Length: 2 pages
Student: Nursing
Description: This poem captures the essence of heartache in love that blends the beauty of wining and losing and the pain it brings but the light it gives.
Student: Nursing
Description: I discovered tardigrades while browsing the internet and found them adorable, but after I read an article about them being almost indestructible and their likelihood to survive the end of the world, they became even more fascinating to me and have come to surpass sloths as my most favorite animals in the world. For some reason, I find their invincibility inspiring, that despite the potential extinction of humanity, these microscopic animals will live on.
Student: Business Administration
Description: An elaboration of a human condition.
Student: Computer Information Systems
Whispers In The Moonlight
Beneath the veil of silver night,
Where shadows dance in pale moonlight,
I hear your voice-a fleeting sound,
A whisper lost, yet somehow found.
The moonlight air is laced with fate,
As if the stars anticipate
The way our hands, like secrets met,
Entwine in dreams we can’t forget.
Your touch-a ghost upon my skin,
A fire where the dark begins,
A silent promise left unspoken,
A spell uncast, a curse unbroken.
Yet in your gaze, the world distorts,
A maze of love, a web of sorts,
Where every path leads back to you,
To mysterious the night once knew.
So let us linger, lost in time,
Between the stars, between the rhyme,
For love like this-so dark, so bright-
Belongs to whispers in the night.
Student: English Literature
Description: This poem came from a sudden burst of creativity while I was reading about Myths and Dreams in the first chapter of The Hero with a Thousand FacesĀ by Joseph Campbell. Reflecting on my own darker, more disturbing dreams, I set the book aside and rushed to my desk to write. This represents an inner call urging me towards my own Night Sea Journey where I confront my shadows. All of my deepest fears, struggles, and pain are laid out bare in poetry turning trauma into meaning.
Faculty: English & noncredit Entrepreneurship
Description: Short poem read as part of my presentation on the Circular Economy as the answer to Climate Change
Academic Major: English
Student: History
Description: A contemporary view of America’s current political climate through a religious concept. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. The title of the poem is also a play on the three distinct colors of the American flag itself: red, white, and blue. The poem can also be interpreted as a depiction of abusive dynamics between family members themselves. In addition to this, the repeated imagery of vegetation in the piece serves as a means of reinforcing how Mexicans in this country, specifically immigrants, are valued for their manual labor. It's not enough to exist without playing into the inherent hierarchy of American society, we unconsciously carry these burdens as though we deserve the condemnation of those who sit above us. The use of three stanzas also serves as a way of asserting the central structure of a "trinity". And, the implementation of a bilingualism allows those who may come across this poem to truly question the legitimacy of the message stated in English while also embracing my own roots.
