Best Degree Poems

I stand and watch inside this prison gate,
Wondering how I got here, was this to be my fate?
I only did what any man would do,
While trying to protect his family from people like you.

All through life I kept my record clean,
I followed the laws I...

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are we crazy or just contrived 
lazy or simply self-involved? 
are we insignificant, significant 
or just like everyone else 
deranged on the outside 
swimming through dead oceans in our heads 

am i death or am i over-simplified 
is my breath as thick as the painted...

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Living a life full of confusion
Just trying to figure it all out
Hope I can find some solution
To rid myself of all this doubt

Wanting to do it the right way
Yet it's a never ending battle
Matters not what they all say
Like my soul they try to rattle

I...

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My devious plot worked
A beautiful woman talked to me!
All because of my shirt!

I might as well have been superman
All decked out in Canadian Red
If only I had anticipated........

If only my tongue was not tied
Around my neck like rope
I might have had more etiquette

I might have...

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It has always been my naïve, farm-boy assumption,
That one attends college to attain a degree of gumption!

And furthermore that Daddy sends his kid to college,
Not so much to party but to obtain a modicum of knowledge!

I assume that the autocrats who abide in Washington D.C.,
Have...

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Have you ever wondered? 
Being in an adult blunder 
A reason for going to class 
Besides the well-known intellectual pass 
Is it to learn the alphabet?
Addition subtraction you may get
Going to the swing set for fun 
After morning school work is done 
Lessons get tougher...

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Who would guess after all these years
I'm a dog lover to the nth degree
Owe it to our Golden we've named her Annie
Sure won me over OOOOEEEE!

Can't wait each morn for the wag of her tail
She's badly in need of a pee
Charging through the house, she...

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This is the year of reinventing yourself
No matter what it takes
The jack of all trades is upon us

When you can no longer 
Dunk with perfect impunity
You have to play the game differently
Grab an organization degree
To top off the all star lunancy
And sit tight with middle...

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"...AND SHE HAS A DEGREE"


there has been much said
about my poetry, my words,
my life and eyes.
"Eddie, don't you think of
women as anything else?"
it's always best not to say ****.
if you lack the brain power
to understand the difference 
between a whore and a woman,
abandon all hope...

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Because this here is your passing 
out parade doth your cap and gown

This here I don't know if you if you are 
aware or know it yet

But also the end of what was once
your student life I hope you kissed
it a fond farewell and goodbye

As...

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An innocent miracle abandoned like a mistaken memory,
no saving grace for her who has a heartbeat at only weeks old-
There is no reason to take a life, no matter the circumstance,
when she could have had loving arms around her to hold.

Murder in the first degree-
...

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"The Third Degree"

I’m thinking, if I am to commence this degree next year, then perhaps easier to have cats. I can’t leave a dog alone in the apartment all day. Unless I do the entire degree on-line. 

I dreamt last night I had two cats,...

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Once knew a gentleman from New York City
Some thought him masculine, I thought him pretty
Effeminate to a degree
Wearing short shorts, oouueee!
It's maybe why his buddies try to smother him with kissies


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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I do this each year, usually November
The box is heavier than I remember
I lift off the lid, inhale the odour
First it's the Yardley my Dad used to wear
A giant birthday card, a 21st treat
Hides the treasures I buried beneath
A removal of this, I'm suddenly there
Back...

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I was drawn to the title and the rules of this contest,
Indeed, it tickled my fancy, enticed, and energized me,
As I feel the need to give substance to my earnest quest,
And a platform to be able to tell either she or he,	
How by studying for...

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