Quad Squad
from their quadrants
quadruped
quarterfinalists
quarrelling
in quadraphonic
quadruplicity
are disqualified
for actually
being a
wanted
tetrad
only posing
as a quartet
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Posted on January 30, 2020
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Categories:
quad, silly, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Vacuum
Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us quickly repent
of whatever truths we’d once determined to learn:
for whatever is left, we are unable to discern.
There’s nothing left of
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Categories:
quad, education, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Cut a Quad
There was a large stout man named Joe Brewer
Who once was a great tobacco chewer
Cut a quad
Chew the wad
Now with no teeth he gums the leaves fewer
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Categories:
quad, humor,
Form: Limerick
Campus Quad
Sipp'n on drinks
Walk'n outside
There she is
Beautiful as ever
Couldn't walk past
without saying hi
"You go here"
Yeah, You
"Yeah" ....
She caught my eye
And soon after my heart
Your pretty
"Nah you are"
Wrap'n arms around body ....
Same place we met
I whispered in her ear
"Will you be my girlfriend"
Let me think about
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Categories:
quad, love
Form: Free verse
Quad
I looked out the window
the light, streaming down
amongst the trees
reflecting on me
To walk amongst the trees,
a simple pleasure
Fresh scent of pine
mind , at ease
I heard birds,
shadows flying from tree to tree
My hand to touch
This roughness of bark
Such thoughts , absurd
How the deepening
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Categories:
quad, health, life, loss, nature,
Form: Ballad