Best Aggies Poems
This Year's Champion, Collaboration With Patricia CreswellIt’s the last of the snow
Spring finally arrived
Time to get ready for battle
Time to get my little hands
On my bag of marbles
Way up there since winter
Abandoned on my bookshelf
A droopy, limp blue velvet bag
But today a long lost friend
So proud, so bold and so...
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Categories:
aggies, childhood, confidence, games, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
This Years ChampionThis Year’s Champion
It’s the last of the snow
Spring finally arrived
Time to get ready for battle
Time to get my little hands
On my bag of marbles
Way up there since winter
Abandoned on my bookshelf
A droopy, limp blue velvet bag
But today a long lost friend
So proud, so bold...
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Categories:
aggies, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Living In BrooklynFlatbush . . . Bedford Stuyvesant . . . Saint Jerome's . . .
Our Lady of Good Counsel School . . . The Sisters of Mercy . . . The Franciscan Brothers.
Double features at the Farragut movie on Saturday A.M.:
The Mummy's Curse and Abbot &...
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Categories:
aggies, change, childhood, culture, growing
Form:
Free verse
A Festive 24 HoursAs the day turned
Fighting Irish were certainly concerned
Waiting for a meeting
With an Aloha greeting
Aggies promoting the lone star
Trying to clear the collegiate hardwood bar
Hoping something is left in their athletic jar
But...
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Categories:
aggies, america, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme