We at WatchTheYard have scoured the internet to find some of our favorite poems by Deltas about their love for Delta Sigma Theta.
These poems can be used at chapter events, speeches, informationals, probates and even at yard or step shows!
Click on the arrows bellow to check out our gallery of poems!
Violets
Like Deltas, Violets must be individually selected
You cannot grab a handful without damaging some of them. They cannot be roughly picked or picked in a hurry.
Like Deltas, the Violet is not the kind of flower that Shows off its fullest beauty standing alone, but is Naturally gregarious and looks best in natural clusters.
However, like Deltas, the Violet can stand alone and Still reflect beauty.
Like Deltas, despite the violet’s that has passed its Allotted time for blooming retains the dignity and coloration That bespeaks its exclusive culture.
– Soror Marie Johnson (Hartford Alumnae Chapter)
One True Delta
A woman of love, peace, and happiness
With a passionate, burning dream
To become one of the women
Who wears the Crimson and Cream
Her heart, like the elephant
Is as strong as can be
While, like the pyramid, she has three sides
One side for them, one side for you, and always one side for me
Her love for DST
Was evident from the start
When asked why be a Delta?
She said, “It’s just in my heart!”
With the wind to her back
And God’s presence there just the same
Here dream reached reality
And a Delta she became
So she will wear the Crimson and Cream
And it will be there to stay
Because she will be “One True Delta”
Until her last dying day
– Jumond Greene
The Delta Woman
Lovely creature
Hand made by God
Smooth-spoken woman
Modeling and serving
She is conspicuous as a growing seed
She is solid as a rock
She is as wayfaring as an ant
She stirs, serves, and hastes on.
Lovely creature
Hand-made by God
Smooth-spoken woman
Constant and valiant
Come wind, come rain
Comes no discouragement
She is relentless
Her vowed intent
She is a strong woman!
Lovely creature
Hand-made by God
Smooth-spoken woman
No task will she flee
This is right, for you see,
She is a Delta!
Lovely creature
Hand-made by God
Smooth-spoken woman
No hobglobin nor foul fiend
Can daunt her fine spirit.
So, she labors night and day;
Being ever true to herself,
Being ever true to Delta!
-Unknown
Distinguished
Distinctive, devoted, delightful, dedicated
women of distinction,
carrying themselves proud yet humble
as the young girl is surrounded by the elders,
she gazes at these…
women of distinction,
dreaming that someday
she could be like them too
honored, revered,
cherished and loved,
yet with all the love and honoring they receive
they carry themselves with more humility than you and me
those are the women of distinction
they pass through a crowd and stand out
only because they know what it is to live with and without
they know what it is to work hard without recognition
as they rippened on the tree and their flowers bloomed
they hung gently from the tree
suddenly to be noticed by you and me
because that is not what they’re all about
but because you can’t ignore the doctors, the lawyers,
the dreamers who live the dream
the aspiring women who created hope in us
the women who would not stay on the back of the bus
the warriors when no one else would fight
the leaders when few wanted to follow
This is to say thanks to those who made it possible
for me to be here today,
living my dream among the crop as the cream.
– Paula Marshall
The Torch
darkness once ruled our world
lost and alone in this infinite wilderness
we could not find our way
until we saw the light.
there was no one around to guide us
no one to hold our hands
our vision and our soul stained with ignorance
until we saw the light.
then you appeared
providing your love and guidance
lighting for us the torch –
ending our voyage of darkness
leading us to the eternal delta light
– By Soror Lia (Theta Alpha – Spring 1996/ Chicago Alumnae Chapter)
You Are My Sister
A sister
lends an ear
chastises, with love, when needed
understands, when others fail to
doesn’t hastily judge
YOU ARE MY SISTER
A sister
agrees, disagrees as well
wipes a tear, sheds one too
but love prevails and abides in the end
YOU ARE MY SISTER
A sister
supports you despite your shortcomings
can apologize for her inadequacies –
most importantly a sister forgives
and gives love, which is the greater of these
yes,
YOU ARE MY SISTER
By Soror Rachelle Guillory
Theta Psi – Spring 1984
Inglewood Alumnae Chapter
Delta
Long ago and far away
Twenty-two began a brand new day.
They wanted more than just a social life
They desired to be more than just a wife.
These twenty-two had a larger vision
And that soon caused them great division.
Some went left, but most went Right
And strove to reach a higher light.
They wanted to make a better place
And give their children a broader space
To expand their minds and their hearts
And give to the world the best parts
Of being Intelligent, Female, and Black.
These twenty-two started the forward motion
But theirs was just the tip of this Delta notion
They gave the foundation and an example to follow
They made it strong and solid, not hollow.
Their legacy remains as a directional arrow
And the time is now to release the sparrow
To fly free and soar to heights unknown
But she must never travel alone.
Along with her sisters the job gets done.
Along with her SORORS the battle is
Won.
By Soror Valerie L. Thomas