Short Dormitory Poems

Remembering the good times
in my college dormitory
  I come up empty

Is it me that's changed
  or my memory...

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The women screamed when a man peeked into the room.
The seasoned nurse said pardon you! To the groom.
Is my wife in here? He asked, with his face in the door.
I will be there in a minute, said his wife, name Eleanor.

The other women were glad for her, but did not like to see
A peeking Tom even if it was her husband, Mr. McFee.
This was a women’s dormitory, no men allowed.
Even one little man seemed to feel a bit like a crowd....

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Ah! death the deceiver,
"come,lie,relax and 
take a deep slumber",
with sweet lies,
death deceived your father,
from piles of wrapper
 to his ghostly dormitory,
on a bed with earth as coverings.

let this musical notes be carried,
by the white dove bird,
along the hallowed path he ascend,
may be they will give him strength,
to fight his way back to us.

but he looks not back,
his soul is gone to hide,
from death,
from us
 and above the sky....

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