QUADRANGLE WALL
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Each day in the lunch break he saw her,
Across the quadrangle, sat on the wall.
Her lunch box beside her, staring into space,
And no one in that crowded space,
Seemed to talk to her at all
W...
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Categories:
quadrangle, love,
Form: Rhyme
Divine
...Tales of white and green
With black tinge in between
Edifices in quadrangle
Surrounding a green garden
And her name was Divine,
She was my cradle for many years
She was gorgeous, fair and f...
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Categories:
quadrangle, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Quiescent
...A quiescent quiver
haunted the quagmire,
a quandary of purpose
overshadowed the quest.
The quadrangle protected
its secrets in silence.
9/29/2021
“Q” Contest, NEW ONLY Poetry Contest...
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Categories:
quadrangle, mystery, scary,
Form: Free verse
The Day When Harry Told the Truth
...Now Uncle Harry, me old Uncle, who’d been a scallywag I’d say,
told outlandish stories to us kids and we became his perfect prey.
For he’d see our eyes wide open as we took in every word,
believin...
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Categories:
quadrangle, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Quadrangle Well
...They made a decorative well
in the campus
where books and laptops
were set aside
by the skinny staked
newly planted ancient oaks.
Students could sit there
to be good company
if they could fin...
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Categories:
quadrangle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Garden Tale
...gardens are where we are:
from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
from mountain to coast, town to country
from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
f...
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Categories:
quadrangle, garden, places, space,
Form: Free verse
Heated Back
...I woke up suddenly with a burning sensation in my back
It felt as though my whole body was on fire and literally I was sweating all over. I took off the covers to appease my immediate desire but my ...
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Categories:
quadrangle, america, change, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Limerick Crochetes Portrait of a Dead Brit Nazi Lord of the Lollypoppians
...Limerick crochetés: Portrait of a Dead Brit Nazi, Lord of the Lollypoppians
Part One
Once an uppity man from Poland
Wed a stumpy wench from High Golan
Result: mangy mongre...
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Categories:
quadrangle, satire,
Form: Limerick
First Crush: You Crushed My Feelings Forever
...For the boy who had gone through his first crush.. wrote by Mrs.Madhavi
First Crush: Crushed My feelings forever!!
Her epitome of innocence and virtue made me sick.
Friend around me s...
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Categories:
quadrangle, adventure, angel, anger, anniversary,
Form: Personification
Infatuation
...Et Semper Amabo te! (I will always love you)
Alas! The world was at its newest creation
On the gloam of 24 December celebration
My fine lady rode her bicycle
As I gazed at you in the pinnacle
The...
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Categories:
quadrangle, lost love, heart, heart,
Form: Free verse
My Roomie
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Boyd and I graduated from high school
Then college roommates; we thought that was cool
Texas A and M became our new home
Bunk beds in a dorm room without any phone
It’s a military...
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Categories:
quadrangle, friendship, words, song, song,
Form: Quatrain