Day 23 - OctPoWriMo: The Message

The Message

Shifty-eyed and timid, he stumbled

O'er the unwelcome news he’d break.

I requested he repeat.

The Home Ec teacher

Gets top English

Classes. Kids

Get the
Shaft

Unfortunately, this poem is autobiographical. 

Today's Challenge: Write a nonet, a nine-line poem. The first has 9 syllables and each successive line becomes one syllable shorter.

Day 15 - Fighting the Urge to Vomit

 Fighting the Urge to Vomit

There was so much I wanted to tell them

I had bullet points

diagrams

Words of Wisdom

all ready to infuse

into their fertile minds

There was so much I wanted to tell them

So much they needed to know

These brand new teachers

So much about classrooms

So much about kids

So much about parents

So much about themselves

There was so much I wanted to tell them

But I had been where they were

So instead of vomiting

My entire New Teacher 101 script

I thought

               All this can be saved ‘til later

I said

              Everyone take a deep breath

              We’re going to meditate

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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