Long Alumnus Poems

Nay, despite failing to make the grade,
     this bluesy well red, duff mute 
     average white band hit,
     hard knock school alumnus
jack of...

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A feint attempt to stab myself...
quickly found the missus ready to faint

Like a madman possessed
by mailer daemon lemme acquaint
ye with the following verse, I will bepaint
momentary horror, where yours truly
entered momentary third eye blind rage

loosing...

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A famous alumnus is visiting the university. I got an invitation several days ago to a small, socially distanced, masked, focus group. It was to be early on a Saturday morning - so, why not?...

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Godwin Adizue Ibeh 
(1937-2017)


Mr. Godwin Adizue Ibeh
Aged 79 years
Was and is 
My beloved, doting father
“Is” because he remains
Spiritually present 
Present 
In my memory
Present 
In pictures and mementos 
Present 
In my dreams, smiles and tears 
Present 
In my prayers and imagination
His spirit 
Hovers in the air
Above...

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Mind differs from the body.
creed of what we embody.
Start with phonetic rhymes
We learn to grasp algorithms.

How do they stay most-given?
A team, that is one-driven.
Does one's desire astonish?
Tell your brain to admonish.

A sneer on the mental...

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The rented hall ways so surreal.
Cheerful alumnus ranting sex appeal.
Forgive my dropping a time bomb.
Taking Mother to the prom.
Our student body didn't shake.
All others escorted steady dates.
A proclivity prom, above all others.
Our band encrypted, "The...

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Reputation Mind Tower



Alumni alumnus refuses to let the truth to surface on a mirrored pond of 
questioning students making efforts of understand just why they cannot advance 
it is the tower. There is reputation of...

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Thank you God
That I’m always a student
I abhor
The slaughters of the babies
Toddlers were killed dead
Young boys and girls were shot dead
Pregnant women were stabbed dead
That’s terror
Young men were executed
Young women were raped and killed
That’s horror
Women...

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 ( "Write the truest sentence you know."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald ) 


Variant plurals suffering suffixation's whims;
fly-tomatoes and the valley boo-mouse,
when the sheep alumnus in a mother-in-law seed,
animosity-cat tiptoes in the church alchemy,
genetic...

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Like a restless dog haunted by a place
where it vaguely recalls having buried
        long ago something personally precious,
        he keeps coming...

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mass austerity
within singularity
there's no clarity

flickers in darkness
motion overcomes starkness
throws off death's harness

gravity freeing
nothingness begets being
one lost in fleeing

the movement divides
that which expansion decides
existence abides

spawns evolution
universal solution
until conclusion

all lost in own space
seeking to fill everyplace
in outward...

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He smilingly, smugly says to himself:

     "Ah, if only these kids knew

        I was best debater here,

       ...

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Hey! You free spirits!
You are so blessed!
Unlike me!

It's too tough
to stifle our emotions
inside a closed space.

Because it whirls round us
again and again
like the leaves swirl

But you the free spirits
swerve everywhere
as there's no limit

Oh, the free...

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