Short Freshman Poems

This one's a dork
     That one's a nerd
   Both of 'em geeks
     Couple of nerds

   This all started
     with fraternity rush
   'Carry my bags!
     You freshman plebe...

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Formidable floundering frisky fish followed furiously, 
Flogging fourteen flustered freshman froggies
Furious followers filed fine-tuning finesse
Frostily furthering fruitless froggy fortitude....

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Encounter with Christ by faith* yielded first spiritual poem.

Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

October 4, 2020

1st place, "How My First Poem Was Born" Contest
Sponsored by JCB Burl; judged on 10/8/2020....

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A
College Dorm sleeps
Four per room
Keg party 
Loud
Too much Boom

           A
Drunk freshman sleeps
Where he falls
Coeds toss him on 
The sofa 
Instead of snooze in
the halls

            A 
Sorority girl 
Named him  
“Sofa King Tool”
Now he feels like a Fool
Not Sofa King Cool...

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THERE ONCE WAS A BOY WHO WAS A FRESHMAN

WHO’S STUDY HABITS WERE A MESS-MAN

TOM WOULD NEVER GRADUATE FROM YALE

HE WOULD SURELY WIND UP IN JAIL

ALWAYS HIDING AWAY FROM THE ARREST MAN


QUOTE:
" I'm so smart, I can fool myself,
but I'm too stupid to figure me out."
Warner Baxter  2015...

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He tried so hard to be
everybody’s friend, agreed
with everything we said.

Some of us liked him,
others were indifferent,
some of us mocked him.

He was from a small town,
a freshman at a big school.
He echoed what we said

before we finished saying it.
There was nothing we could do
to find out what he never said.


Donal Mahoney...

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Found this poem I wrote in my 
freshman year in high school 
(2006)

Why does my heart beat
I am alone upon this earth
No one to love me
No one to hold
No one to touch
No one to call my own
This feeling in my heart
A hole I can't fill
Everything I touch, driven away
So here I am
In solitude I lay
On this lonely, lonely valentines 
day...

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Guarded by the sea,
lying lonely in her bed
of silver shell.

Her disguise is sublime.
Objects of desire are rare
and hard to find...

Pearldivers, take care
I once let her slip through
my freshman hands,
so precious was she, hard to hold.

Every day i dream
about that pearl.  My diver's
heart lies close to hers,
at the bottom of the sea....

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I was a freshman at wellington and wise 
when a sure footed poet pulled out her knife 
 
my head was split open and locks spread foursquare 
my flesh cut to servings and tongue sliced de jour  
 
the high poetess then clawed out my heart 
before she devoured me bite after bite 
 
the freshman departed, the poet refrained 
with a big wet smile from verse to verse...

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In hot August I’ll make my departure,
the trembling freshman imposter,
to dance with unknown partners,
in our quests to join the rosters
of future scholars and doctors.

Like Columbus I’ll journey not knowing
exactly where I am going -
and like our brave-foolish captain I’m hoping
that the planned years of furious rowing,
will deliver me to where (I think) I am going....

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school again
got my pen
staring at the new guy ben
who's staring at cindy wren
i bet he watches c.n.n
school forms, got to fill again
that freshman looks like they're seven
this place is nothing like hevean
wanna fly away and find some zen
and some cute men
so hot, smells like a pig pen
with my best friend glen
we try to survive again
oh my god we are seniors, seniors 2010...

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Three a.m.,beloved, longtime friend!
Would you relish tea and crumpets now?
Rushing in fast from inspiration bend!
My eager freshman pen,doth brightly allow.

Ideas grope their way, demand their say.
A bright silver clash,as butterflies dance.
Images, each, powerfully,want their way
As passionate lovers in moonlit romance.

                       4/1/2023


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There once was a freshman from Thomaston
In ignorance wanted to have just fun
When facing failing grades
Played even more arcades
His higher education now undone  

Syllables: 7-10 lines 1,2, and 5(10)
5-7 syllables lines 3, 4(6)
Written: July 09, 2015
Inspired by Andrea's contest..
Quote chosen that was written by Mark Twain: "Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty".....

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I have another piece that's too long for the poetry section - so it's in "Short Stories."

It's called "arguments" - about my summer vacation between freshman & sophomore year (at university).

I know I could take things out - to make the piece shorter and fit here - but then it's not what I wanted to say *shrug*

Here's the link:

https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/arguments_10600

I hope you like it!...

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I have another piece that's too long for the poetry section - so it's in "Short Stories."

It's called "Saturday night" - about my summer vacation between freshman & sophomore year (at university).

I know I could take things out - to make the piece shorter and fit here - but then it's not what I wanted to say *shrug*

Here's the link:

https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/saturday_night_10625

I hope you like it!
- Anais...

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Countless memories,
Laughter and tears
Always to be remembered,
Moments of these past four years

Freshman year,
Brand new places
It's a fresh start,
With many new faces

Sophomore year,
Better knowing
Waiting for the end,
Always growing

Junior year,
Almost there
Many tests,
Better prepare

Senior year,
One last year
After this you'll be gone,
It's reason for cheer

All the drama,
Between boys and friends
Not knowing what to do,
Having to make amends...

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With Jethro Tull playing in my ear
On a night whose memory I still hold dear
In my college dorm my Freshman year
Of virginity status I stepped clear

The intent was to study history
Biology, to me, still a mystery
I could sense her scooting close to me
When we got to D-Day there was victory

Our relationship didn’t last too long
My performance that night wasn’t real strong
But the memory still brings a big smile on
Of my very first night in a time long gone...

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He left without saying goodbye
How could someone so young die?
I’ll never forget the day
When our principle came in to say,
“We lost a fellow classmate today.”
Our heads went blank our bodies still
No one wanted to believe these words were real
Over half a year has gone by
And alone at night I still cry
He was the freshman clown,
Known, by most of the town.
He was so young when he had to die
And was never given the chance to say goodbye
Dedicated to PRJ 09/19/85-09/28/99...

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Stop watching me with those derisory eyes 
sweet like bear claw
spicy like a bell pepper
give me back my barette
I'm not letting my hair down'
from cooties to copacetic my biggest disease
jus like when u was  freshman
lost your retainer cried all day
give me back my fanny pack
you kept it all those years
crazy grifter lost on the freeway
looking for route 66 in a gay way
why you back jerk off?
scads of luv but to late
here's a sawbuck go call someone who cares!...

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My freshman reading list is
    Thomas Payne, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky
  The prof is not one to pitschky-potschky  

  The leaders to be studied will be
    Elijah Muhammed, Stalin, Castro, Marx, and Xi
  I wonder why A.H. is an absentee

  O, I get it -- Good things come in fives
    USA, Russia, China, Cuba and Syria
  Nazi Germany too busy taking lives

  Looking forward to an action-packed semester
    in this new course called ~
  'Proud Traditions of our Ancestors'...

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"You are not alone!" the sign was quite blunt;
phone number posted for the Crimson Corps.
Mental health of students at their forefront
as a cream and crimson fellow mentor.
Signs some IU students seem to ignore.
the Corps understands when students get blue.
Help must come before depression breaks through.
Fellow students remind freshman - take heed, 
first year away from home, tough to pursue.
Help looks for and listens to peers in need.

May 5, 2020

Dear Heart's Dizain contest...

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Aunt Grandma

I missed that you had an Aunt Grandma
Until I just read it again
It brought up so many questions
Just where does a fella begin
How does one get an Aunt Grandma
Is your dad’s sister really his mom
Did she make a mistake as a freshman
Attending some senior prom
Did they hide it by telling your daddy
That she was just a big sis
Or is this too touchy subject
I’m sorry I couldn’t resist

Mdailey	3/31/12

A facebook comment mentioned she had an Aunt Grandma.  I could not pass that up....

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