Education Chicago Poems

Ever-cheerful and optimistic
An island of sanity midst pandemic's panic
A voice of reason in a sea of shouts
   Dr. Janice Jackson, public schools CEO
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Wake up, Chicago, before it's too late
  Murders are rising at an alarming rate
Multiple car-jackings every day
  We're a criminal's paradise -- hey,...

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Dear Chicago.

Sometimes, it amazes me how a memory will flash across our minds,
and that memory will spark a prayer, a tear, or even a longing...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Little black pearl
formed from city grit 
pressurized by violence
layers of scars-a survivor.
There were no birds or trees
only concrete eggs in broken nests
harsh decades under moonlit...

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Once "City of Big Shoulders,"
 Stockyards and industrial concerns:
  A man's self-worth measured
   By muscle and energy burned.

Today the stockyards are shuttered,
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The Choice  


She was a lovely middle aged woman,
who mostly only shared her vanity with the mirror.
She is watching her weight 
having the strange...

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A Life Changing Misdial

One of my favorite poems is Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”, which I read for the first time in high school. ...

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I'm tired as I'm about to expire trying to conspire to take my education higher where to 
the world I am sire
I get tired of...

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