Soul Food

From Art of Mind: Philosopoems to the World

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*Soul Food*

Cornbread and Collard Greens
Is one thing,
You may even refuse golden beans,
But answer me just one thing:
Who doesn’t like a chicken wing?

No tongue can renounce
Fried Chicken,
Regardless of region or pigment,
To push this off on one group —
Is imagination’s own vivid figment.

Pig feet can surely be beat,
Chitlins may take their toll,
But to not like ribs or chicken—
Is to exist without a soul

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College Poetry: Alma Mater Vol. 2 Available Now!

Do you want to learn about all the major universities of the Northeast region in a creative and engaging fashion within just a few days’ time? Have you ever wanted to know what makes each university across this great country unique? Football season is upon us! Now is the perfect time to learn where the school pride you see on Saturday afternoons comes from! And you can do just that for 99 cents.

100 Colleges of the Northeast are celebrated in the second installment of the series that Kirkus Reviews calls “A Thoroughly Unique Poetry Project” with “A variety of delightfully unexpected poetic forms.” It is a collection that is all things college: Educational, Interactive, Experimental, and of course: Fun. Come see why Kirkus Magazine featured the series, calling it a collection of “Delightfully unexpected poetic forms.” You are cordially invited to the poetry party of the year. Do join us.

 

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Use My Imagination

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Flip the Switch

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Feel Them All

Listen.

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University of Dayton Poem

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Cleveland State University Poem

From Alma Mater Vol. 1: The Midwest. Available Now!

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*Cleveland State University*

CSU is where Engaged Learning happens,
For two Vikings, this is where it began:
In the classroom of Cleveland, Ohio,
The learning environment where Vikings grow.
These two Vikings took real-world experience
To advance their careers and push one another
To experience a love & a love for the city,
And shove into a deep as great as the Erie.
They danced in the East Fourth Street District,
Joined in restaurants on West 6th and West 9th,
They danced more at Barflyy & Anatomy,
These downtown lights join the Academy—
In a ride of art, museums, and love,
Under the lights of Progressive—
Is where they fell in love.
On this four-year anniversary, right before graduation,
In the stands on college night: there’s a new celebration…
On the big screen during the 7th inning stretch,
He proposed, she accepted, cheers rang from the decks!
Like their future careers, these Vikings’ love paid,
It was in CSU’s class where they first were engaged.

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Xavier University

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*Xavier University*

Xavier has built an army
Made of blood and silver tears,
We are the Musketeers—
Holding muskets near.

In Cintas
We have no fear,
There’s such a high volume—
Everclear.
When time runs out,
We will not disperse,
The Musketeer Army
Never Clears.

Xavier has built an army
Made of blood and silver tears,
We are the Musketeers—
Each musket never clears.

Faith is our musket,
Fear not it won’t harm or kill you,
We shoot from the heart—a stretched firearm
That will go off to reach & heal you.

Xavier has built an army
Made of blood and silver tears,
At ease, our muskets near—
We are the Musketeers.

Xavier has built an army
Made of blood and silver tears,
At ease, our muskets near—
We are the Musketeers.

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Wright State University Creative Piece

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*Wright State University*

A second-semester sophomore at Wright State University was flying through her Classical Humanities Program when she received a phone call that changed her life.
Then another.
And another.
She received these life-changing phone calls for months until she decided to make a change in order to make a difference.
It was a rocket-propelled grenade that exploded near the Black Hawk helicopter
that took the limbs of a fighter pilot from Dayton, Ohio. They projected the recovery time with therapy would be a year; but with the care of nurses and doctors with the best neuroscience and rehab, she has learned to move forward and fight for tomorrow with the ammo of hope.
Some people change majors in order to change lives, and after dining at The Hangar with her attentive roommate,
She decided to change majors in her sophomore year
To become a Rehabilitation Services Major—
So that she can help others like people helped her sister.
Wright State is the double clutch that gears us to the direction we are called to go—
Transmitting ambushes of epiphanies above the safety propellants.
After graduating into the world resolved to make a difference,
She got another phone call from her sister;
This time to share that she will graduate next semester.
With the therapy and artificial parts given in her care,
She was strong and prepared when Wright State gave her life new legs.
She graduated a Proud Raider just like her baby sister;
Now through the wings that carry,
The Wright Sisters are
Flying across Dayton, Ohio…
In quest of more kind lives
To Change.

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Ashland University Piece

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*Ashland University*

Ashland University believes that every individual should have a voice,
And with this voice every Eagle should embark:
To leave an accent mark.

On your mark.

Go.

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