Short Campuses Poems
Short Campuses Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Campuses by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Campuses by length and keyword.
Beaches - and Dickinson
I
The word, when said
Makes some go dead
The sound of dog (she)
II
Most beaches lead somewhere
Some beaches lead nowhere
Truth or dare (campuses
Have grassy, waterless beaches)
III
Dickinson: words begin living
"when it is said" (not dead)
Emily knew of flight
In Fight to write...
Read More
Categories:
campuses, allusion, america, angst, lonely, lost love, words,
Form:
Other
The Campus Conquerors
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....
Read More
Categories:
campuses, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Protests
In the 60’s we protested
Out on the quads
With our armbands and banners and signs
‘Til the rage manifested
By police riot squads
Put a damper on all our designs.
We erected no tents
And we went home to sleep
But were sure we could orchestrate change.
Yet these current events
Which on campuses sweep
Seem, to me, very different and strange.
...
Read More
Categories:
campuses, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme