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 the dole now scream

“We want what you have worked for,
 —the fruit without the tree”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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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 most wanted to keep

Alone on my mountain,
  no mourners to weep

The doctors and nurses,
  they prod and they...

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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,
  carry words into song

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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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 the words,
chosen only by you

There’s a time to be born,
and a time then to die

An ending beginning,
a final stop on...

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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 in pain

Until an arrow struck deeply,
  truth firmly ingrained

Its point forced its power,
 its shaft driving home

A message of...

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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 strong,
  beyond the flashbacks of a long frozen dream

Remembering again, a last ember still burns,
  and its light...

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

I wrote the final chapter
  before the preface
  with nothing left 
  to send

I walked 1000 miles
  before sitting down
  then walked 1000...

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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 Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Is blood,
  the price of art

Is death,
  the price of truth

A rose,
  its thorn uncovered

And love,
 —the price of youth

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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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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Night erupts…
The maddening glow
Of a closing minute
Of a final hour
Shines pale
Against the frozen concrete
As the drumbeat starts
And the chanting starts
My last broken link
Forever lost
Forever lost
Salvation,
The calling card 
Of a new
Abyss
My breath turning
Inward
Where the heat rises
And the voices expand
With the choking of Angels
And the plucking of...

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