Best Scholastically Poems

THE PERSPECTIVE OF ALABASTER SCROOGE

In modern English people time, when the world was full of eminent joy, there lived a man of prestige who was totally the opposite of anyone who strives to form the perfect environment that established his person in which he was...

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Drifting through the millennium
to a world
of surprises and delight

You think about
what the future beholds
beyond the remedial

circumstances driven by
perseverance, thoughts
scholastically superimposed

upon realities drudgery
when you understand
it's all whimsy

upheld by rules, laws
etched into meanderings
circulating the realm

beyond your wildest imagination
you drift through
turmoils of preponderance

into a life
of no regrets
or misunderstandings

just...

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As the sun began to set, cursed words smeared the screen
A familiar face vanished everywhere I once loathed to see it
It was a heady rush I never dreamed of experiencing
The taste of iron on my tongue sent my head spinning

Thus began the longest night
From mid-November...

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April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul   
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft united with spirit
of mine late mother Harriet,
whose passing well nigh eighteen
orbitz of the earth around...

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A girl in the chamber

They know Kiswahili
Speaking it 
To their localities
A girl in the chamber!

Is thy family
Like that of an egg
Realizing no space
Entrance of oxygen Is?
A girl in the chamber!

Days of days
Knocked the ages
As the clan of flies
A girl in the chamber!

The fool age noted
To...

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Forever Thirteen
Her statuesque beauty beguiled so many
While her bright friendly smile attracted plenty
Her long flowing tresses of light auburn hair
They flattered her soft peachy skin, ever so fair

Despite her grown looks and her wisdom mature
Masked very well by her lust for adventure
Twas her youthful remarks...

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During the second century, there were many Christians who were tortured and put to death for being Christian. There was one named Sanctus* who, when tortured, simply answered, "I am a Christian."  By my personal choice, I became a Christian at the age of...

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Wisdom, like the endosperm of a coconut, evolved,
Jordan developed in his self-consciousness day by day;
Though vices around virtues, like the galaxy, revolved,
He, like the Magi, keenly discerned and chose the right way.

Boyishness, as the rind of an orange or plum got peeled,
Fruitfulness in him, like...

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Whilst at school, in the years gone by, when as a child,

Impish I was, and sprightly too, but not so sure of my mind;

Followed the old teacher’s dictum, “memorise by rote,

To succeed in life”, she said, so I got into the hard grind;


Truly, the best...

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April 9th, 2021 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Elysian fields embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad more'n six months ago,
nevertheless melancholy
still plucks mine heart strings.

Mine psyche still situated awry
placid countenance of yours truly doth belie
residual sadness easily prompted
can easily trigger...

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Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad more'n eighteen plus months ago,
nevertheless melancholy
still plucks mine heart strings.

Mine psyche still situated awry
placid countenance of yours truly doth belie
residual sadness easily prompted
can easily trigger me to cry
linkedin when grim...

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April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa

The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of entities constituting spiritus mundi.

Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing...

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My betters
are smarter than me
My betters
be more superior scholastically
My betters
love to look down from on high wealthy above
My betters
don’t like to show a poor brother like me much love
My betters
one day gon be the ones on lower ground
My betters
prideful lips gon be making a begging...

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April 9th, 2025 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Elysian fields long since embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad shy of 
fifty four plus months ago,
nevertheless melancholia
still plucks mine heart strings.

Mine psyche still situated awry
placid countenance of yours truly doth belie
residual...

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Twas december twenty second 1996...
(when all thru house in 1148 Penn Valley
thee eldest scheming to sally
forth unlike her papa hood dilly dally
nothing to chauffeur himself 'cept tally
sheet scored with failure.)

Twenty three years ago
most significant event
within mein kampf,
father time thankfully lent
biologically whipped miracle

stork did present
parturition ex...

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