Poems

  • Finals Week: a poem

    Finals Week: a poem

    *Inspired by a walk through campus during finals week.*   Finals Week: A Poem   The smell of coffee and desperation is in the air. All along hallways students frantically thumb through textbooks, Mutter over notebooks, And curse over flashcards. Students pass-out on the floor, Backpacks used as pillows and jackets as blankets. I walk…

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  • Grandpa’s Stories

    Grandpa’s Stories

    My favorite Holiday is fast approaching- THANKSGIVING! In honor of this family-gathering Holiday I thought a little family-centered poem would be in order.   A family tradition Of our own making- Grandpa’s stories told at each gathering   Tales of misadventure: Of a child, Marine, father, and grandpa, Delight and entertain the growing clan.  …

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  • Devils- Found Poem

    Devils- Found Poem

    *This is a found poem written for a school project. Every word and line is taken from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness*   That heart of darkness, Is it not frightful? The shackled form of a conquered monster; Truth stripped of its cloak of time, The truth of the “civilized man”.   Angel or a fiend?…

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  • My Sailor

    My Sailor

    Oh my sailor, across the sea oceans crossed from me, Where I pine and dream, But cannot be with my sailor across the sea.   Oh my sailor, across the sea. Please promise you think of me as I want here, Patiently, For my sailor across the sea.   Oh my sailor, across the sea,…

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  • Monsters

    Monsters

    We talk of monsters- Of things inhumane. Unnatural, evil creatures Lurking in the dark.   We talk of monsters- Of things unlike us. Twisted, unreal beasts- Part of another world.   We talk of monsters- As if they aren’t real. Imagined, conceived visions- figurative illusions.   We talk of monsters- But we are the monsters:…

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