"A Grand Old Oak"

A grand old oak
makes the campus nice.
It’s leaves are green
even after August’s anti-ice.

A system of cables,
iron and cold steel,
holds up the branches.
Is this for real?

Why should a tree,
symbol of nature and life,
be altered by man
to one of stress and strife?

Is the university such a
blight?
If that’s the case,
it’s clearly not right.

Rebel from the forced lies!
Turn to Jesus!
Choose the Unaltered Tree!
Choose life!

"Progress"

I am a boy trapped within a man
I was a man with a boy’s body

Why do I digress?
  Or have I really made progress?

My inner age seems in reverse
from that of my biology

My spirit is in constant renew
While my physical self ages correct

I am both younger and older than I was yesterday;
also older and younger than you’ll find me tomorrow

Where will this lead?
  When will it end?

"Acrostic"

Apples appropriate abundant
and ample attitude
about all.

Brutality befits the best bridegroom
brandishing burning
branches to beat and batter.

Confucius claims configuration
cures colds, calamities.
Can Colbert come caress?

Do dogs doo-doo daily?
Desperation demands
dignified despotism.

Emasculate elephants
enrapture everything.
Ever eat Eskimo?

Fraudulent fiction foretells
future failure.
Forget it!

Goodness gracious
great globs of grease!
Grab a Gabel!

Hermann has high hopes.
His horse hits
hopping houseflies.

Iguanas imitating igloos.
Imagine it!
Ice over isosceles!

Justice just justifies
judicial gesticulations.
Just joking.

Krap.
Krap.
Krap.

Love lingers longer.
Lately lethal.
Ludwig’s layover.

Mention mastication,
men meander
meaningless.

Nobody notices Norm.
Nerds never net
newlyweds.

Oliver opines opinions.
Odious otters obliterate
other obstructions.

Personally, politicians
persist playfully.
Pulverize, pit-bull!

Quickly Quint!
Quit quelling queer
questions! What’s my cue?

Rose red
really reeks
repugnantly.

Saturate smelly socks!
Sausage soon!
Smell spring—Someone Esquire

Triumphant truffles trouble
traveling troubadours.
Too true!

Usually undulating upstream,
upper understanding
undoes umbrellas.

Visual verification
verily vexes
voyeur vixens.

Words welcome wealth.
Wary wayfarers worry
‘way with wit.

X-ray X-men
x-tremely x-actly!
X-istence xylophone.

Youth yearns
yesterday’s Yule.
You’ll yet utilize.

Zany zebra
zaps zero zebu.
Zooming zigzags!

"Huh?"

Endurance, strength, weakness, drink;
War is economically good and lifely savage.
Brutality befits the best bridegroom
  who brandishes burning
  branches to beat and batter
  the Brothers of the Brook.
Madness best suits those in search of freedom.
Ring bells, ring! Freedom to think and dance and ponder and sing.
Rhythm and Bounce are cousins and friends.
  Their neighbors Beat and Leap join the song and a jam session is born.
How does one extrapolate the reasons for tardiness?

"Keep It Up!"

God Himself visited Earth
  to save it from itself
  reconnect that which was broken
  restore that which was lost

What wonderful news!
  He loves us!
  Wow and wonder!
He’s not going to collect on the bill of sins we’ve racked up
He declared “Paid in full!” when we racked Him up on a tree

Run the race and don’t look back!
  Keep it up! Keep it up!