Clinton Steele Poems

Dogmatic Death

A softly crying swell of emotion slowly unwinds its story through half whispered wishes.
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‘Holcomb’s World Lit Class’
We come together under the premise of gaining worldly knowledge about literature.

Reading tales of Odysseus, Polyphemus, and the goddess Athena with eyes of Azure.
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Yesterday is gone with that carefree innocence of my youth passing away.
I am mixed into the masses, just another anonymous face of a student body.
A mind that is most impressionable with ideas as malleable as intellectual clay.
With unending hours of study my clever wit tires and grows stodgy.
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