Best Alumnus Poems

Like a restless dog haunted by a place
where it vaguely recalls having buried
        long ago something personally precious,
...

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Annual reunions,
he keeps coming back
to this school campus

like a restless dog
haunted by a place
where it vaguely recalls

having buried long ago
something truly
precious!...

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He smilingly, smugly says to himself:

     "Ah, if only these kids knew

        I was...

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Godwin Adizue Ibeh 
(1937-2017)


Mr. Godwin Adizue Ibeh
Aged 79 years
Was and is 
My beloved, doting father
“Is” because he remains
Spiritually present 
Present 
In my memory
Present 
In pictures and mementos 
Present 
In my dreams,...

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 ( "Write the truest sentence you know."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald ) 


Variant plurals suffering suffixation's whims;
fly-tomatoes and the valley boo-mouse,
when the sheep...

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The rented hall ways so surreal.
Cheerful alumnus ranting sex appeal.
Forgive my dropping a time bomb.
Taking Mother to the prom.
Our student body didn't shake.
All others escorted...

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P ink is a color from the rainbow
Its the color candy floss
No other color is as quit as good
K it mite be a bit vibrant...

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Nay, despite failing to make the grade,
     this bluesy well red, duff mute 
     average white band...

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Mind differs from the body.
creed of what we embody.
Start with phonetic rhymes
We learn to grasp algorithms.

How do they stay most-given?
A team, that is one-driven.
Does one's...

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Winding my yearn to discovery's burn
'round your lips, as you riddle in whispers
Stripping the sugar off winsome lit words
which invisibly slide off your fingers
Crumbling the...

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mass austerity
within singularity
there's no clarity

flickers in darkness
motion overcomes starkness
throws off death's harness

gravity freeing
nothingness begets being
one lost in fleeing

the movement divides
that which expansion decides
existence abides

spawns evolution
universal...

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Hey! You free spirits!
You are so blessed!
Unlike me!

It's too tough
to stifle our emotions
inside a closed space.

Because it whirls round us
again and again
like the leaves swirl

But...

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Reputation Mind Tower



Alumni alumnus refuses to let the truth to surface on a mirrored pond of 
questioning students making efforts of understand just why they...

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A famous alumnus is visiting the university. I got an invitation several days ago to a small, socially distanced, masked, focus group. It was to...

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A feint attempt to stab myself...
quickly found the missus ready to faint

Like a madman possessed
by mailer daemon lemme acquaint
ye with the following verse, I will...

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