Long Alumni Poems
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America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...
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Categories:
alumni, america,
Form:
Prose
Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
Trumpeting and mythologizing deranged deplorable basket case as demigod
Any idea regarding who unnamed individual earned such lofty title? I offer a clue, that averred person unknown to many others within the webbed, wide world, and...
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Categories:
alumni, 11th grade, 12th grade, 3rd grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
History of Havard Yard
Okay. So, according to her license plate, Sarah had something to do with the name “Welbeck Street” and had once asked if the Journal would consider using “Harvard Yard” in her name. Also according to...
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Categories:
alumni, america, people, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Rangitoto College Reunion
I
Hearken back to the old rule nazis how
...
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Categories:
alumni, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Thanksgiving Blessings
Abounding in gratitude
my heart bursts out delightful praises
worshipfully testifying ---
“God has blessed me this 2021.”
January’s thanksgiving glow
greeted me with peace and hope
to surmount quarantine hurdles, propping my zest---
declaring “Thus saith the...
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Categories:
alumni, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, thanksgiving,
Form:
Free verse
Among An Unnamed Female Person Known Within Mine Black Barbed Ken
Among an unnamed female person known within mine black barbed ken
Analogous to black box
holding untold secrets,
(after deadly plane crash
no survivors except
a journeyman foreigner),
I share the following self
introspection with ye dear readers,
which purported hidden truths
might...
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Categories:
alumni, absence, angel, appreciation, beautiful, crush, fate, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
A Theatre of the Absurd
Theatre of the Absurd
Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd,
there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown,
an ego-maniac who makes his own staff clap for him
and who fast is bringing a nation down.
With...
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Categories:
alumni, horror,
Form:
Quatrain
When In a Jam I Try To Preserve Meditative Trance
When in a jam, I try to preserve meditative trance
Synonymous with light hypnotic mode
inhaling and exhaling diffusing anger
lest mine noggin would explode
rhythmic breaths flowed
sustained me red nose (think Rudolph) glowed.
Holistic approach to derive peace of...
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Categories:
alumni, addiction, beautiful, blessing, daughter, father daughter, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Overzealousness and Assiduousness
Overzealousness and assiduousness...
now propels yours truly towards restitution
courtesy sophisticated mountebank,
whose criminal mind
filched mine banknotes
rationed for when I exhibit decrepitude.
Cutthroat robber baron
re: newly minted vandal
an alumni matriculated
from school for scandal
a sheep in wolf's clothing
said culprit I...
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Categories:
alumni, angel, anger, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hen House
Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant
dwells amongst an elder net
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque
of old folks, only a portion of population I met
which achey, flaky, kooky motley crue
disgruntlement fed as peevish...
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Categories:
alumni, care, class, environment, farewell, grave, nostalgia, retirement,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Vagaries of An Unknown Methacton High School
Nineteen Seventy-Seven Alumni
Some conspiratorial and malevolent force
must be fast at work
cranking chronology dial
an extraterrestrial force
donning, housing, loosing,
...
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Categories:
alumni, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, angst,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
No Happy Endings Here, Part Ii
...She did not see him at the reunion,
the big night came and he was a no-show,
Janet felt sad, but figured he might need time,
so back to their hometown the two did go.
But Chet went on...
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Categories:
alumni, anger, child, confusion, heartbreak, loss, relationship, sad,
Form:
Narrative
Petsmart Stratagem Employed To Generate Business
Upon Googling Petco
regarding purchasing gift card
for eldest daughter
(she tends two beautiful female felines)
Petsmart website appeared right and center
innocuously distracting purported intent.
The nearest latter named store
approximately a dozen plus miles away
whereas former specialty shop
in closer proximity...
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Categories:
alumni, animal, appreciation, cat, creation, daughter, family, girl,
Form:
Free verse
Panic At the Station
Sophomore year’s clocked-up my free time. Last summer I made some core promises (to my mom) to go harder on the pre-med track. Perfect grades are ok, I’m told, but they’re underdog, alone. So, this...
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Categories:
alumni, boyfriend, school, student, teen, travel, work,
Form:
Free verse
Respect the Game
To know just where your're going
You must know where you've been
You must respect the history
The things others have seen
It's true in all things relative
Be it music, sports or life
If you don't know where you came...
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Categories:
alumni, baseball, football, games, history, soccer, softball, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Perserverance Breeds Success
PERSERVERANCE BREEDS SUCCESS
Jss One was an insult, I cried
Like time should hit full stop,
My breakfast was sweet without
Salt,
My parents tasted like this evil
Citrus,
I continued to hide like Air Force
Was only for my seniors.
Jss Two arrived...
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Categories:
alumni, artsweet, sweet,
Form:
Ballade
The Coach
THE COACH
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Went to an alumni meeting last week
Looking for solace, the outlook was bleak
We lost a game we should have won
A total disaster to all not just some
Cries of anguish torrents...
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Categories:
alumni, allegory, angst, culture, emotions, football, introspection, sick,
Form:
Rhyme
Fierce Fictional Fraternal Fallout
That dormant feeling of insecurity arose,
when travel journal got thrust adjacent
to my tattered (holey tattooed) clothes
while I knew with crossed eyes
aroused anger from peaceful doze
my...
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Categories:
alumni, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Presidential Inauguration 2017 - Poetic Screed - Part3
pioneer esprit de corps front tier brisk.
* * * * * * ...
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Categories:
alumni, betrayal, dark, heartbroken, house, january, me, people,
Form:
I do not know?
Perpetual Queasy Student Days Recess 2
mysterious as Lemuel
unlike hundreds of
other rowdy seniors
constituting the nineteen
seventy seven graduating class
...
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Categories:
alumni, boy, discrimination, education, mental illness, prejudice, remember,
Form:
Bio
Sister Hilda Marie of Ind
She was the sparkle at the heart of it
The love we all shared
I don’t remember a day that passed by,
without her friendly smile or wink of her eye.
We lost Hildie in the spring of...
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Categories:
alumni, celebration, character, death of a friend, education,
Form:
Free verse
The Class of 1973 and 1974-
3 long years ago;
I first entered these, marble walls;
Now with glory and honor pride;
Invested in me we go down in history;
Alum, alum, alumni;
Who am I, whose am I to decide;
I now cry cause the future...
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Categories:
alumni, analogy, appreciation, encouraging, words,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Benediction Towards Anonymous Mindful Readers
Reverence affects yours
truly with unmeasurable
infinite jubilant zeal,
sans unbeknownst world wide
(web stirred) fans enamored
with me poetry...
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Categories:
alumni, 11th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, appreciation,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
The Mhs Class of '77 Chapter Two
sans to stand proud and tall
(all five and a half feet, but blunted maximum height
topped off just shy of seventy inches -
in reference...
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Categories:
alumni, age, celebration, class, education, eulogy, farewell, growing
Form:
Prose Poetry
Priceless Prospective Professionals of Tomorrow Or the Next Day
when onset
of periodontal disease didst rear
innocuously unbeknownst then,
that...nada one tooth experts could spare
though grievously sad to bid teeth adieu
now, tis gratitude these...
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Categories:
alumni, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, angel,
Form:
Light Verse