Best Homework Poems

Chaos ruled OK in the classroom
as bravely the teacher walked in
the nooligans ignored him
his voice was lost in the din
...

School, School, School,
A school is not so cool
We're here 5 days a week
8 hours a day.
...

Homage to Kenneth Koch


If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran
...

My pants could maybe fall down when I dive off the diving board.
My nose could maybe keep growing and never quit.
Miss Brearly could ask me to spell words like stomach and special.
(Stumick and speshul?)
...

Homework! Oh, Homework!
I hate you! You stink!
I wish I could wash you away in the sink,
if only a bomb
...

For my poems, my friend Valsa George has a hunger.
She’s over fifty, but, compared to me, she is younger.
She suggested I write about ‘the advantages of being old’.
It’s a challenge, but, Valsa, on this idea you have sold......
...

A seated statue of himself he seems.
A bronze slowness becomes him. Patently
The page he contemplates he doesn't see.
...

I started on my homework
but my pen ran out of ink.
My hamster ate my homework.
My computer's on the blink.
...

They never teach you this at school;
they'll try to teach you reading, writing, 'rithmetic
in their own instructed ways;
...

Ricky was 'L' but he's home with the flu,
Lizzie, our 'O,' had some homework to do,
Mitchell, 'E' prob'ly got lost on the way,
...

You "adults", you exasperate me
with your evasions and delays.
You're going to have to change
some of the ways that you behave.
...

The Homework Machine,
Oh, the Homework Machine,
Most perfect
contraption that's ever been seen.
...

is what we called her. The story was
that her father had thrown Drano at her
which was probably true, given the way she slouched
through fifth grade, afraid of the world, recess
...

Now I was hangin' round Nashville writin' songs and playin' 'em for all of the stars
Watchin' 'em laugh and hand 'em back livin' on hope and
...

I was then a young boy of ten.
Was doing homework, before the afternoon game.
The door was closed but the window open,
When I nearly finished, came a surprise, sudden.
...

Why do I hate my homework?
It is a pest like a brother
Or a sister of another
It is like a very boring book
...

Ever since I set foot in school for my new academic year
It looks like luck has abandoned me
My bus came late to pick me up for school
So guess who is punished, me!
...

You know that if there was one thing,
That you could take from school,
It wouldn't be art or math or history,
It would be work.
...

"Good morning, dear students," the principal said.
"Please put down your pencils and go back to bed.
Today we will spend the day playing outside,
then take the whole school on a carnival ride.
...

It is the fortune of poeple
that the shadows
of our futures do not
lie heavy
...

I am looking for a past
I can rely on
in order to look to death
with equanimity.
...

At fourteen I was just too ill at ease,
Tall for my age, boys would constantly tease…
They would snigger, and say here comes giraffe
I wished like Alice, I could shrink, as they laughed.
...

A stupid song plays inside my head
When I try to write a poem
It pushes back all the thoughts and lines
It clutters up my mind with foam
...

I cannot relax and read a book
There is always dinner to cook
I cannot think of staring into space
I may miss a chance in the rat race
...

The Teen Flower Arranger

Decades ago I arranged flowers
not as my profession,
...

Greeted by the rooster's usual crow
I watched the fishermen at sea
As their little boats began to row
The people were in a hustle bustle
...

Tiny little hands clasped my eyes
And a soft voice chirped guess who am I,
Who are you, sound familiar, let me see…
I won’t tell, how could you have forgotten me
...

Fathers come and fathers go
But this I have to say -
My father may be dead and gone
But I love him to this day;
...

A sweet little birdie has joined our nest
Anayah is her name, who takes little rest.
She keeps frolicking around all the time,
And accepts no time to be her bedtime.
...

My teacher ate my homework,
which I thought was rather odd.
He sniffed at it and smiled
with an approving sort of nod.
...

School Is Not So Cool


School, School, School,
...

homework again?
will this drudgery ever end?
what do they expect from someone like me
when i don't even know my a, b, c, s.
...

My friend got so much inspired by Robert Frost
That he decided to take the tough project
From the available two projects
He looked at both the project carefully
...

I don't remember when I lost my tenderness
And hardened into a thick shelled adult
No more innocent, no more gullible
Like a snake, I have peeled away my old self
...

There’s so much
we never know,
would never have guessed,
never asked,
...

All this talk, talk, talk
Teachers are assigning me homework
All I want, is to rock, rock, and rock
This homework is a stumbling block
...

I am witness to the lively conversation between
Indoor and outdoor plant and here it goes:

I am indoor plant, a plant meant to grow and live,
...

Prosody:
it’s about - it means - what poetry does,
and how. I guess..
In Greek, it just means ‘tune’. That
...

From heaven of a childhood life
A farewell to me you're sending,
The ever-loyal dear friends
...

Life was different
from then to now.
You can get away
with things easily.
...

Then
The sun turned cold
And abundance left lands
...

It all starts today,
Sun, games, and outdoor play.
Waves crashing and breaking on the shore,
Sand laying there, all piled up, just begging for more.
...

6th grade rushes on,
The work grows harder,
...

School,
Some things you like, Some you hate.
School,
Wake up at six, But you're still always late.
...

I'm sorry Mom, I'm sorry Mom
I must apologize for I'm wrong
I'm sorry Mom, I'm sorry Mom
I need a chance to be strong
...

Wake up, wake up! It's homework time,
Remember you promised to start by nine,
I heard my mother uttering these lines,
I think beginning the task in time,
...

It is the boy in me who's looking out
the window, while someone across the street
mends a pillowcase, clouds shift, the gutter spout
pours rain, someone else lights a cigarette?
...

There's nothing like the lovely rustic charm
Exuded by the far flung lush green country farm
Where trees in majesty sweep heaven with their crown
And birds, with celestial music, the surrounding valley drown
...

Enter CASCA and CICERO

CASCA: Tomorrow in the senate we shall have to work. Caesar will be sitting.
CICERO: An orator does not go out of fashion, I shall deliver a speech.
...

Some of your classes might be boring,
But don’t you dare get caught snoring.
Get your homework done,
Then go out and have some fun.
...

I cooked my math book in a broth
and stirred it to a steaming froth.
I threw in papers—pencils, too—
to make a pot of homework stew.
...

So how is life with your new bloke?
Simpler, I bet. Just one stroke
of his quivering oar and the skin
of the Thames goes into a spin,
...

I think about Mary,
The pieces of her story
As I know it:
Her childhood streets,
...

In old Rome everybody did his own work.
There were the slaves all over the world,
Unluckily the world has not changed,
Luckily those slaves could become freedmen.
...

Father and me

Tears rushed on cheeks
Even though I did not seek
...

It’s said that universal single mind,
as in a flash it flowers in our individual mind,
hastens first in two directions: polar opposites,
and then and thus, duality..
...

Just sitting near window as what to do
Completed my homework and have a very good mood!
Watching my friends working in their groups
No work for me then what to do?
...

Homework, I love you. I think that you're great.
It's wonderful fun when you keep me up late.
I think you're the best when I'm totally stressed,
preparing and cramming all night for a test.
...

I started on my homework,
but my pen ran out of ink…
My hamster ate my homework…
My computer's on the blink…
...

I hope that you believe me,
for I wouldn't tell a lie.
I cannot turn my science homework in
and this is why:
...

I miss you mom whenever I am
at school or at my homework see

I miss your hugs and kisses
...

Around 1608; a pleasant day in Cambridge;
eight men sit round a table. Originally there were nine:
Dr Lively who presided at their speedy start
is now departed their distinguished company;
...

Had the grandkids overnight
Dinner baths and do homework
Before TV - - - their Mom said
Before TV
...

I remember my childhood
Whenever I am in the mood

I remember my childhood
...

Ooh! Ow! ...I'm a victim! ...I've got a psychic scar! ...

not in my schooldays,
I have to say;
...

The gloom sets in from Sunday night
When your mom reminds you
'Go to sleep, its 8,
You have school tomorrow, don't you? '
...

Our house is not the biggest house…to some it may even seem small…
but I'm amazed at the amount of memories housed within its walls.

Our home has seen many seeds of love…planted…nurtured…encourage to bloom…
...

I haven't done my homework Dad!

(Dad) Well my boy that's very bad!
...

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed
By money and video games
As AIDS killed millions around the word
My life was haunted by the bullying of rich kids
...

Oh! My mama, happy mother’s day
You are the greatest mother I have ever had
You are my mother today
You will be my mother tomorrow
...

I don´t know why I am not able to look at him
What if I could do without this seriousness?
And see him face to face.
...

It was Mother's Day
And so...in traditional form
We celebrated with cards
And a few carefully chosen presents
...

If I were a child again
I'd wake up earlier than I used to
Mom won't be upset and then
The nuns won't get irked
...

A Poet understands their language of pain,
Who shed a drop or two of their tears,
Silently, here and there,
And wiping off their moist eyes,
...

Used and abandoned, ill sit in this chair
And cry my tears softly so no one can hear

Tired of bein used and hurt beyond repair,
...

Have you ever thought,
Maybe I just ought,
To have sought,
Just some other type of thought.
...

Look at the moon in the midst of
Vastly magnificent sky bed;
Hear the young winds among bamboo;
Feel the air – heavy with fragrance.
...

The stream still flows,
The stream, or windows...
Eyes of the blackened refuge
Of the damned.
...

To write "About Me", assignment # 1, for …
her ‘advanced' herb class teacher,
Aki thought of her youth in postwar Japan …
and the decades since, thus to reach her ….
...

I'll do my homework tomorrow,
I'll complete it in a flash!
I'm going swimming now,
Ma! you should see me splash!
...

Homework, said my teacher,
Is to write a poem,
About your fondest
Childhood memory
...

woke up in a tired body
after an endless night it did precede
exhausted by all homework and books
all the subjects, all the materials I took
...

I own a big fat cat-
The fattest for miles around
Wherever there's lots of food,
that's where he'll be found
...

Life was different
from then to now.
You can get away
with things easily.
...

Life is a series of demands. Hurry up, perform.
Do your homework, write a paper, oh and read 300 pages,
get in those volunteer hours, grab those lab credentials.
I get busy, caught up in projects and I forget stuff
...

Beware, Beware
When you don't
Do your,
Homework,
...

Let me give you some advice
Take it, leave it but be nice
If you take it, you will pass
If you leave it, you may pass
...

My dog does my homework
at home every night.
He answers each question
and gets them all right.
...

Specifics
Would include
Much more homework
To be placed near
...

It was so cool being a freashman
That, I must say
I got a lot of slack
And didn't get homework every day
...

Here, I sit full of gloom
All alone in my very own room
It's enough to make me weep..
All because of that little creep
...

My nephew Nick has the chicken pox and the time to read Tom Sawyer.
I gave him that that book and finally he's started his adventures.
However today I've taken his book for myself, lain down on the sofa.
For some hours I've been on the Mississippi banks with its steamers.
...

Attention all students! Attention all kids!
Hold onto your horses! Hold onto your lids!
We have just exactly the thing that you need
whenever you've way too much homework to read.
...

Far down this memory lane of mine,
I see the young face of my mother:
radiant and smiling whenever I smiled;
painful when I cried as a very small child.
...

I see light years ahead
My struggles, I see the payoff…
Not in prices of lands of corn fields
...

When I was 22 I met a girl,17, who was very slim and pretty.
She was kind of shy and had bad breath, but once she let me touch one titty.
Except for the bad breath and shyness she was my dream girl, I swear.
In fact from that day, when I dreamt, I dreamt of her (in underwear) .
...

होम वर्क! ओह होम वर्क!
मूल कवि: जैक प्रेलुस्की
हिंदी अनुवाद रजनीश मंगा द्वारा
...

Mamma, when will I grow tall like you
As now I am looked up by very few;
I wanna fit into Paapa's shoes
Now for me its very loose!
...

It's Sunday morning. It's bright and cool, the sort of fall morning that makes the world's problems seem like fake news. Peter and I are at the Marriott Courtyard, off campus. This morning's breakfast is Peter's 19th birthday present to me.

I'm redorkulously happy and surprisingly hungry. Somewhere, in the noisy, happy sounding kitchen, there's a bacon, cheddar-cheese, tomato, ham, green-pepper, and spinach omelette being convoked in my name, and my tummy is growling in anticipation.
...

Mummy aaj chutti hai, bolo haan aaj chutti hai
Abhi tho Shanivaar aur Ravivaar, kewal do hi din
Ghar par aap sangh manaye hain
Aaj Somvaar, sapthah ka phela din, chutti ke de do na thum
...