Best Loyola Poems
I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than ninety-nine righteous people who do not need repentance. Luke 15:7
We don't go to the doctor just for the fun of it.
We may be sick, or need a check-up,
or want the doctor's advice about healthy living.
There are many reasons to go to God in prayer
but none as important
as seeking a cure for our spiritual illness
and restoring our relationship with God.
After all, Jesus says
there will be great joy in heaven
over the one who repents.
When we repent, we come to ourselves in truth
and recognise our very real need
for God's forgiveness.
Then, we are ready to be washed in God's love.
Loving God,
you know everything that is in our hearts.
Help us to trust in your love
that we may turn to you in our sinfulness and be healed.
Inspired by St. Ignatius of Loyola
Once there was a beauty by name Victoria alias Vitty
my wife,my Cinderella, my love, my good mate Vitty
"love till we wear"
"All for you dear"
bloody this Cinderella is no Loyola shop to pity!
Barely weeks of seven of the orgy
Space crash of 117 people in a Bellview
Tragedy came knocking
This time harder with anger to
Ginger blood off its hunger
Unto the street of heaven came the commotion
On the Flyers descendant to the open
Field in the Rivers of Port-Harcourt
Emerge the Sosoliso Tsunami
Sixty future seeds of the Nation with
Fourty eight others including the Woman of God
Who churn out words for the Bachelors and Spinsters
Burnt into ashes as the Flyer caught fire with power
Before their very eyes they got burnt with
The Sosoliso bird of 1145 providing the
Shield to which the fire fired in Port-Harcourt
Parents of the future seeds of Ignatius Loyola Jesuit
Were garbed with the toga of helplessness
Other loved ones waiting at the open field
To receive them, had the cap of loneliness on
But for one survivor they had all perished
Burnt for their Negligence
Burnt for their palpable Levity
Burnt for their Greediness
To whom shall we point accusing
Finger of Sosoliso Tsunami?
Unto whose neck shall we hang
The blood of the Innocent lives of Bellview 117?
Unto whose head shall we heap all these
Garbage of calamity and catastrophe?
Who shall replace the three shinning
Future seeds of the Ilabor family?
Unto them that sold the People’s
Fliers for surplus value
Unto them at the top of the Rock
Who loot and siphon cowries meant for the People
Unto them I say ,Unto those who shirks their
Responsibilities and hang it on Private mediocres
Unto them whose insidious desire is to sell
Our land and the inhabitants
Unto them whose long throats and wicked eyes
Is driven only by profit
Unto them all who shall be burnt into
Ashes of Filthy history and memories
Alayande Stephen .T
14th of December,2005
11.23pm
For Victims of Bellview 117 and Sosoliso 108
Those that Nigerian Government sent on a
Mission impossible on air for their negligence
And looting galore in the Aviation Industry
D. Trump
we dumped
Ted Cruz
you lose
Cuomo
should go
Newsom's*
gruesome
Biden's
hidin'
Faucci's
grouchy
Meghan's
ragin'
Harry's
scary
Queen Mom's
aplomb
Prince Charles
just snarls
ISIS
crisis
Iran
new bomb
Kim Jong
King Kong
Bit coin
come join
T-bonds
abscond
Oil price
up twice
Brit Spears
cry tears
Doc Seuss
cut loose
Big Dance*
short pants
Sis Jean*
Prom Queen
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*Notes:
Newsom - California governor whom voters are trying to recall
The 'Big Dance' is a nickname for the NCAA basketball tourney,
which begins this week.
Sis Jean is Sister Jean, a 101 year-old nun who works at Loyola
University, which made the 'Big Dance' for the second time in the
last four years. At age 98, she accompanied the team to the 'Dance,'
sat on the bench, hugged and cheered players, even gave them
advice(!) and Loyola came made it to the Final Four! Wow! This year,
she's going back again, at 101! What a gal!
Compounds and Elements
It's painful to recall my so head full or rocks.
Inorganic chemistry was for me, plain, mysterious bedrock!
Luckily my chemistry partner must have been from heaven sent.
To me, with a brain made of rock hard cement.
Fires I started and experiments exploded!
My professor stared at me~ I saw his mind being imploded.
This was at Loyola University in Chicago,that's right near the lake.
I think I prayed at night for God my soul to take!
I was sure I was going to fail this course.
I stared at my student nurse's face with total remorse.
The day for final grades,so horribly came,
I figured he would fail this dizzy dame.
To the professor's office I went with my knees knocking.
I was about to learn something totally shocking.
He was such a sweet, short, lovely man sitting,
with a smile on his face.
I had the feeling, perhaps I would not be disgraced!
" I know how good a nurse you will be.
So I decided not to fail you, but give you a D!"
Happy as a lark,as grateful, as can be.
I went to our Madonna De La Strada Chapel, thanking the
Lord for sending this compassionate professor to me.
July 28, l2020
4pm PST
This is a factual account of some of the
best days of my life at Loyola.
"Ad Majorem Dei Gloria"
In his youth,
he was as Loyola,
a soldier, then he was converted
and became a priest.
He succored and strengthen
the Catholic prisoners,
uplifting their faint bodies
with a new spirit of faith.
After 20 years’ labor,
he was arrested and condemned
for his priestly character,
for true faith
and led by his oppressors
to martyrdom.
He was martyred
at York In 1597.
Sister Jean, a national treasure
burst on the scene five years ago
her Loyola Ramblers took the NCAAs by storm
and Sister Jean's quiet life was transformed
Now it's five years later
Loyola's going nowhere fast
But our fascination with Jean
has yet to pass ...
Interviewed last week at 103
She'd heard of a gal age 114
Faced her audience squarely and insisted
"Now that's just too darn old to be!"
We've heard of ALS
as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a cause to pray on our knees
But Lou Gehrig felt he was
"the luckiest man on earth"*
the Yankees, and his wife
the main reasons for mirth
Thankful for his life
though with illness cut short**
at ease in his disease
what an awfully good sport
(* regarding his farewell speech at Yankee stadium
** like in the Principle and Foundation of St. Ignatius of Loyola!) :)
....On Receiving my Nursing Cap......
On the shores of Lake Michigan, I bowed my head,
and received my nursing cap.
At Madonna de LaStrada Chapel, long before the
days there was a life overcome with Apps!
In those days we wore uniforms, white stockings
and white shoes.
Rules were strict, there was no " dress as you like"
loose rules.
I miss those days, of caring directly for others.
Learning to give injections, scared the life out of me
and my nursing school sisters and brothers!
I admire those who give their days and nights, to
work with the very ill.
But memories of wrapping dead bodies in bags,
still gives me a chill!
There were no computers back then, we wrote notes
neatly down.
At bedtime, we gave those who chose, a wonderful
massage and nightly rub down!
Midway through nursing school, God sent to me,
my love!
I gave up nursing school, eloped, and became both
wife, and turtedove!
Still, those tender moments, I love so to recall.
Loyola University, in Evanston, Saint Francis Hospital,
And caring for my patients, most of all!
3/28/2021
~1~
Notes: I changed majors and attended other universities
to get a Bachelor of Education.
Major: Science Minor: Philosphy
I did teach in elementary schools in Chicago and later in
the San Francisco Unified School District.
I attended the University of Chicago after that, to study
famous painters, sculpturers and classical music.
As I walk out past the sands of Loyola beach,
out to the lighthouse on the point,
I thank god for this small retreat, this recouping,
and reforming of my reckless life.
An unusually warm May wind
caresses my face and tickles a foreign smile
upon my lips.
I look at the vast cloudless sky
and seemingly endless waters
and begin to realize my purpose again,
my reason for being, myself,
and my happiness so long forgotten.
Standing tough, no matter the outcome. Sister Jean's 98, good to be backed and a school like Loyola Chicago, well they got some talented players, and now they are going into the final four.
Fight the good fight, stand up for the little guy, all this and more.
This kind of salutary, we come we go, they came they've gone; like an awakening in sleepy town, like a moonshot, we made it to the moon, someone took a picture of Earth, just what it
looks like from space.
I rubbed up against the butt of dog high upon the heavens and flipped the Earth's polarity
so there was this rise and shine with nothing else to say, it's always the same, it's all gone mad
until you believe, what is it you believe
Thermodynamics: I wear this tight fitting spandex under my clothes, to help me run, like thermal underwear I would wear as a kid on the coldest of days.
Did you ever notice that when you wear thermal underwear underneath, that if you stand near anything, it reflects your own bodies warmth.
Peace!
I once knew a fellow from Pensacola
Who drank liters of fizzy Coca-Cola
He peed in the street
And on his bare feet
Now I think he is enrolled at Loyola.
written June 27, 2021
Andrea Pozzo used the quadratura technique
but innovatively gave it a tweak
Creating a 3d space upon the flat
what do you think of that*
*https://www.alamy.com/andrea-pozzo-ceiling-painting-the-church-of-st-ignatius-of-loyola-at-campus-martius-italian-chiesa-di-santignazio-di-loyola-in-campo-marzio-lati-image180215835.html
"Stardust Memories"
Theme of our college dance.
The dance card in the walnut hutch now rests.
My date's handwriting, still alive in it.
Pink, sparkling, decades old, the wristlet dance card is.
Filled with sorority sisters' names.
The band's name, so classy.
The Tam O'Shanter Country Club.
A night of tuxedoed,gorgeous young men.
And their beautifully gowned young women.
Dancing softly under tender lights.
The spring breezes, so fragrant.
You and I, kissing in innocence under silver moonlight.
Nights like this never do end, the music still sings in me,
Caressed by today's sweet winds,
And my heart's forever feelings!
* College Days~ Memories of Loyola University, Chicago"
August 17, 2020
8pm PST
A-nother
L-ife
M-ade
I-n
R-eal
A-ffection
L-iterally
O-ffers
Y-ou
O-ne
L-ovely
A-spect
Topic: Birthday of Almira G. Loyola (February 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic