to get a high school diploma you must be able to read at a twelfth grade level
this was in 1952
In 1972 we were told “an eleventh grade level is good enough”.
Today reading at a ninth grade level means that you graduate.
I heard that at a seminar this morning.
Tuhada Khon Khon,
Mera Khon Pani.....
I am A Night Owl
By: Noel N. Villarosa
June 4, 2022
Staring long at the laptop
My workplace is quiet
Active and mentally tip top
I am an owl that flies at night
Night sorting and engaging that way
Was a man deep in his thinking
Working with a good employer that will stay
Energy peaks naturally in the evening
With refreshed curious eyes
I cast my shadow on a resting morning lark
I took over his time taking calls on the rise
I make a living, if not in the dark
I am alone in my room
It’s just me and the moon
If I failed to bring you where flowers bloom
At the end of shift work, I’ll talk to you too soon
Everything is going right at night
It only takes a search, analysis, and brilliant call
The right approach will make me see the light
Finding matched criteria, I can relate them all
You are much like me, I guess
We have ups and downs
But would you pity more, or we say less
If there’s nothing to offer, I’ll see you around
I will watch you in the dark while dreams run
For the only place that fits my work
I work from home, closer to my loved ones
To feel the breeze reveals another dawn to spark
Also posted on my LinkedIn account.
Before awarding you their prize,
They look at your size;
Not at how smart,
Soon, ordering you “To your feet rise”.
And watching how this tenses you up
Or keeps shaking your handed tea cup
Or your tolerance tries
Or up you blood cells dries
Or your flesh, not unlike chicken’s, fries
Next, ordering you to on them fasten your eyes
Leaving you to keep battling with all the possible ‘whys’
Before finally providing their lies!
Criteria of a kind
By a panel still far behind.
The Criteria for Heaven is not based on
Wealth
Education
Political Affiliation
Appearance
or
Status
It is base upon Obedience to
GOD
The part calls for someone not you
Welcome to the audition. Sit down
We are almost through
It is a feature film about the future
You are both short and tall Mr. Smith
How do you do that?
I'm afraid you are too medium too
That won't do
Media or mediocracy are not the issue
No race, color, creed or people needed
The scenes require a new special look
The absence of you for starters
Tell me Mr. Smith why did you apply?
Is it for pride, glory, money and fame
To be on the map? Pretty girls perhaps?
This is Hollywood
What is your story? Why did you come?
We were looking for something less you
More along the lines of silver machinery
Listen. I'm busy. My people will call yours
We'll do lunch shortly for sure or maybe not
Do you get the picture Mr. Smith?
Sorry. It's taken by a robot with connections
Electrical components are the in thing
I would show you the door
But my time is precious
You look like a smart fellow
Good day. See you again...never
Before I was after you laid before me
In the cage of my captor looks
From under from you push
Serene dreams puts
A nitch in the nook noticed
Not to the nay sayers knot
Free in freedoms space aches
breath beneath a release a lease at least no less than what it meets
Make do the make due to make true a make new
For now is allowance
And then there's endowment
May sound mind surrounded
Surpass what is confounded
Construed aptitude
Expect to accept the concept
To whom it may concern might you learn a thing or two
To bring a new unleash unto do through the few who knew but you
Because what was is of the true we will never lose
Simply I am what I can comprehend
To attend to the end and then
Start a new to renew what I knew to know now no foe shall bring folly
Nor riddle me or belittle me for chivalry is dead
Listen to your heart
A living knowing
Sets you apart
Wonder fills your mind
A gradual seeing
Sense of divine
Indulge then your soul
A certain feeling
Borne of a whole
Persuade now calm norm
A spacious longing
Spur of sure form
Seeker know the truth
A precious loving
Joy within proof
Become the sure man
A mystic dancing
Poise of grand plan
Beyond in a glimpse
A spacious finding
Surge of wise theme
Believe in your sight
A window veiling
Streams of sure light
Leon Enriquez
12 September 2014
Singapore
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Robert William Gruhn
As I grow like an unsure plant
I hope to become a giant Oak tree
It seems I do not control the moment
Some have been tramped by heavy forces
My friends have suddenly become tall
As I seek to reach them
They failed to look and to pull up
Some fall down dirtily and fall forever
In education the best I thought would succeed
In education the worst I knew would fail
But the successful is now the Hustler.
The failure is now the millionaire.
I do not know what I am not
But I do know what I am
I have heard of the power of the spirit
To give, to deny, and to withdraw
This is what I have stuck to
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