Short Faculty Poems

I had a bit of rational faculty;
unfortunately, 
stolen by a piece of poetry!


feride serin

çeviri : Songül Aynali...

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Recalling December
a faculty member
primarily contrarily
dismissed Christmas.
For goodness sake,
give me a break!

written December 6, 2021...

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November
I remember
No surrender
Faculty member
Since September
Thanksgiving dinner
Turkey dismember
Coming together
Dying ember

written November 2, 2021...

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Once there was a man called Hot, the thief
Crash and Smoke are his favorite disciples
Crash profess "Hell the modesty"
Smoke profess "Pray the modesty"
bloody what could be a common cause?...

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mysteries
    of
       the poetic
        process,
beyond
        reality:
this
   creative
   faculty
of
universal
    anthology:
visions
     crystallised
from
chance
     discoveries..
...into
    spoken
      symbols...

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Rain washing through my open heart.
Glistening in the breaks and lacerations.
Bloodless drips abolish the evocation of pain.
Faculty of mind syphoned, immediate sublimation.
I roam eternity, interstellar dust once more
From where I came, I shall return...

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The source of nutrients
My mental stimulus,
The body sculptor,
Thy blessing I seek.

Body creator,
Beauty chic,
Belly friend,
Thy hand I seek

Vigour provider,
Vision faculty,
The thoughts knack,
Thy pleasure I seek.

For consummation,
Figure growth,
Rational accordance,
Thy filling I seek...

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conceived faculty 
surreal improbable 
image of perfection 
created within a land 
of fantasy 
placed you 
up atop a 
high pedestal
were you would 
loom over 
the land irrational 
demands 
casting down 
the lay of the 
land 
condemning 
all that were 
quilty of breaking 
the pet-peeve-laws...

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imagination
   the queen
        of truth
an inner
        eye
to transform
the symbols
of
   the mind
from
    the
      well
          of
            chance
               imaginings:
into
a song
of the
moment
         ..selected
..from..
a storehouse
of the uncatalogued
to images
....enthroned...

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Give me the liberty to know
To utter and
To argue freely 
According to my conscience 
Such prerogatives and whims
A sinister force capable 
of crushing me at will
Above all Liberties 
Thus when the sun shines 
so am I 
But when night falls 
so are my fears
That noble faculty of reason
Not given to me to rust unused.........

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If I had a clone
I would send her to my faculty meetings on Wednesdays.
I would have her do my paperwork.
I would have her clean this bedroom.
I would not be too friendly,
I would not engage her in idle conversation.
I would keep her busy, doing everything I detest.
She would vacuum, cook, clean, dust, and mop.
If I had a clone....

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(Faculty X)


Cricket

Cricket cricket 

Cricket cricket cricket

Cricket cricket cricket cricket

Cricket

(Silence)


Cricket cricket

Silence....

Silence....

Silence....

(There's somebody behind you...... )

(footsteps....)


FADE TO BLACK.....








**Experimental in the spirit of Halloween**...

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He never knew a thing about it
besides the shoe pack.
In that Box!?!?
Faculty,
Cutlery pom pom in a green.
Open can of tomatoes.
Not THE can.
*Lick*
Mmm. Blueberry vacuum cleaner.
Feather! Feather could be a salute.
Like to a tyrant?
Yeah, like Hitler
Hush, Hush, don't say that.

I wouldn't, could you?
I couldn't, but would....

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Seeing his rival celebrity on the screen, 
He is with envy green;
By him thought a fortunate being,
Of all nominees their Faculty’s Dean;
Only thirty years ago did his mother him wean.
A reason to be starving and be forever lean;
For facial expression keep wearing “The Mean”
No occasional reliefs to feign:
Jealousy should forever reign!...

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La-di-da land

In la-di-da land
The style is grand

The people are presumptuous
And their spending ostentatious

Their language is grandiloquent
But their thinking faculty is somnoluent

There, the smallest animal is elephant
And their look is elegant

The people love conspicuous consumption
And at all times, they crave for sweet sensation...

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We are given an opportunity to share a celebration
at each weekly Wednesday morning faculty meeting.
I was determined not to be the first one every single time.
I held myself back the last two meetings.
But today BAM there went my hand.
I have no idea why I find it necessary to be first.
Am I helping the boss?
Am I priming the pump?
Or am I just being me?...

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boring meeting.
faculty
we have them weekly
every Wednesday it takes me an extra ten
or twenty-five minutes to get home
mandated 
Even though it usually talks about
teaching math and reading
I teach neither
I begin to write poetry
A co-worker asks, “What are you writing?”
it is about her. She glances at it.
but can read nothing.
I am glad I know shorthand....

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Oh, Nous,*

You, divine faculty of perception

Mother of conception

Source of understanding

Gate of Wisdom

Without your presence deaf and blind I would be

Perpetually. oblivious to truth eternal!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
       13 July 2018







* Nous\, n. [ from Greek] (Philosophy) Reason; is the highest intellect; 
God is regarded as the World's Reason....

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It is a unanimous decision
Shirley is not at our faculty meeting.
We appoint her “in charge” of spirit day – Wednesday! 
Watch out! Her teaching partner cautions us,
but she does not offer to do it.
Neither do the other twenty-six people there.
Thus, we are wearing go-go boots, miniskirts, and tassels
and anyone older than sixty has to do a handstand.
That is me. 
Serves us all right....

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The Turbulent Euphrates
Russell Abdur Rahman

The halitosis of Monstrum Luscus Dajjal
Is getting intensed in the air
Turbulent Euphrates!
The floor is swaping the ceiling!
The fairness of contrast,
The moon appeals more than the Sun
Is it an omen? Love in an advent of cattle-ravaged change
Murderer knows no cause of murder, sterile faculty of ration
The earth gets tumulted by the barbarian civilization...

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The Turbulent Euphrates
Russell Abdur Rahman

The halitosis of Monstrum Luscus Dajjal
Is getting intensed in the air
Turbulent Euphrates!
The floor is swaping the ceiling!
The fairness of contrast,
The moon appeals more than the Sun
Is it an omen? Love in an advent of cattle-ravaged change
Murderer knows no cause of murder, sterile faculty of ration
The earth gets tumulted by the barbarian civilization...

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The deep wounds and scars of the past
The rigours and torment of the present 
The blurry and scary pictures of the future 
Like a stampeding Buffalo have destroyed my morale
Leaving me in the cave with the serpent of risky thinking faculty

With depression I have struggled 
With thoughts of suicide I have wrestled 
Guess it is time to gain freedom from this burning and tormenting pain
Guess it is best to end it all now...

ABSOL...

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Pay respects to both your elders
& the rejects

Showing hate to any person
Reflects your inner thoughts

It's best to be at rest
Think things through without acting a pest

Negativity infects the air
Around those who wish to share

Thought-waves emit from our being
While most don't believe what they are seeing

Aura's enshroud & form a cloud
Growing intensity as you read aloud
The words that surround
& can only confound if you decide
to shout......

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I’m as proud as proud as can be
My son’s gained his first class degree
He’s a rising star
And sure to go far ...
He didn’t get his brains from me!

He won awards for 'exceptional student of the year on his course, best individual project in his faculty (he is a world record holder for the work on his project) and he shared another award with  4 other students for the top 5 students on their course.

1st July 2016...

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That big, elusive doctorate degree,
pretty much like an emperor's decree;

         a kind of fetish that academes require,
         sort of survival kit one must acquire;


within the realm of the university,
part of the myth of tenured security;


         its twin is the rule: "publish or perish,"
         a choice most faculty hate to cherish;

and yet they churn out books with little rest,
paperwork enough to clear a rain forest!...

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