Short Academia Poems

Truth minus freedom
—equals Academia

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)...

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The framework of the Framers is framed
high in the halls of Academia
now it is obscured by flags and colors...

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Like a thief in the night 
academia
wears enlightenment
as a mask
hiding its true agenda
— a stranglehold on the truth

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)
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I would be such a bore
that academia would write
a thousand plus a score
of run-on sentences trite
'bout all the things that might
have caused my co-dependency
on lies been told 'tween me and thee....

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William Adolphe Bouguereau
a pillar of the French Academia you know
much like Bottecelli before
Birth of Venus *he did so adore

*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_(Bouguereau)...

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Beyond academia
  its cause and effect

Lies a power inherent
  above judgment and theft

Atop its ivory tower
  and smothering vine

Consensus is trembling
 —with truth on the line

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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Beyond academia…
  its cause and effect

Lies a power inherent
  above judgment and theft

Atop its ivory tower
  and smothering vine

Consensus is trembling
  —with truth on the line

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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If Academia by the Military, be gifted Internet technology
Then Military replaced with what.  The www.
If Internet was no more use and turned from lamb to mutton
What technology,  do they hold now, those that will press the button....

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The tragedy within the new
  school of ‘thought’ ….

To know ‘about’ everything
  —while knowing naught

Where universities foster
  professorial demise

Poisoning the young
  —with their fantasy and lies

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)...

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Like a boy in the wild
raised by wolves
my poetry is sired
Tracking the scent
of each hunted word
traps set for me most dire
Uncaught or caged
by academia
my trail still honor bound
To wander freely
beyond the wind
— alone to stand my ground

(Ronald McDonald House: February, 2024)
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Poison Ivy

Academia …
cesspool
of deception 
harbinger
— of lies

(Dreamsleep: May, 2024) 


Occam’s Edge

Plurality
without necessity
— pandering time

(Dreamsleep: May, 2024) 


The Right Fork

Newness …
birth mother 
to anticipation

(From ‘Calling Me Home:’ May, 2024)
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Just 30 little days in which to turn around
A whole new season, new school year
The cooled breeze scented with academia,
apples and the most tenacious of roses
Spiders invading bathtubs, lazy bees
Stubbled fields, the grass now yellow
where emerald blades once flourished


6 Sept 2011...

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Many women deserve a crown, anD
Often, they don't need    academiA
Thanks to many hats; we'd      saY
Her hands calms rainbow waves
East, West, North and South, she's mother earth
Resuscitating troubled hearts
Saving those motherless from emptiness. 

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For Tammy Reams poetry contest, April 13th deadline
(On Mother's Day)...

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the madhouses of paris filled with retired teachers
got their point across
song of waterloo
this napoleanic labyrinth stearing
children to the brink 
madame martina martini
academia nuts cracked open wide

I see a few on the cliffs of burndom
harping their humdrum at the gods of charred sea eternity
and wonder about the love they made...

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as he reads the
morning journals
tasting fresh coffee
while, listening
to Pavane
there i stood
this i
truly know,
that my
daddy loves
me so,
because he
sent me
all the way
to the
university
where i earned
all of my degrees
thus, a Rhodes Scholar
in academia
in following
all of thy dreams
all of thy passions
and i
love you
more, daddy...

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Culture

Education is good, learning is great
One day everyone will have 
A University degree but the academia 
Will not be so happy 
Street cleaners with letters after their name
Cooks with literary degrees, 
And the status University gives will mean 
Little, everyone is intellectually equal 
Something must be done to stop this rot,
Perhaps wood carving will do,
And leave the education to the masses....

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Professors found a haven in academia
    a safe port in the storm of big business' toxemia  
  As meaningful as writing articles for encyclopedias
    as daring as interning for social media... 
 
  So now Professor's young charges want 'safe spaces'
    far away from the slug-it-out world of rat races
  Let me prove my point, get down to actual cases
    to ensure I've covered my derriere and other places...

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Wealth

Thou are of many a kind
And thou are possessed in many a way
Yet some find it hard to accord
With the view of thy diversity

Some are money wealthy
They can afford the world
Some are socially wealthy
They are the world diplomats

Many are scientific Dons
Yes, they make the world easier
Some are the artistic gurus
They beautify the world

 Shall I forget the academia?
The world’s greatest treasury...

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The spires watch nightmares planned below, for citizenry
Who should have no foe.' From within its boundry's
They're to be fools on show, the first of April, auspisces
Known.' The donkeys are leading all reason has flown.'
Six the number..' of zones in plan? to destroy cohesion
Do we give a damn.? In academia many need real learning'
We experience much deluge, and yet there's lots of chat; that 
The planet; is burning.?
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who ever said sunday isn't a work day
didn't have a park nearby for sundays soap-boxers
academia, politics, sociology, philosophy, religion, you name it
they brought lecturns, stepladders, boxes and chairs to stand on
while passers-by slowed to the gather-round for lecture and debate
it was wonderful...take a book...watch the different ball games...now
it's a desk piled with books and cd's...and a keyboard to say as i please...

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The ethics of duplicity,
  the killing on trial

One law for the criminal,
  one law for the child

The electric chair savage,
  womb murder refined

Academia, the father and mother
  of crime

To lie when convenient,
  truth’s babies to cry

An Einstein, a Lister, a Shakespeare,
  denied

Through dark inhumanity,
  their spirits to roam

Living deep in our consciousness
  —our souls theirs to own

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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The Muse had been gone for years 
I sat alone
she was replaces by Depression 
the Big D
I couldn't write anything of value 
or worth 
Academia replaced creativity 
muck to honey 
now the muse is back 
I can smell colors 
feel thoughts 
my natural LSD
Depression is out to lunch 
the Muse has opened the gates 
the water of imagination 
soaks the stone cold 
once dried dead dam 
Christ came back after 3 days
I've been resurrected 3 years later....

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   The renowned Columbia professor, Edward Sa’id
   influenced many thousands in thought and in deed

   Pre-1970, Edward told us he was Lebanese Christian, interestingly
   Post-1970, he was suddenly a Palestinian Arab refugee  



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   From my Dartmouth days, 1968 - 72, I remember how prominent
   and revered a figure Prof. Sa'id was in both academia and on the
   international political scene... Infuriating!

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