Repentance
...I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than ninety-nine righteous people who do not need repentance. Luke 15:7
We don't go to the docto...
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Categories:
loyola, prayer, repetition,
Form: Free verse
Lou Gehrig's ease
...We've heard of ALS
as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a cause to pray on our knees
But Lou Gehrig felt he was
"the luckiest man on earth"*
the Yankees, and his wife
the ...
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Categories:
loyola, appreciation, baseball, dedication, life,
Form: Rhyme
A National Treasure
...Sister Jean, a national treasure
burst on the scene five years ago
her Loyola Ramblers took the NCAAs by storm
and Sister Jean's quiet life was transformed
Now it's five years late...
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Categories:
loyola, age, basketball, celebrity, old,
Form: Rhyme
Clerihew Pozzo
...Andrea Pozzo used the quadratura technique
but innovatively gave it a tweak
Creating a 3d space upon the flat
what do you think of that*
*https://www.alamy.com/andrea-pozzo-ceiling-painting-the...
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Categories:
loyola, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
A Promising Fellow
...I once knew a fellow from Pensacola
Who drank liters of fizzy Coca-Cola
He peed in the street
And on his bare feet
Now I think he is enrolled at Loyola.
written June 27, 2021...
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Categories:
loyola, humorous,
Form: Limerick
On Receving My Nursing Cap
.......On Receiving my Nursing Cap......
On the shores of Lake Michigan, I bowed my head,
and received my nursing cap.
At Madonna de LaStrada Chapel, long before the
days there was a life overco...
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Categories:
loyola, graduate, memory,
Form: Rhyme
News Clips - Post Scripts
...D. Trump
we dumped
Ted Cruz
you lose
Cuomo
should go
Newsom's*
gruesome
Biden's
hidin'
Faucci's
grouchy
Meghan's
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Categories:
loyola, celebrity, fun, funny, word
Form: Footle
Stardust Memories
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"Stardust Memories"
Theme of our college dance.
The dance card in the walnut hutch now rests.
My date's handwriting, still alive in it.
Pink, spa...
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Categories:
loyola, cute love, dance, memory,
Form: Free verse
Compounds and Elements
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Compounds and Elements
It's painful to recall my so head full or rocks.
Inorganic chemistry was for me, plain, mysterious bedrock!
Luckily my chemistry partner must ...
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Categories:
loyola, class, happiness, humor,
Form: Couplet
One Year of Lines
...A-uthor's
L-ovely
M-essage
I-n
R-ighteous
A-crostic
L-ets
O-ne
Y-ear
O-f
L-ines
A-rrive
Topic: Birthday of Almira G. Loyola (February 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
loyola, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Real Affection
...A-nother
L-ife
M-ade
I-n
R-eal
A-ffection
L-iterally
O-ffers
Y-ou
O-ne
L-ovely
A-spect
Topic: Birthday of Almira G. Loyola (February 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
loyola, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Real Affection
...A-nother
L-ife
M-ade
I-n
R-eal
A-ffection
L-iterally
O-ffers
Y-ou
O-ne
L-ovely
A-spect
Topic: Birthday of Almira G. Loyola (February 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
loyola, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Once Light Appears
...J-ust
O-pen
A-nother
N-ew
L-ife
O-f
Y-ou
O-nce
L-ight
A-ppears
Topic: Birthday of Joan Loyola (September 05)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
loyola, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
I Think We Like Theodore Roosevelt's Spirit In Some Way
...Standing tough, no matter the outcome. Sister Jean's 98, good to be backed and a school like Loyola Chicago, well they got some talented players, and now they are going into the final four.
Fight ...
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Categories:
loyola, analogy, basketball, body,
Form: Carpe Diem
William Andleby
...In his youth,
he was as Loyola,
a soldier, then he was converted
and became a priest.
He succored and strengthen
the Catholic prisoners,
uplifting their faint bodies
with a new spirit of fa...
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Categories:
loyola, spiritual,
Form: Verse
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