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Loyola Poems - Poems about Loyola

Premium MemberRepentance

...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

Premium MemberLou 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



Premium MemberA 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

Premium MemberClerihew 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

Premium MemberA 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



Premium MemberOn 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

Premium MemberNews 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

Premium MemberStardust 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

Premium MemberCompounds 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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