GreekChat.com Forums  

Go Back   GreekChat.com Forums > GLO Specific Forums > Alpha > Alpha Phi Alpha


Register Now for FREE!
Join GreekChat.com, The Fraternity & Sorority Greek Chat Network. To sign up for your FREE account INSTANTLY fill out the form below!

Username: Password: Confirm Password: E-Mail: Confirm E-Mail:
 
Image Verification
Please enter the six letters or digits that appear in the image opposite.

  I agree to forum rules 

» GC Stats
Members: 325,126
Threads: 115,503
Posts: 2,196,057
Welcome to our newest member, babobygooglet93
» Online Users: 940
0 members and 940 guests
No Members online
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 10-02-2003, 01:32 PM
TonyB06 TonyB06 is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Looking for freedom in an unfree world...
Posts: 4,215
What Poems Helped You Make It?

Think back to your pledging days (or Intake if that was your entry) what was your favorite POEM? What inspired you most when the night was dark and the "situation" seemed most dim? During the terrifying, challenging journey toward Alpha, the choices were numerous "The House of Alpha" "Invictus" "The Man Who Thinks He Can" among others.

My favorite was Kipling's "If." I'd learned it years earlier as a child because I had to memorize and recite it for a church program. Not only did knowing it come in handy while pledging, its words were, and continue to be, a source of inspiration.

Bruhs? SistaFriends holla if you hear me on this...
__________________
For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.
~ Luke 19:10
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 10-04-2003, 01:13 AM
The Original Ape The Original Ape is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: jungle ,oh., usa
Posts: 1,605
Send a message via Yahoo to The Original Ape
Cool Wasn't nuttin' like...

INVICTUS! Cause YOU KNOW we was all "black as a pit, from pole to pole!"
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 10-05-2003, 09:31 PM
blackwatch06 blackwatch06 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 26
Exclamation It would get us "in trouble"....

But I really loved "He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother", Bruh style.

My favorite lines were "...Each day of my life, I'll have blue skies 'cause I'm an Alpha (yes!!!!) from here on out!!!"

and

"...Even in cities of population 2, I'll even have a brother there!!!"

Just makes me wanna ....... all over again.

Blackwatch!!!!!!

Last edited by blackwatch06; 10-05-2003 at 09:38 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 10-06-2003, 09:42 AM
TonyB06 TonyB06 is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Looking for freedom in an unfree world...
Posts: 4,215
----------------
Blackwatch wrote:
Just makes me wanna ....... all over again.
----------------


Bruh, I love Alpha poetry too (much of it recited with, shall we say "intense motivation") but ain't nuthin in the world that would make me wanna.....all over again.


"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud,
but under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody but unbowed...."
__________________
For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.
~ Luke 19:10
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 10-06-2003, 12:16 PM
The Original Ape The Original Ape is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: jungle ,oh., usa
Posts: 1,605
Send a message via Yahoo to The Original Ape
Cool Anotha one

is TEST OF A MAN.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 10-06-2003, 02:17 PM
sphinxpoet sphinxpoet is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Pyramids
Posts: 1,097
Cleary it is where "Goodwill is the Monarch of this HOUSE!"

House of Alpha
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 11-24-2003, 05:49 PM
jyhad1906 jyhad1906 is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 59
invictus and If
these two poems has carried me through some trying times during and after pledging. I got my son learning them now




jyhad
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 11-24-2003, 06:45 PM
highpriest06 highpriest06 is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Phoenix
Posts: 2
Without a doubt, I'd say

If and Test of a Man. I knew a little of If while in high school and learned the entire poem just before I started college. A copy of it and Invictus and Test of a Man have been in my home or office longer than I can remember.
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 01-21-2004, 10:58 AM
ARTIC-U-LATE ARTIC-U-LATE is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 227
Exclamation

"Test of A Man"

My favorite line is "...with his head held high, Bleeding, Bruised, and Pale, is the man who will win..."

or

"To Be An Alphaman"

The part about "It calls for a lasting brotherhood. A word sometimes used in vain. It means a lasting devotion, not anticipation of personal gain."

As said earlier by another bruh, I LOVE ALPHA, but i will never do anything like that again.
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 01-22-2004, 10:07 AM
BONES06 BONES06 is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 8
What Poems Helped You Make It?

"If" definitely helped me make it ..... and it helps me in several instance still till this day.
Reply With Quote
  #11  
Old 06-11-2004, 03:04 AM
WrenSpr04KPsiK WrenSpr04KPsiK is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Athens, Georgia
Posts: 15
Send a message via AIM to WrenSpr04KPsiK Send a message via Yahoo to WrenSpr04KPsiK
I am not a member of the House of Alpha, but I felt compelled to respond to this thread.....

No doubt about this....

For me, it was all about "Am I My Brother's Keeper" and "Invictus".

What stood out from Am I My Brother's Keeper--
"We are as one, all for one, one for all--or none" and Invictus-- "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old 06-29-2004, 04:02 PM
bluethunder bluethunder is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 261
this takes me b-a-c-k!

when i pledged, the SIGMA poem "I am My Sister's Keeper" kept me inspired and reminded me of what the SIGMA is really all about: "...What she does, I do. What she knows, I know."

also, i have been in the bond for nearly four years and the song that still touches my heart is the one we sand the night my line came out:

"knew that i would live, knew that i would surely die, only to see the rhoyal blue light, and the golden SIGMA sun, shining bright..."
__________________
"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."-Gandhi
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old 06-29-2004, 04:56 PM
NinjaPoodle NinjaPoodle is offline
Super Moderator
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: On the beach. Well....not really but near it. :0)
Posts: 13,535
Re: this takes me b-a-c-k!

Quote:
Originally posted by bluethunder
when i pledged, the SIGMA poem "I am My Sister's Keeper" kept me inspired and reminded me of what the SIGMA is really all about: "...What she does, I do. What she knows, I know."

also, i have been in the bond for nearly four years and the song that still touches my heart is the one we sand the night my line came out:

"knew that i would live, knew that i would surely die, only to see the rhoyal blue light, and the golden SIGMA sun, shining bright..."
EEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYIIIIIPPPPP!
__________________
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. ** Greater Service, Greater Progress
Since 1922
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old 07-01-2004, 03:14 PM
PRHOTOTYPE PRHOTOTYPE is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: DALLAS TEXAS
Posts: 13
CO-SIGN

Quote:
Originally posted by bluethunder
when i pledged, the SIGMA poem "I am My Sister's Keeper" kept me inspired and reminded me of what the SIGMA is really all about: "...What she does, I do. What she knows, I know."


IF she can not do it neither can I!!!!!
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old 07-02-2004, 02:11 AM
therock#4 therock#4 is offline
GreekChat Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 12
Send a message via AIM to therock#4
It would have to be "If" by Rudyard Kipling, "If you can keep your head when about you Are losing theirs blaming it on you..." this was nothing but the truth!!!! And of course, House of ALPHA, my favorite!


Can anyone still say "Invictus" by the time a match burns out???
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off




All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:58 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.