Long Yale Poems
Long Yale Poems. Below are the most popular long Yale by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Yale poems by poem length and keyword.
OrpheusSlang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade =
brooke = gorgeous
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”
Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School is OVER, COVID is over. We’re in New York City...
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Categories:
yale, humor, mothers day, new york, sister, summer,
Form:
Free verse
gildedThis happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break.
Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of Art Deco sculpture. Lisa and I came out of a...
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Categories:
yale, art, dad, daughter, fashion, fun, humor, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Better Climate QuestionsIt has been said
There is no bad question
asked with cooperative integrity.
While those asked with competing disintegrity,
mendaciously,
are not really questions at all.
That said,
conceded as asked and answered,
Some questions remain
more ecologically and economically,
politically and personally,
publicly and intimately,
naturally...
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Categories:
yale, earth, games, gender, health, integrity, nature, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Hold the PhoneHold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...
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Categories:
yale, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form:
Free verse
DeepfakeI’m so siced about the Barbie movie. I just watched the latest trailer. I felt a fluttering in the stummy.
Peter’s birthday was May 1st. “What do you want for your birthday?” I’d asked.
“A flash for...
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Categories:
yale, birthday, boyfriend, confusion, humor, paris, romantic, write,
Form:
Free verse
AthensWe’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little...
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Categories:
yale, humor, mom, school, student, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Stories of Grace and PathologyI hope it would not be a parody of Michael Morrell’s political scientific position
to suggest all relationships are political
and all political relationships fall somewhere on a spectrum
between perfect co-empathic trust,
nutritionally and regeneratively favored by creolizing...
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Categories:
yale, blessing, gospel, health, history, political, religion, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
More Jazz PleaseMy roommates Leong, Sophie, (Charles) and I were coming from a Yale sporting event. The sky looked like a dirty Swiffer-mop and the wind seemed to be ignoring the posted 20mph speed limit. It was...
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Categories:
yale, food, friendship, fun, god, happy, music, school,
Form:
Free verse
ReceptionsLisa and I went to a reception, yesterday evening, for students who’d landed summer fellowships at a particular hospital in Boston. (Yeah us!) It wasn’t formal, so I wore a crimson cropped sweater, a beige...
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Categories:
yale, career, humor, leadership, school, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
RoadMy acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would ambivalently imply that I was too young to remember, however...
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Categories:
yale, age, perspective, , cute,
Form:
Bio
Chaz Or ChasteMidterms are over and I killed ‘em (Yes, even physics) - yeah me! I spent the last two weeks like prisoners do, marking off days until - freedom. Now the pressure’s off and I can...
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Categories:
yale, confusion, culture, friendship, humor, school, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
FellowshipsI’ve only been at my fellowship gig a week, but It’s official, I’m a candy-striper. Sort of, I wear a blue vest, not the old, red-striped dress, but it’s the same job. I shadow my...
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Categories:
yale, business, feelings, humor, life, school, trust, work,
Form:
Free verse
Fall BreakIn New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that lull her to sleep like lullabies. She has a disturbingly...
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Categories:
yale, food, friendship, fun, humor, new york, sister,
Form:
Free verse
Why Capitalism FailedI'm reading a publication of Yale Press,
a "centrist" polemic against the LeftBrain's libertarian excesses,
and against RightBrain's sinister shadow
of totalitarian uniformity
playing nihilistic lose/lose
on a global interpersonal
public sector stage three
of nationalistic climate annihilation,
Where RightBrain's win/win golden shadow
prefers...
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Categories:
yale, beauty, community, earth, health, integrity, nature, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
protestsIf you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties who spend hour after hour talking about anything and everything,...
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Categories:
yale, appreciation, celebration, education, freedom, identity, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
rooftopLisa and I had a party to hit-up. I can’t stay inside all the time, not on a Friday night anyway and a rooftop is the perfect place to mull over big questions and get...
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Categories:
yale, night, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
GradesIn numerology twelve has special meanings - they’re twelve days of Christmas, twelve months in a year, and Taylor Swift’s had twelve number-one albums. All we care about at Yale, are the twelve days until...
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Categories:
yale, best friend, education, holiday, humor, school, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
25It’s Monday afternoon, the first day after Fall Break. Several of my suitemates are here, relaxing a bit before we hit the dining hall and then scatter, like debris from a bomb. There are a...
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Categories:
yale, friendship, humor, perspective, school,
Form:
Free verse
Stirring Things UpWhen I was little, my stepfather and I would be outside, coloring the driveway with chalk or throwing a frisbee and he’d stop and say, “I’m gonna go stir your mama up.”
He’d go in the...
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Categories:
yale, boyfriend, childhood, humor, parents, school, teen,
Form:
Free verse
adsThe school year’s ending. ‘Spring Fling’ is tonight (Saturday) the biggest event (concert) of the year, and next week - final exams. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be a senior in about 2...
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Categories:
yale, future, humor, places, school, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Goodbye Maya AngelouClinton's Inauguration 1993
You were so beautiful, Maya
Standing in front of the
President and the First Lady
I didn’t really understand
Your Pulse Of Morning
Presidential inauguration poem
I kind of got lost in the dinosaur theme
Poems about Mastodons usually
Don’t...
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Categories:
yale, angel, courage, emotions, poetry, presidents day, simile,
Form:
Rhyme
murder-der-derIt’s Harvard VS Yale this weekend, the vibes are just starting now. Everyone - and I mean everyone - has been asking about my game tickets, because guest tickets are $25 a pop. I’m more...
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Categories:
yale, fashion, football, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
The Most Unlikely CoupleWe were sitting in my car, companions to a lovely Hawaiian night where the moon shined bright, and the white caps glistened in the sea. Everything was in place. The white sand beaches and palm...
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Categories:
yale, adventure, mystery, true love,
Form:
Narrative
The Old Prospector, the Crazy Old FoolThe Old Prospector, The Crazy Old Fool
Folks said that nasty fool is a damn old bat
times the bastard knows not where he is at
Rumor is he lives in shame for murdering a man
eats lizards and...
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Categories:
yale, crazy, discrimination, funny, truth, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Physique of UniqueSlicing & dicing the
fabric of time.
Contorting & distorting
functionality to reality.
My unique physique poetic
swagger broadcasting
Elegance in resilience
Relevant to intelligence.
Rewinding the two hands of time
with a wicked new rhyme
elements from the...
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Categories:
yale, character, identity, life, passion, poets, senses, writing,
Form:
Free verse