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Stanford Poems - Poems about Stanford


Premium Member Clerihew Stanford
Charles Villiers Stanford a composer who struck a chord Vey much akin tk Brahms in opus& musical psalms...

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Categories: stanford, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Stanford Warren and Barren Lands
I have heard of a Stanford Warren, Who chose to live in lands barren, Self submitting to predicament; It was simply not God’s Commandment. Warren tags it Rich Self-Denial And swears “Decision is final!” By full choice “Rock of Gibraltar’ “You can’t me change from your altar!” Was he after A Transformation: Out testing some dropped information? Former neighbor: multi-millionaire Former best friend stinking...

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Categories: stanford, absence, allusion, evil, money,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member They Wouldn'T Let Me Be White
They wouldn’t let me be White Oh I wanted to be Dreams of that Pulitzer haunted me They said, Sir, you have ten minutes to play I gave them Milton, Poe and Millay I stood before that panel Like I was auditioning for Jesus On judgment day I belted out those rhymes like Sandburg Gave them...

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Categories: stanford, allegory, anxiety, black african
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Stanford Says
The plug was pulled on the prison experiment While the state plugs away with apparent merriment While absolute power corrupts absolutely The people march during pandemic resolutely ***...

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Categories: stanford, corruption, history, power,
Form: Couplet
The Stanford Experiment
(For six days in mid-August, 1971, at Stanford University near San Francisco, a psychological experiment was conducted in which students took on the roles of prisoners and prison guards. The experiment had to be cut short, because the guards were indulging in unhealthily sadistic behaviour.) "Never again," we say. Those things can't be repeated. "We set...

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Categories: stanford, society,
Form: Rhyme




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