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Yale Poems - Poems about Yale


Premium Member Chella
The home where Chella grew up, in the ghetto of Liberty City Florida, had beige carpets so old that pieces of the tuft and twirl would come out of the backing under-foot. The apartment window shades were white floral plastic rectangles cut from an old shower curtain. She shared a bedroom with two younger siblings and...

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Categories: yale, childhood, feelings, friend, history,
Form: Free verse
To A Poet At Yale
Old enough to be your Grandfather Young enough to be your Friend Wise enough to see your Greatness Where time and tide — depend (University City: April, 2025) ...

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Categories: yale, friend, poets,
Form: Rhyme



A December Memento
A star is born among teen bards and soon he'll lead in Yale's vanguards. Young Will Chen shines, a full ride won; his language skills beam bright, bar none. Congratulations! best regards! December 9, 2022 AN: Quadri-lngual high school senior poet, William Chen was accepted full tuition paid at Yale on December 1, 2022. A long awaited moment never to fade from...

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Categories: yale, 11th grade, language, memory,
Form: Quintilla
Anais' Tanning Smarts
A lesson learnt in ancient Rome: Beware the sun with sea-salt foam But learnt at Yale With skin so pale Don't leave your bikini at home!...

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Categories: yale, humor,
Form: Limerick
I Had a Dream
A great man had a dream Ending in a murder scene And I'm not such a man Never been so brave or grand But little one I had a dream About a nation that became... A dazzling sky The heroes of youth A burning ache Resurrecting Truth My dreamy one I had a dream About a nation that became... A guiding hand Wipes the greed away A whistle blown Digs corruption's grave My...

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Categories: yale, america, dream, hope, inspirational,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member What Sends Them Harvard Poets
For Langston Hughes What sends them Harvard poets I just couldn't do it, Sir: What sends them Harvard poets I just couldn't do it, Sir: They'll never give me a Pulitzer. What tickles them Yale poets Just leaves me sad an' a grievin': What tickles them Yale poets Leaves me sad an' a grievin': Never seen no Birch trees On a snowy evenin'. Then Oxford...

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Categories: yale, america, discrimination, judgement, metaphor,
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: yale, allegory, anxiety, black african
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Ghost of One Who Yawns Addresses Yale
You would not have dared look into my face When it wore flesh and scowled Upon the world your people forced on me, You sons of Mammon, You children of Ivied Privilege. I was Terror to the Mexican, The name their tongue gave me Became a word for courage in your own - Yet you pampered ones, Who would never see The troglodyte face...

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Categories: yale, history, imagination, native american,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I Died On the Operating Table At Yale
I died on the operating table at Yale. My brain aneurysm explosion was off the scale. My heart, my brain and my lungs all failed. My life was shaken like a 10 on the Richter scale. My life, like a train, was totally derailed. I left my body and above it I sailed. I looked at my body and it appeared...

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Categories: yale, death, faith, health, inspirational,
Form: Narrative

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