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Dartmouth Poems - Poems about Dartmouth

Left To Wander
...Left To Wander Confusion’s underbelly frustration’s embryo Orphaned seeds of black and white spread where nothing grows Choices wander celibate new pregnancy unfound Up or down left to right......

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Categories: dartmouth, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rewriting History
... The renowned Columbia professor, Edward Sa’id influenced many thousands in thought and in deed Pre-1970, Edward told us he was Lebanese Christian, interestingly Post-1970, he ......

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Categories: dartmouth, history, truth,
Form: Clerihew



The British Seashore
...On the cliff at the Worm’s Head High above the horns of the bay I see the surfers ride great waves With horses’ manes That ever fail, but never end In the strong Atlantic surge......

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Categories: dartmouth, beach, boat, environment, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Poet, Not a Recluse
...Red blood courses through my veins I've written my will, I pay my bills The currents of the day reach me too I am a poet, not a hermit At the sight of blood, I do not swoon Nor......

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Categories: dartmouth, children, future, parents, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Generation
...Saturday nights I remember were bad in September even worse in November On campus, roving mobs and gangs looking for girls to get drunk and then bang In dorms, wise fools dropping LS......

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Categories: dartmouth, abuse, drink, drug, remember,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Musings On Presidents In Residence
...It's so hard to select just one president -- even harder to put a new resident into a WH occupied by true decadents You think I mean Biden and Trump, ho-ho but I'm thinking Bush vs. Gore, a......

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Categories: dartmouth, america, leadership, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Worries of Darlene and Dharma
...My Aunt Darlene used up hours worrying. Turning down invitations, sitting in one spot. Afraid she would fall if she got up. People brought her meals, so she would eat. It is unclear whether or no......

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Categories: dartmouth, woman, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Metamorphosis - a Tale of Dartmouth College, 1968
..."Wah-hoo-wah!" said the 'bro,' "Let's head toward Fraternity Row." The Library bells toll ding-dong, Drunken brothers play beer-pong; All through the night play and drink, By ......

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Categories: dartmouth, career, change, drink, music,
Form: Rhyme
Asian Stereotype
...A pair of monolid eyes, and I’m academically enlightened. As if I’m some talented prodigy on his way to an Ivy League. Able to quickly solve problems without ever breaking a sweat. Absolutely - pe......

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Categories: dartmouth, discrimination, racism,
Form: Free verse
Eric Philbrook Kelly
...The American Scholar, professor of English at Dartmouth College. Books for children were your domain. From “The Trumpeter of Krakow” I learnt the second part of the legend. “The Golden Star ......

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Categories: dartmouth, tribute,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Wake Up and Smell the Tea
...(This poem is a lightly satirical look back in history at what was known as the Boston Tea Party) Something's brewing on the Dartmouth "Are those Mohawks that we see." No, but over-taxed c......

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Categories: dartmouth, history, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Avatar Queen
...Avatar Queen The mask or the screen What’s never to know What’s never to see Avatar Queen Your name to mislead One more cryptic posting That always deceives Avatar Queen Both petty and p......

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Categories: dartmouth, allusion, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
A Heart Now Taken
...I never wanted to own the words, but only rent them I never wanted to stay too long, just not leave early I never wanted to hear the answer, and keep the question I never wanted to give m......

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Categories: dartmouth, heart,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Greenish
...What does it mean, to be green, Referring to color, not politics or emotions. There's some tints or hues, between yellows and blues; With a lot of room, in between, for so many types of green. ......

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Categories: dartmouth, beauty, blue, color, green,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Robin and Marian
...North of Nottingham, there lies a wood Clothed with fern in Dartmouth green A barefoot Beauty, There she stood The likes of which, the worlds not seen A man observes, but undetected ......

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Categories: dartmouth, first love, love,
Form: Rhyme Royal

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