Wellesley College Tribute

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*Wellesley College*

Sisterhood’s the cornerstone of Wellesley,
This fam’ makes the grade via A-listers,
Dear school by the lake, your beauty tells thee,
Each class a color, each soul with sisters.
Colors unite as white clouds to the Blue,
Wellesley sisters, your true colors suit you,
They Scream from Tunnels to tell your story,
Singing at Houghton helps yell your glory.
A center world-figures have called their home,
Clinton, Sawyer, and Dahl are professors
of Wellesley’s guidance from great professors
Who’ve led Wellesley to a league of its own:
Where women aren’t ministered unto,
They edify the world they leap onto.

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Tufts University Poem

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*Tufts University*

There is a light at the top of the hill,
And this light shines Brown & Blue,
There are candles in ritual—held for the new,
Welcome to Tufts & our Jumbo zeal.

We are the light at the top of the hill,
This land of new ivy is reaped by a few,
This power in Mass was heaped by the true;
They formed Tufts and Tufts reforms still.

A century count of one & a half—
Accounts for the history that we hold,
And this bond that no other school can grasp.

Other Ivies behold what the Jumbos hold—
This fearless light that they cannot have,
Eclipsing the spotless halls they were told.

Tufts defies time like the Gravity Stone,
The ties from Tuftonia remain each day,
Our bids on the times helped vend eBay,
Keeping Victoria’s secret was Raymond’s loans.

Tufts is the opportunity our fathers have shone
Onto each class so that Jumbos can slay
The dark uncertainties that stand in the way
Of promise that great Jumbos have shown.

The promise of Tufts is one that is kept
By each class that raises the candle
For the Tufts name and all of its depth.

Tufts gives you a chance, so come take a gamble,
By the end of day one, and once you have slept,
You will carpe diem with a brand new handle.

Run nude in the Quad and have a Spring Fling,
As long as your roommate is gone of course,
Sing along to the music until you go hoarse,
Cheer Tufts’s sounds & let the good times ring!

The goodness that Tufts continues to bring,
Like fondue nights and stir-fry on course,
Sustains our fight to stay the course,
Then climb the hill and to Tufts U. cling.

On the famed hill you will find a cannon,
That like our A Cappella—soothes the beast,
By providing the space to paint by the gallon.

The story of our pursuits for the hill won’t cease,
This light on the hill helped us write the canon,
And on this hill we have each found peace.

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Smith College Tribute

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*Smith College*

She sings a snaring song.
A song not to dance to,
But dedicated to gliding forward.

She sings a mind-altering song for
Those who were always told it is unsafe
To dive the waters.

She sings of writers and activists,
First Ladies and authors who
Went With the Wind…
Until in the new place she has now found:
Her name is read beyond this mailbox,
Proving she arrived &
She belongs.

She sings a song.

A song of Ivy Days radiating perennial blue
In the firmament of the North she resides.
A song rising like Delphinium Blue Birds
that echoes,
We are not flowers;
We are
The Earth.

A song shared with her six brilliant sisters
Whose sibling rivalries have pushed her off the stairs
Into the Illumination waiting in the night.

She sings her song
Without sorrow,
How sweetly it sounds
of tomorrow.

She sings to her sisters, the mothers, your daughters,
She sings to the world,
I have made it here,
On her own, that’s the song
Of a Pioneer.

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Job Security + Workplace Insecurity =…

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*Job Security + Workplace Insecurity =…*

If she has provided for shelters in need — with an ungenerous salary, but a generous heart…

If she has volunteered to help many foundations — in order to rebuild a better community…

If she has selected a giving profession — in order to help touch — and heal lives…

If she has given all of herself — for every minute — of every day — long after her shift is through…

Would all that cancel out the time she posed nude in that “inappropriate” magazine?

Probably not…

That wouldn’t set a good example.

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UMass Boston Tribute

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*UMass Boston*

A flood of Blue & White lives here by the harbor,
As Downtown Boston overflows with ardor,
We keep—this city that walks afloat
With drunken sailors who rock the boat.
Members of the UMass Sailing Crew
Glide Broadway and then all through
The pubs and each part of Titletown—
Waves of students deemed tidal bound.
A city that’s left other towns in ruins,
Cheers to the Patriots-Sox-Celtics & Bruins,
May the starkness of our classes allay,
In March when we toast to St. Patrick’s Day.
The Boston globe sets free without bail,
And those who walk take the Freedom Trail,
The further we sail, the more we deepen:
As Blue & White lights from Boston’s Beacon.

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Sensitive

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*Sensitive*

That Dirty Hobo has been out in the cold too long…

He’s Numb.

That Filthy Slut has been Slammed so many times…

She can’t Feel Anything.

As the nation becomes more Politically Correct with Every Passing Year:

I guess some just aren’t worth the Coverage.

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Amherst College Poem

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*Amherst College*

Amherst professors render the wide realm,
For uncaged sunshine to sharply traverse,
Deciduousness home flown from the elm,
Discussions where learning and Jeffs converse.
The plays on new words one cannot rehearse,
Just hew at dim views, then view reduction,
Muse Sabrina springs original verse,
A singing college—belting eruption,
Of lights to the world—led by instruction.

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Williams College

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*Williams College*

The biggest faction of the Little Three,
Williams is home to thought resurrections,
With Ephs sweeping cause with a liberty,
Glass ceilings break from their great reflections.

The Arts and Sciences is still our zeal,
To stay #1 is the Williams pledge,
This mountaintop leaves donuts as our meal,
Friday in October atop Stony Ledge.

Winter Studies hold windborne collections,
Free-thinkers of Williams help rule our field,
A college named best by the elections,
Building names like President James Garfield.

Signs of rich designations are what we write,
The coloration is Purple, Gold, and White.

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Final Say

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*Final Say*

Year after Year,
Day after Day,
Beautiful Faces
Keep
Fading Away.
They display photographs of famous faces
That I no longer recognize.
They memorialize images of common people that I have never seen.
The late are displayed the same as when they departed,
and the same with the living elderly, even if a celebrity.
Sometimes I notice that middle age is not far ahead and prime not far behind.
But what I Always seem to notice
In All these photographs:
Are beautiful faces that have faded away.

Each photograph is so up to date…
Of course it has to be up to date…
Right?
We must show them as we remember them,
Not as they may wish to be remembered.
They must display the most recent of what remained,
but If they Really want to be Post-Modern:
Why not show the Remains?
If that representation wouldn’t be fair,
Why any different than when they’ve lost their hair?
When selecting the image
to remember them by,
Do not automatically start from today:
Let’s give Them a Say.

If I could address the media — during my Last Rites,
I’d Demand my Own Representation,
That should be in
All our Rights.

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Boston University Tribute

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*BU*

It begins in the fall,
That’s when we fall for it all,
Oh BU−How we love you.
The Gah-dens of spring,
And Fenway Park of summer,
Is where the love comes shining through.

Souls
Joining souls,
Singing out
Touching meee
Tou-ching youuuuuu

Sweet Red & White! (OH, OH, OH!)
These times always feel so good (So Good, So Good, So Good!)
Oh, what a site! (OH, OH, OH!)
Leave Beantown I never could,

And
Now
I’m

In Agganis,
The Dog Pound is never lonely,
This is where we claim our fate.
The Beanpot is won,
And as Boston’s Champions—
The Terriers
Choose to Be Great.

Song
Forming Songs,
Reaching out
Touching meeee
Tou-ching youuuuuuu

Sweet Red & White! (OH, OH, OH!)
These times always feel so good (So Good, So Good, So Good!)
Oh, what a site! (OH, OH, OH!)
Leave Beantown I never could,

And
How
We

Wear it so loud.
The colors of Boston are here:
The school, the parks, they’re everywhere.
Red & White shirts.
We even have white with Red Sox
In harmony with our BU.

Oh,
Souls
Joining souls,
Singing out
Touching meee
Tou-ching youuuuuuuuu

Sweet Red & White! (OH, OH, OH!)
This blend never looked so good (So Good, So Good, So Good!)
Oh, what a site! (OH, OH, OH!)
Leave Beantown I never could.

Sweet Red & White (OH, OH, OH!)
Each time always feels so good (So Good, So Good, So Good!)
Sweet Red & White (OH, OH, OH!)
Forget these nights I never could.

Sweet Red & White…

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