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Loc: Poetry 180: Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?

For Students 9th - 10th
This three-stanza non-prose piece shares a father's point of view about his son, but the father sometimes forgets that his son is now grown.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Smoking

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem discusses the topic of smoking.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Gratitude to Old Teachers

For Students 9th - 10th
In this two-stanza non-prose piece, the poet expresses gratitude for old teachers.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Near the Wall of a House

For Students 9th - 10th
This four-stanza poem speaks of the poet's positive insights about love.
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Loc: Poetry 180: To a Daughter Leaving Home

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem expresses the thoughts regarding her daughter who is leaving her family's home.
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Loc: Poetry 180: After Years

For Students 9th - 10th
This one-stanza non-prose piece is a love poem.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Turtle

For Students 9th - 10th
This one-stanza poem describes a turtle's physical and mental traits.
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American Poems: Rotary

For Students 9th - 10th
This fifteen-stanza poem shares a meditation on the old rotary phone.
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Loc: Poetry 180: A New Poet

For Students 9th - 10th
This six-stanza poem describes the characteristics of a new poet.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Birth Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This three-stanza poem expresses his mother's joy in giving birth to her daughter.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Do You Love Me?

For Students 9th - 10th
This seven-stanza poem shares a scene of a girl questioning a dog to see if it loves her.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Courtesy of the Blind

For Students 9th - 10th
In this seven-stanza poem, the poet writes about the experience of reading her poetry to the blind. She grows increasingly uncomfortable as they cannot see the images in her words, yet they are courteous to a fault and smile and applaud...
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Loc: Poetry 180: Morning

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem shares the poet's happiness when her cat appears.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Hate Poem

For Students 9th - 10th
In five stanzas, the poet reflects on items in her life that are detested.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Leaving the Island

For Students 9th - 10th
This six-stanza poem shares the sadness in leaving an island home after a vacation of fun and relaxation.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem expresses that the act of paying attention to the little things in life is a form of prayer.
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Loc: Poetry 180: One Day a Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem tells a story from the poet's imagined news story.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem explains the painful process involved in making legal pads.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Locals

For Students 9th - 10th
This multi-stanza poem describes people who seem to "belong" in their local setting.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Her Head

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose, five-stanza piece, the poet describes her amazement of a woman who is carrying water on her head in Natal, South Africa.
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Loc: Poetry 180: My Moral Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This three-stanza poem shares a message about speaking out in support of issues to get people elected who will make a difference.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Once Upon a Time There Was a Man

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem shares a poem in the form of a fairy tale.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Dandelion

For Students 9th - 10th
This nine-stanza poem combines botany and an adolescent's view of home life into a greater statement.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Ox Cart Man

For Students 9th - 10th
A five-stanza poem about a man who gathers potatoes, shears sheep, and makes products that he sells at market. Then he sells his cart and ox and returns home to spend the winter making a new harness and cart before repeating everything...

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