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Loc: Poetry 180: Break

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This site shares a one-stanza poem about a family that is working on a puzzle together, taking a break from a world with problems.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen

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This five-stanza non-prose autobiographical piece shares what the poet reminsces about her sixteenth year in the early 1960's.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fight

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This two-stanza poem describes a couple's different opinions about their lives in Florida.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Distances

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This two-stanza poem describes a dark starry night in the beautiful outdoors.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?

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This seven-stanza poem gives advice to poets who are just starting out in their writing careers.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Cord

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The one-stanza poem compares the reach of a phone cord to the long reach of her mother.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Bat

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This five-stanza poem describes the nocturnal bat.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Neglect

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This eight-stanza poem describes a neglected fruit tree that will not bear healthy fruit.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Poet

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This three-stanza gives non-complimentary characteristics about a poet.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Radio

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This multi-stanza poem describes scenarios where a radio was stolen out of a car.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Bad Day

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This single-stanza poem describes the bad day of an elf who has the job of a tailor.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Farewell

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This two-stanza poem is about trust and distrust.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Tour

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This short two-stanza poem implies the importance of looking at things in two different ways.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Before She Died

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This five stanza poem discusses the top of a poet's dog who is dying.
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Loc: Poetry 180: One Morning

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This two-stanza poem uses strong sensory imagery to describe upsetting discoveries one morning.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Meadow

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This three-stanza poem describes a poet who asks questions about her soul.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen

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This five-stanza poem describes life as a teenager hanging out with friends at the swimming pool.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Hand Shadows

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This one-stanza poem describes a father demonstrating hand shadows while camping in a tent.
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Loc: Poetry 180: She Didn't Mean to Do It

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This three-stanza poem creates a feeling of mystery, pain, and sadness.
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Loc: Poetry 180: In a Wall

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This five-stanza poem shares a story of a boy helping his father retrieving a dog that had fallen down a well.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Poetry of Bad Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
This seven-stanza poem includes words and phrases that are commonly associated wit the weather.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Nights

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This three-stanza poem explains that she really does not want anything other than rest.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fault

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This four-stanza poem's topic of a mother worrying about her son so much that is is to a fault.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Thanks for Remembering Us

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This two-stanza poem describes the event of receiving an arrangement of flowers by mistake.

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