Best Certification Poems

~ Certification Anticipation ~

     Infestation
     Germination
     Mobilization

     Bloviation-Condemnation
 ...

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Thank You!...

It's Black history month, so we come to celebrate, 
all the hues of brown that made our nation great! 

From Fredrick and Harriet to...

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Same time
Same place
Different color
Of the face

Same K-12 system
Same university
Different college
Who gained 
More knowledge?
Who excelled?
Who got more hell?

Same job
Same school
Same students
Same certification
Different degrees

Who stayed 
On their...

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With software the devil possessed
They've outsmarted EPA's test
So avoid the behind
Don't inhale near the hind
Of Volkswagen's diesel “skunk” pest


Author's note:  A case for more,...

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The fleeting moments
was probably in preparation
for today
where you have been a constant thread
mixing with the chaos
to bring the calm
I never thought I would need -...

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I was nervous about my newest client.
Not every Permaculture Designer gets a contract
with the WhiteHouse.
But, when the President called,
or twittered,
for an intake interview,
I guess it...

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Applying for teacher certification
I caused one technician much consternation

My fingerprints had simply not registered
Again and again the test he administered

“Guess you could have had a...

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Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an...

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Now the feline and the masked loony coon.
They steal the deal when they enter the room.
The raccoon and the cat, rat-a-tat-tat. 
Fire station seems to...

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Quiet and listen!!! I ordered myself
Focus and watch!!! My brain coded to my cells
Ponder and wonder!!! Was the obdurate melody of my sense
But no one...

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Brilliant writers
have recommended to younger students,
to only write if they cannot live without doing so.

Elder successful icons of artistic expression,
dance,
voice,
drama,
sculptors
have similarly advised apprentices,
do not do...

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Even thought my poems is better then the average poet I would said people would not understand

How hard it was in school an especially in...

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Thanks so much for forwarding
these John Paul Lederach stories
of un-learning academic approaches
to peace mediation.

I wonder if you remembered
my ongoing certification process
for justice-restoring mediation
in complex multicultural...

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Mother-Varsity, my university
My first teacher in life's academy
Life; Survival & Adversity  are your highest degree
"Nature, Nurture, Nourish" is your motto's decree
From the womb to...

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ive said it all
yet these pages are staying blank
expression sold to silence
i wonder why i find
my muse has left my island
wipe my eyes and dry...

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