A new spring
...The bitterly heavy rains had cleared,
and though the afternoon heat
reeked more of eternal summer
than of spring, we felt her hover
through our wide-eyed gazes,
the unapologetic smiles and in
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Categories:
undergrads, education, imagery, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
all too soon
...Classes started up again today. Soon, we’ll be gloriously stressed, and clocked-up on whatever. Our hearts will swell to the pre-med symphony - a frantic opus, composed in the key of no slee...
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Categories:
undergrads, humor, school, student, work,
Form: Free verse
On The Need For Success, Part I
...You hear to many people now
look at success like it’s a crime,
that anyone who’s achieved it
only got it through acts malign.
That everyone who’s made it big
somehow must be an ‘oppressor,’
tha...
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Categories:
undergrads, how i feel, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Unfairness
...Ultra-conservative
undertaker umpires
upperclassmen unit;
Unique undergrads used
Unceremonious
Underhanded unions--
Uncooperative!
THIRD PLACE WINNER
Written April 30, 2021...
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Categories:
undergrads, humor, word play,
Form: Verse
The Quadrangle Well
...They made a decorative well
in the campus
where books and laptops
were set aside
by the skinny staked
newly planted ancient oaks.
Students could sit there
to be good company
if they could fin...
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Categories:
undergrads, poetry,
Form: Free verse
He Wasn'T Wrong, Part Ii
......This happened when we were undergrads,
but then in his graduate studies
when he was working towards a career
that was entwined with biology,
he was working with a group that sought
to raise u...
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Categories:
undergrads, conflict, crazy, culture, how
Form: Narrative
To the Heavens For Hope
...Back again ...
Her daily hour of hope ...
She came every evening to The Hem ...
Just a big hole in the earth, really, a barren canyon of dust,
Perched on the south edge of the C...
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Categories:
undergrads, absence, adventure, africa, animal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Fight Goliath
...Hold it jumping knife
Lead me now
Off pride quality resembling stationary trains
Under velvet willows
xylem yields Zephaniah
Angelic baritone can decorate
Everything from gi...
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Categories:
undergrads, fun, word play,
Form: ABC