In the Twilight of Her Tears
...In the Twilight of Her Tears
by Michael R. Burch, age 19
In the twilight of her tears
I saw the shadows of the years
that had taken with them all our joys and cares ...
There in an ebbing ti...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, care, city, death, dream,
Form: Rhyme
At Night, In Response to the Vanderbilt Tragedy
...At Night, A Response to the Vanderbilt Suicide,
At Night, alone in my home,
I am afraid,
For in the dark, though God says fear not, I fear,
For the horrors I have known in my mind,
Though they...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, mental illness,
Form: Blank verse
TITANIC - FARE THEE WELL
...As I cling to what matters, fare thee well,
spoken as I drown in the hereafter;
and I’ll see you on the flip side of hell.
Tickets for this dreamy ship sought after…
By sea, everything for the ...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, death,
Form: Rhyme
Characteristics of a President of United States
...I have been reading Soul of America,
Battle for Better Angels lately. What I
like best about it is the descriptions
of successful Presidents. Book is by
Don Meacham who is an Episcopalian
f...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Mansions
...If your apartment or your house
Could use a slight expansion,
May I suggest, instead, that you
Just build yourself a mansion.
Today I've toured a couple,
Both in Hudson River towns.
With prop...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, house,
Form: Rhyme
Fire
...I fled from the clutch of boss
To stay clear of drop-dead day
My head was buzzy, eyes fuzzy
As if stepped on a big stingray.
They call me an angry ghost
A poltergeist of neighborhood
They are...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, anger, fun, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Ibm Town
...IBM Town
Dad whisked us away,
Mom heavy with babe,
Away from relative hands,
Two year old's off to IBM lands.
It was the machine of opportunity.
A place with technical commotion.
My Dad lo...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, childhood, home,
Form: Rhyme
Grand Central Depot
...Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
raised you as a monument
to his empire, and why shouldn’t he.
From humble beginnings his art was
monopoly. He understood the art in craft,
it seems, for grand i...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, america, history,
Form: Free verse
Home, James
...Home, James
By Elton Camp
The usual hallmark of the one percent
Is that by chauffeured limo they went
If Astor, Rockefeller or Vanderbilt
You knew they were loaded to the hilt
When they...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, people,
Form: Rhyme
The Potato Chip Revolution
...spawned in the summer of 1853
these sliced succulent deep fried wonders
resulted from the demands of a complaining customer
whose ******** led our man, a one,
mr. george crum
to do his best to...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, life
Form: Free verse
A Stroll At the Biltmore Estate
...The Student
As I strolled upon the green
and take in the breathtaking view of the front lawn
the onrush of winter geese take on the horizon,
waking me to my senses.
The silent roar of t...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, adventureme,
Form: Prose Poetry
Civil War Marker: Vanderbilt Campus
...History’s unpopular these days,
No one cares where Blues shot Greys,
Or where the tons of cannonballs were kept.
Union marker stands aloof, alone,
Monument of bronze and chisled stone,
And stude...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, history, giggle,
Form: Verse
Ii. Father Jones
...The passage was dark and damp
over a month locked inside a cell under the sea somewhere
but when Father Jones planted his feet back on solid ground
and saw the Statue of Liberty rising like a gree...
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Categories:
vanderbilt, family, father, hope, life,
Form: Narrative