The 4 D's In Defense
...A critical ally that rears and screams,
Only to extend this metaphysical play.
Where time becomes both friend and foe,
And when a shortfall leads to delay.
Realistically, the battlegrou...
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Categories:
provost, conflict, political,
Form: Quatrain
If He Was Provost of a Prison
...If he was the provost of a prison
He would open all of the cells
Let the prisoners decide among themselves
Who would live and who would die
They would dance into the yard
Laughing and carousing
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Categories:
provost, life,
Form: Free verse
An Angel In Hell
...Lucifer;
Ho!,peace here
How by far
Will thou tarry with scare?
There in hell,
Lies temprount.
From beyond he fell,
To this lake-y mount.
By what law did you fell?
By law or by spell?
Thou...
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Categories:
provost, angel,
Form: Narrative
Poor Pandora
...We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.
But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused poet...
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Categories:
provost, allegory, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Roast of Rhyme - Rhyme Schema
...I am trying to relate to the strategy of rhyme,
Using words to titillate from the droll to the sublime.
Do I write "a rime...
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Categories:
provost, poems, poetry, word play,
Form: Rhyme
The Trill of the Lithium-Laced Lyrist
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Law, English, business, and so on—
alas, are tiresome!
All the professors here go on
with a prime axiom.
A moldy, college campus where
knowledge and books abound,
freshmen ...
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Categories:
provost, humor, rap, satire, student,
Form: Bio