Docent Poems - Poems about Docent

...The Docent David J Walker So this is heaven I said to the no-name frame Of a departed loved one guide On a drive-by tour of a place That can only be seen in Dreams… for now He smiled B......Read the rest...

...While viewing a painting I liked by Paul Klee, A docent-in-training came over to me. Can I ask you some questions, if you wouldn’t mind, About “Old Married Couple,” as she’d been assigned. I to......Read the rest...

...Duet between Omodele Oluwabunmi and Wems Henry Temmy speaks... cautiously OmO Mother, I forget not thy words When I was a score and half a dozen “My daughter, let your heart hold my teaching "......Read the rest...

...I’ve been working since I was twelve years old, But my first on-the-books job Was as a sailor in the US Navy, Gunners Mate. Six years and three Westpac deployments. Fifty months of sea duty Cha......Read the rest...

...They fired all the docents In Chicago. This is why: They’re mostly old white women, Though they’re well-informed and spry. They train for months and volunteer; That’s right - they earn no pay,......Read the rest...

...Not many notice I am in drag. I was complicated, what with the codes, and the hidden secrets of last suppers. In my day you had to be circumspect, my works were only for a select few like you......Read the rest...

...Museums are quiet except For crackling parquet floors, Wooden squares, a game board: Checkers or maybe chess Of various right angle, grain striations. Parallel to paintings in oil, red lines ......Read the rest...

...A docent leads a group around To highlight what’s on view With information most Museum-goers never knew. If he or she’s a good one, Your attention will be held And perhaps to more exhibits Y......Read the rest...

...A small collection Working on a small poetry connection There is no haste a poem a day keeps the mind focused And not drown in self-pity. It is needed good laughter, the fun of a joke That ca......Read the rest...

...I'll remember the museums And the fine historic homes. There's been mention of both music And parade within my poems. But it really is the people That will stick inside my brain, For connecti......Read the rest...

... Where is that daunting monster Boogie man in life’s shadow Master mentor and concierge Whose touch I’ve come to know To you I’ll waste no breath Beauty is not long and septic My dau......Read the rest...

...WHOLE AGAIN While young on the ladder of growth, I boarded a similar covenant ship; Having summoned the great Teacher, And sworn a thick fealty – hinged on An immutable decision to pave way For......Read the rest...

...cat layin' in the sunbeam catching the ease - that falls through the stream jus' warmin' up to the notion of fillin' in for the leisure docent - life, now this is what it means © Goode Guy 2012-10-......Read the rest...

...The Docent at the Zoo The docent in the peach cloche hat leads the rest of us around the rhino into better light. She leads us to the guardrail at the supper hour to watch the keeper ......Read the rest...

...Last name here, First step there, only one allay... Vestige sagacity, flaxen ochroid genes skitter down, Diddle drizzled dints to acquiesce an ugly axis, Whet of whiled grime, tips on me thus to ......Read the rest...