and Technique
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
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I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.Featured Shared StoryPhenomenal Woman By Maya Angelou this poem is a Classic that deals with every women in the world. This poem shows that beauty is compare by what society thinks a woman should looked like,...
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Time Does Not Bring Relief (Sonnet II)
Famous Poem
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
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Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;Featured Shared StoryI relate to her deep pain, I lost my precious son Chris a little over 3 years ago, suddenly. Now my heart and my soul are shattered forever on this earth, my life altered. I'm yet in that...
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When Great Trees Fall
Famous Poem
When great trees fall,
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rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,Featured Shared StoryI have also lost a son, a baby boy. Back then I was very grieved by that experience. I was told by people that loved me and helped support me to quickly heal and get over the way I felt, even...
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Be The Best Of Whatever You Are
Famous Poem
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
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Be a scrub in the valley — but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.Featured Shared StoryTwo years ago I was in depression and isolated. I felt frequently that I was worthless and deserved no love, no appreciation, no friends. I kept myself aloof from everyone, thinking that I...
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Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
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Write, for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'Featured Shared StoryNeruda's poem resonates. Letting go is a process, when love is not requited anymore. How is it possible to do so easily? It is not. Today we are constantly surrounded by memories. The pain...
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See It Through
Famous Poem
When you’re up against a trouble,
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Meet it squarely, face to face;
Lift your chin and set your shoulders,
Plant your feet and take a brace.Featured Shared StoryI was feeling down, discouraged, confused and all sorts of unpleasant ways today. Going through a failed marriage, raising two young boys by myself, but moreover struggling with my own...
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One Hundred Love Sonnets
Famous Poem
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
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or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.Featured Shared StoryThis poem touched my heart in ways that I didn't even know was possible. I never thought I would be able to understand my own heart as well as I do now. This poem completely captures the way...
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Caged Bird
Famous Poem
Analysis of Form and Technique
The free bird leaps
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on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current endsFeatured Shared StoryI remember this poem from my guided reading class in 5th grade. I remember it well. This poem really touched me, and reading it again just made my day. This poem, I remember it being about...
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United
in Inspirational Poems by Teens
Do we stay silent
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Or raise our voices?
Do we give in
Or make our choices?Featured Shared StoryHi Erica! I read all your poems... they're beautiful I know you posted this years ago but I really miss your poems, I don't know why you're not posting anymore but I hope you're...
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I Measure Every Grief I Meet
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I measure every Grief I meet
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With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has an Easier size.Featured Shared StoryPenny, you are so right to be honest and tell it like it is for you because that's how I feel as well. It's ok not to be ok. My daughter died on May 23, 2019, of a drug overdose. She had...
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It's Fine Today
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Sure, this world is full of trouble
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I ain't said it ain't.
Lord, I've had enough and double
Reason for complaint;Featured Shared StoryWow, this poem gives a cool perspective on life. This poem makes one realize worrying doesn't help.
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Acquainted With The Night
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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
Featured Shared StoryEach word of the poem is uttering its deep pain in the darkness of night. Highly weighted poem like any other poem of him. Only the one who has gone through this sea of sorrow can understand...
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Storm At Sea
in Ocean Poems
Analysis of Form and Technique
CRASHING waves... SMASHING seas...
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Bringing sailors to their knees.
As they struggle to save their lives,
Hoping and praying help arrives.Featured Shared StoryThis poem brought a tear to my eye and I love the way that the author has written this particular poem. It definitely is top in my book.
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Life Is Fine
Famous Poem
in Famous Poems
I went down to the river,
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I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.Featured Shared StoryEveryone is born for a purpose, but we forget that in pursuit of money. Then God gifted me with poetry and uses it as a medium to educate people, and in each of my poems there is a story...
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Choice
Famous Poem
I'd rather have the thought of you
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To hold against my heart,
My spirit to be taught of you
With west winds blowing,Featured Shared StoryI have never read anything by Angela Morgan, but this truly speaks to me right now.
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