Changes

Foggy haze
causes some road delays.
Summer waves goodbye as fall arrives.

Reluctant children trudge back to school and new lives
Eager first graders will soon be counting by fives.
Older students search for last year’s friends.
 
The student horde descends
and attends.


Fun vacation days
will soon become memories
or a backward gaze.
The teachers hope to implant
the love of learning  in all.


Today is the opening phase
of educational plan that finds
a path to flexible minds
in new exciting and enticing ways.

The good teacher hopes the change pays 
in most significant rewinds
of the student’s  study habits and stays.
Lessons  will no longer be called grinds.

Children who merely nibble and graze
at lesson their teacher assigns
will sooner or later fall on behinds
and be reasons teachers lose their minds.
The good students are why she stays.




For Jared’s contest 



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Copyright © | Year Posted 2010


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Date: 9/30/2010 6:53:00 PM
Joyce, you did wonderfully with the challenge. I just love it!
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Date: 9/30/2010 4:27:00 PM
Great use of all three forms and quite a witty message, Joyce. Good luck in Jared's contest. Best to you, Diane
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Date: 9/30/2010 1:14:00 PM
An excellent write on kids going back to school. I always hated when the boys had to go back to school. It was nice to have them around home and do things with them. Thank you for all your comments. God Bless Phyl
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Date: 9/30/2010 9:48:00 AM
What an outstanding way to enjoy a day. I am so happy to be able to read the excellent poetry here at PoetrySoup today. Hope you are enjoying your day and finding much inspiration along the way Joyce. The best to you in the contest. Love, Carol
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Date: 9/30/2010 5:22:00 AM
I always wondered what could be done to help that student that had a learning disability.. I would see the frustration, disappointment, hurt, humiliation, and sadness of these children..There is some help for them now but the schools are so far behind in putting into practice the proper way to help these children...I am glad that you wrote this one and glad that I read it..Good luck in the contest...Reads like a winner..Sara
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Date: 9/29/2010 8:20:00 PM
a good entry for Jared's contest, good luck, enjoyed your write..P.D.
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Date: 9/29/2010 3:07:00 PM
Jared will have a difficult time with judging because of the many wonderful entries in his Contest, Joyce..yours been one of them! Wishing you good luck..Love, Audrey
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