Academy
...I went to school to try and find
new ways to write creatively.
Professors challenged my young mind
with homework drills approved by the
Academy.
Postmodernism ruled the day.
No metered rhymes...
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Categories:
profs, poetry, school,
Form: Rhyme
The Ballad of Villonia Beebe, a Life In Three Parts: Part 1
...An Overview
When Villonia Beebe was a baby of three
She got it in her head to trim the Christmas tree.
She lit all the pretty candles,
Tossed the matchstick away,
Sister, brother, dad, ...
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Categories:
profs, humor,
Form: Ballad
A Study By Excerpts
...She(she in her looking) looks in romantic light at jewels under gemstones in silver bone-plates and such and such and now she turns to midnight city in roaring by cars outside windows and the claims ...
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Categories:
profs, england,
Form: Free verse
Save the Flying
...Flying is booming
planes are crashing
everywhere, anywhere, anytime
What is safe about it?!
men and women locked in a faulty box
young and old, profs and novices
trapped with their dreams
slas...
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Categories:
profs, anger, poems,
Form: I do not know?
Never Satisfied
...I have seen men carved from stone
rising above the Black Hills,
I’ve seen ancient trees born back when
Ceaser still worked his will,
felt a thundering water pound down,
and from four Great Lakes...
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Categories:
profs, confusion, people, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Bantu Migrations: Ntu, Umb, Mumbi, Nagabumba
...when they reached Cameroun, from the heart of Africa's West
they had no priests; they had no religion; they knew IMMENSITY
they had, too, the fairest of metaphors (no macho patriarchy):
recalling ...
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Categories:
profs, africa, culture, history, humanity,
Form: Didactic
Grandpa, Il Furioso
...My granddaughter loves me,
that's all I need to know.
I will let the toffs and profs
who came my way now go.
For all their disparagement
why should I have the slightest care?
My ...
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Categories:
profs, anger, granddaughter,
Form: Couplet
Ix: Holy Communions
...Yesterday:
Ant-hillers danced within the sky
(Pig-watchers and men clashed!)
Today:
(The sky still cloudy for ant-hillers)
Every ant is summoned
To departmental communions
Where pot-bellied...
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Categories:
profs, educationsky,
Form: I do not know?