Day 31 - OctPoWriMo 2013: Commencement Ceremonies

 This is the last day for OctPoWriMo 2013. Today's prompt asked us to think about endings and beginnings.

Commencement Ceremonies

Ceremonies to send grads forth

Forth to new beginnings, new lives

Lives that cast their futures

Futures with no end to possibilities

Possibilities that fulfill destinies

Destinies that complete

Complete and renew the cycle of life

Day 30 - OctPoWriMo 2013: Here I Am

Today's prompt asked us to showcase a social issue that is important to us. My observation of too many preoccupied parents missing their opportunity to communicate with their kids is the catalyst for this poem.

Here I Am

Shut the damn phone

Mom-my

Hang up and drive

Dad-dy

Talk to me

                How was my day

                     Scary, humiliating

                What did I learn

                     Meanness rules

                Do I have homework

                     A bully took it

                How is my friend

                     Miserable, too

Talk to me

Look at me

Show me you know

I am here

Shut the damn phone

Day 29 - OctPoWriMo 2013: Epitaph for a Teacher

 Today's prompt called for an Epitaph Poem. An epitaph poem is a tasteful summarization of the life of a person.

Epitaph for a Teacher Here lies a teacher Beloved and true She did her best Touching all she knew She taught us English History, math Lead us on a Righteous path Of learning And becoming more Outgrowing  ourselves As we were before So watch out, world This is your cue Hearts full, heads up We’re comin’ through Thanks to teachers For a life of giving Their inspiration Keeps us living