Best Villanova Poems

What I knew before birth
  I will know after death

This slight pause called life
  —where the soul takes a breath

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2018)...

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Empowering the indolent,
  the fox is now inside

The vermin on the loose,
 the truth now plagued by lies

The takers stalk the givers,
 those on...

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I came to your hospice,
  I came here to die

I came for my family
  a final goodbye

I broke that one promise,
  I...

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God is a poet,
 his blessings in rhyme

Salvation unmetered,
  inspiration divine

His voice calls us inward,
  temptation now gone

Where the wings of an Angel,
...

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There’s comfort in knowing,
things come and they go

As the wind brings a newness,
whether lilac or snow

There’s joy in all laughter,
given freely and new

And music in...

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If Art …
 is our connection to the senses

Then Poetry … 
  is our connection to the soul

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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In the middle—the center,
  a bullseye did hide

Its heart bleeding red,
  to target the lies

It cried out for justice,
  it cried out...

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Playing defense with terrorism,
  —another name for suicide

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)...

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What the heart holds captive,
—the mind will never free

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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A memory climbed out of the dark,
  as I listened to the words of a new love song

Taking me back to where feelings were...

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Trapped by a promise
 exitway
closed

Memories held captive
hope
long deposed

Dreams
shattered mirrors
shards that implode

Sentenced to wander
despondent
I go


(Villanova University: August, 2022)...

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When words rape the feeling,
  any pregnancy is wrong

Delivery most premature,
  verdict quick—sentence long

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)...

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Atheists work on the breaker box,
  as Creationists source the power

Rewiring a changing system that’s flawed
  —their lights flicker in an ivory tower

(Villanova...

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Before dying alone,
our choices define us

To love and be loved
—to care and believe

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)...

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I saw the end 
  in the beginning
  at the beginning 
  of the end

I wrote the final chapter
  before the...

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