Happy Returns
...I turn off U.S. 30
at an exit for Ames
and see Jack Trice
Stadium expanded.
Memories stir
of football games
the jubilation and sorrow
found on the field
more than forty years ago
where campu...
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Categories:
dormitories, appreciation, remember,
Form: Free verse
A Morning In Miniature
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Carpet patterns
and the swirlings of grain
in wooden floors were maps
to me of exotic worlds,
portal holes for a child
to enter and explore
places edged on the
furthest reaches
of the f...
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Categories:
dormitories, light, morning,
Form: Free verse
Dormitory
...These are photographs of my village
Taken over a hundred years ago
The streets look just the same
As those I used to know
When Fifty or more years later
That village was my family home
And i w...
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Categories:
dormitories, change, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Social Evolution
...There’s still a Church and Chapel
A pub, but no longer a school
For there on the council
Childless incomers rule.
There are houses on allotments,
Pastures where cows would graze
Have asph...
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Categories:
dormitories, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Mrs Billingsfesh Prepares Herself
...Shame and years of tears have hardened like
asylum bread and now the children want
to know of your intricacies Mrs. Billingsfesh.
Along the hallways of this home for wayward
children, how fast ...
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Categories:
dormitories, fire, gothic, history, horror,
Form: Free verse
Gifts of God
...Dorothea, was that truly her name?
Does it matter after all these years
so long passed the heartache of a child's tears?
This tale remembered from a lifetime that unwinds
once forgotten and ...
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Categories:
dormitories, age, faith, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Ytb
...Ytb! Ytb! You understand we had a contract?
But what happened ytb?
You were such a savior to many,
A dream come true for many,
Why did you abandon us ytb?
We came to Turkey you were nowhere t...
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Categories:
dormitories, hilarious, international,
Form: Free verse
Marian
...Marian; Joe Canning (all rights reserved)
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'Marian'
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She was a small woman, a c...
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Categories:
dormitories, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Alzheimer's Domino Effect Chapter 2
...Live up to your highest potential
Live for the future
Now is your time to shine
Hoping hopelessly for you to be mine…
But…
I’m hesitant…unmovable air…
Leaves us in this despicable despair...
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Categories:
dormitories, words,
Form: Free verse
Lions and Lambs
...As it shattered, shutters burst
But the silence was shattered first
By the angels who learned to curse
in dormitories, thirsty on the second story...
Through tattered shutters stumbled morning,
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Categories:
dormitories, people
Form: Rhyme
Misconceptions
...I linger beyond
the rigid dormitories
where wise, winter diplomats
speculate over my weaknesses
and vernal rites
(as if I have no rights).
Still I can hear the arguments
staged as sol...
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Categories:
dormitories, confusion
Form: Free verse