Rose Class Poems

Coleen Moore 1898-1988.
An Angel Born In Michigan 
Her personality and good looks
Took her to fortune and fame
On stage and the silent silver screen
A longed for...

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Fairest Diana: an Epitaph for Princess Diana
by Michael R. Burch

Fairest Diana, princess of dreams,
born to be loved and yet distant and lone,
why did you linger?so...

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We are going to talk about Laughter In the Lord.
Someone said: “It takes more muscles to frown than take to laugh.” It also says that...

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Ellipse, evolute, vertex and curve,
Humdrum circle or ricochet swerve
Astroids or cusps, arcs or sectors;
What have those got to do with vectors?
Curvature, cone, Cartesian plane…
Oval, deltoid…...

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That dormant feeling of insecurity arose,
when travel journal got thrust adjacent
     to my tattered (holey tattooed) clothes
while I knew with crossed...

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I was in an essay contest
It started in January
When we wrote our rough drafts.
Then the teacher paired us
Up for peer editing.
I was paired with
A boy...

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There was always plenty of drugs for people to cope
But a Missionary and a Priest were their best hope.

Each day came with fears to face,...

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With a heart from which noble sentiments sprang
like sparks from an anvil.
With a smile flashed over her face, 
like sunshine over a flower.
With a ...

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I carry an effeminate soul, yearning for ladylike answers in the night.
   I carry the reason to be whole, learning delight comes within...

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One day I noticed a child
And I said, "What are you up to?"
The child responded casually,
"I'm on my way to school".

And what are you going...

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She's a pack-up and lander,
Like the geese and the gander,
She's a Roma,
On her own-a,
In a two wheeled house,
Involved with no weak willed spouse,
O honey! I've...

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David Cameron and The Middle Class Lass

She was ‘ordinary’, ‘middle class’ a ‘one of us’ kind of lass
Or at least that’s how she was presented...

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Look at me, I’m a 25 year trendy maker!
I feature a brand new me, at present!
Look at me, and Read through my transition,
I wear George...

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Why this boat?
Could it be the boat of destitution?
Conveying Epidemics, Hunger, Rags,
Malnutrition and Illiteracy.

Descend from me!
Banish from my world!
You cursed word!
You that called education a"Privilege"!
Patrimony...

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