School Carpe Diem Poems

Some parents insist,
And some parents resist,
In sending their children to the school of hard Knocks.
Before they start throwing rocks.

There is no doubt that both sets...

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August Promise

Every year I say, come August and I will go to Norway
but every you’re the flight ticket goes up, when mulling this over
it is...

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Death and taxes 
End of times
Life as we know it
Different today thanks to the Corona Virus

New growth all around me
I work in a grade school
Where...

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It was a Thursday afternoon, 
and Katie was in school.
The teacher droned and droned and droned 
about a number rule.

But math was not on Katie's...

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Resting it ever-so-gently on her
            shoulder, the young girl twirled
    ...

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A month ago I sat in class
in a New England School for boys
Now, I'm in a bomber group
Adjusting to the noise

I made plans for Harvard
A...

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Standing tough, no matter the outcome. Sister Jean's 98, good to be backed and a school like Loyola Chicago, well they got some talented players,...

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I must have fallen asleep
 somewhere in the fifties, sixties, and seventies as well.
My father fought the War to end all wars
 it didn't and...

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A Night On A Wharf

The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly...

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A note for you, 
    dear reader.
My writing is not always traditional, 
   not iambic pentameter as taught in school.
As...

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That awkward boy in the corner.
He walks oblivious through the school halls,
His arms are crossed in front of him like a shield,
A shield to block...

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Carpe Diem you said 
And I ponder that line as I sit here in bed 
Seize the day; don’t stop ‘til you’re dead 
Don’t fight...

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we're more than just a face behind the counter who says "can i help you please?" 
and our vocabulary is not just limited to "do...

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I can't pin point when it started, where everything went wrong and I got left behind discarded, it might have started back in the day,...

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Broken,beaten,blind and lost
All but a spark of hope left to keep warm
But dig and claw on bruised muscles, on broken limbs
Until the light day fills...

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