Best Professors Poems

Some people are of the belief, that teacher come from one place
From a school or university, with degrees all over the wall
Know great big fancy words, recites Shakespeare
With IQ's a mile high, that would put most to a disgrace
When in reality, have no common sense...

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I.
You hear the most vile garbage
come from young people’s mouths these days,
that America is evil,
it does not deserve to be saved.
The fact they’re not shot in the streets
means at least we do free speech right,
but to see them hating their freedom
is a reprehensible sight.
There are...

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Limerick: Once Professors of Philosophy

Once Professors of Philosophy
Came together to solve human folly
Each defended his birth
In his school of thought’s worth
So with fisticuffs they split hairs to flee!

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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Like a crowd of Roman folk, 
they've collected in the rise of 
chairs and desks for the day, 
to approve and disapprove.  

Ones kept a gape to his mouth 
peering into a bar of light on the ceiling; 
the turkey student. 

Another leans her...

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The professor kept his cats secret because he was a man.
He had been told that cats were women’s pets by cousin Fran.
She was completely off her rocker, as crazy as a loon.
Still he was embarrassed when I saw all of them yesterday at noon....

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III.
Then there is their favorite target,
the faceless foe they call ‘the rich,’
who they claim keep everyone down,
the academics so love to .
They sat they get rich off our backs,
but they’re not talking subsidies,
they seem to think those people’s wealth
was stolen…it seems strange to me.
What did...

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II.
Then there are all the attitudes
you see taken up against men,
how the professors always seem
to do nothing but demonize them,
that we’ve done nothing for centuries
but scheme to ‘keep the women down!’
The great boogeyman ‘patriarchy’
must always be put in the ground.
But a simple look at history
renders...

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IV.
And when they speak of America
it’s a sputtering wall of hate,
the great country that shelters them
they can never appreciate.
They point to all its past mistakes,
taken out of context of time,
ignore others who did much, much worse,
try to make us ‘uniquely’ malign.
Forgetting that we fought those...

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PROFESSOR POETS

These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emotion as well as meaning.



Professor Poets
by Michael R. Burch

Professor poets remind me of drones
chasing the...

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POEMS FOR POETS IV

PROFESSOR POETS

These are poems about professor poets and other wanna-be “intellectuals” who miss the main point of real poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emotion as well as meaning.

Professor Poets
by Michael R. Burch 
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I got a text from one of my professors yesterday saying, ‘Please stop by my office at 6 pm tomorrow.’ It didn’t say why. This was the first day after November recess, had I missed something? That night, I’d gone through the syllabus, checking every...

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I posted another short story (pieces in this poetry section have to be brief).
I'm just a wordie-birdie, I suppose *shrug*

It's called "Old designs." About a dinner kicking off the 2022-23 university year.

here's the URL:
https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/old_designs_10681...

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I had lunch with Randy, between classes today. It was a perfect day. The sky was an infinite, capri blue, the wind was stirring the environment, clouds were wispy and on high - in the fast lane where they could rush along - and birds...

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When a class is boring, the air can feel close and rebreathed - not a comfortable feeling for a COVID child. When the class is finally over, it’s like you’ve escaped something.

Did you know an hour has 60 minutes because ancient Babylonians used a seximal...

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