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Loc: Poetry 180: One Day a Woman

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This single-stanza poem tells a story from the poet's imagined news story.
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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: 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: Break

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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: 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: 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: Bad Day

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Before She Died

For Students 9th - 10th
This five stanza poem discusses the top of a poet's dog who is dying.
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Loc: Poetry 180: In a Wall

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Fault

For Students 9th - 10th
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: Sidekicks

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-stanza poem describes the sidekicks of superheroes.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Marcus Millsap: School Day Afternoon

For Students 9th - 10th
This one-stanza poem describes a farmboy's thoughts before, and especially, after school.
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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: Halloween

For Students 9th - 10th
This one-stanza poem gives a haunting message about the carving of a pumpkin during the season of Halloween.
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Loc: Poetry 180: White Eyes

For Students 9th - 10th
This nine-stanza poem shares a description of a bird that is preparing its winter nest.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Lesson

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-stanza poem shares a poem from a father to his son.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
This one-stanza poem describes a half-moon in an original way.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Space Heater

For Students 9th - 10th
This single-stanza poem describes the poet's gratefulness for the space heater.
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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: 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: Turtle

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