Short Campus Poems

Trees in the campus
Song bird singing gleefullly
Dawn of the season...

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Crushed can.
Blank face.
On a Campus bus in traffic.
Hold on;
Just for a moment.



(? after title.)...

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The winds of disaster
blow solemn and cold,
sweeping away my heart

From out of the North,  
reclaiming my soul
—in torment to depart

(West Campus: November, 2020)...

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Annual reunions,
he keeps coming back
to this school campus

like a restless dog
haunted by a place
where it vaguely recalls

having buried long ago
something truly
precious!...

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You can burn a book
but not its truth
Flames no match
for time’s reproof

Planted deep
below the lime
Its seeds will flower
— where light to shine

(West Campus: May 6, 2024)
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Autumn leaves fallen 
all over the Tsinghua Campus... 
Yellow, Orange, Red and Brown... 
Each has a story to tell... 
Story of Resistance... 
How long did it stand 
against wild air......

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There once was a young fellow named Lizzie
The tough guys mockingly called him a sissy
So he carried a bat
And that ended that
No more teasing, he dated a sweet campus missy


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Mountains on the Backyard


This mordant assignment
Is my nemesis with physical insult-
My venerated assailant
Famed for making life difficult!

(Great Zimbabwe University, Mashava Campus.)


JM

21st Feb’ 2014...

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The blonde playing hopscotch
had a tattoo

In a collision of eras,
her ponytail flew

As innocence skipped,
the ink started to run

A bastardized image
—of time overrun

(Villanova University Campus: October, 2019)...

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History’s unpopular these days,
No one cares where Blues shot Greys,
Or where the tons of cannonballs were kept.
Union marker stands aloof, alone,
Monument of bronze and chisled stone,
And students giggle where the Northern troops once swept....

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Another school shooting
And this is the worst
Can somebody tell me
The cause of this curse

They say the shooter
A man with two guns
Came on the campus
To shoot anyone

What kind of demon
Would do something like this
Leave a whole town
In such emotional distress...

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So hot  this drought
actress actless
active status

campus fratus
student madness
Kansas baptists
tactile stratus
plastic, mattress 
so hot, need drink
lactose liquid
fractus, cactus
gratis,  tractive
fractus, cactus
fastest  lactic
DRINKen cactus...

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I pause to my thoughts
Covered with a mist of sceptics 
Sweating in fear
Like caught in a crocodiles' mouth
Left on a cross road"with out a 
campus"
Nowhere to go 
Only the sound of silence
And the small voices of wind
An ants journey which never ends
A cockroach without a head...

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God administers with equality for all in His independent law
                   providing equal protection for all without any discrimination
                                human beings try to follow that rule but
                            in the campus of religions with discrimination...

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He was the big stud-on-campus, was Todd,

   Until he was nabbed smokin' somethin' odd!

      Coach booted him from the team.

         Up in smoke went Mommy's dream,

            Of Todd being on a pro-football squad!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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he does not have
size, nor age either,
and makes no sound
no hills up and down
but it goes through virginal campus
as beauty's devil big-head fool!

it really is 
a year
screaming
child, or boy
ah, very well invisible
no style


do not know
how
they can live so
watch it
love it
and still wondering it....

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Just a soul without an owner
A drifted mystic persona 
A body slipped into a coma 

Art is the creation
A dreams realisation
An ideas preservation

Art without a canvas 
An address-less campus 
A globe without an atlas

A printer with no toner 
An upper without a lower
Just a soul without an owner...

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J-ust let the woes wane, 
A-fter the Saturday night; 
N-ew dawn has broken, 
E-rasing the twilight.

A-llow the thrill to come, 
S-unday fifth February; 
T-o finish the heartache, 
E-nding the long misery.
J-ust go home now, 
A-s it's a two-day hiatus; 
D-on't celebrate your birth
A-t the school campus....

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I have some seeds,
in my box,
precious seeds
which,
when I plant them,
if I plant them,
could make 
the whole world
happy.

But for now
they remain
in my box
awaiting 
my decree.
 _________________________________________
My first and only published poem - a campus literary broadsheet as a 2nd yr undergrad...

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Refusing the warnings to disperse, with their menacing cops,
a great refusal, for history books, and a chance to join
the global chorus of peace.
The lies that demonize you
melt under the sun of your
moral clarity.
From the Charles river to the Pacific coast,
your chant of disenchantment with war
will set you free....

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It's a glorious moment, a watershed,
the campuses of apathy
brought to new life in rebellion
It's 1968 all over again
and the homicidal warmonger 
on the defensive.
How wonderously they 
march to the patty wagons
with lion's heart! Clapped by a whole nation
disgusted by their politicians' complicity with
genocide....

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Andrea Pozzo used the quadratura technique
but innovatively gave it a tweak
Creating a 3d space upon the flat
what do you think of that*

*https://www.alamy.com/andrea-pozzo-ceiling-painting-the-church-of-st-ignatius-of-loyola-at-campus-martius-italian-chiesa-di-santignazio-di-loyola-in-campo-marzio-lati-image180215835.html...

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Slow and steady I advance
Observing all on the campus
A strange circle is circling
Some passing, some following and some starting, 

Life is from life coming
Life is from element leaving
Staying life in element is lively
Leaving life from element is deadly, 

Life containing element it is
Element departing life it is....

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I have done the worst
The worst I have seen
The unspeakable I have said
I have behold the 
Nakedness of the sacred
Who are the sacred?
Them, the Principalities on campus
Sacrilege became my other name
To whom did I commit this sacrilege?
Yet, all are of no consequence.


Alayande Stephen T.
3.10am
12th October, 2007...

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Falling classrooms
are a laboratory of learning
cheer your nation with one heart
for the generosity
of poorly trained teachers
to make you doubt all ideas
Poor library and resources
challenge your search for knowledge
Poor facilities in the campus
train observation skills
Lack of textbooks
force you learn naturally
by yourself...

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