Teacher Environment Poems

'My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.'
Richard C. Armitage

"Whisper, we're in church,"...

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See them walking down the street in droves with books tucked underneath their arms making long strides and wide steps walking in clusters to seal...

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Nature is a symphony of sounds
The rustle of leaves, the chirp of birds
The roar of waves, the whisper of wind
The crackle of fire, the splash...

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I
The prose & prosaic lives pursuing career
From apartheid in Africa to US freedoms (1983)
Poets voices muted, too much hunger
The luxury of democracy, enduring systems
Of dispossession,...

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Oh Africa
Many nations envy you for your productivity
Blessed sons and daughters of talents and ability
You've shaken the world with powerful potential
Your sons have led those...

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Issued paper fibers mirror those of the straw bale,
The waters of the great canal through the morning sail.

In spite Venezia was tied, the chairlift was...

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Cornish pumps
were topic
they stayed on topic till
completion
the eyes of the world are
on me to perform
one spoke
it inspires me to be more
eager to sugceed
we have frustrated...

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Ghost Of Tsali Comes

Lost in mist and maze
Ghost of Tsali in the corn
River water runs

Colors of fall alive
“Til moon replaces sun
That’s when Tsali comes 

Corn...

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Tensions between professional teacher
or theological preacher
and therapeutic integrity
are as old as cultural wars
between knowing scientific methods
and feeling artistic expressions

InBetween noetic purpose
of LeftBrain thinking
and deep poetic...

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Big Job 

There's a big job breaking out
Time for smelling salts and focus
There is no magic wand this time
No top-hat hocus pocus 

Time to wheel...

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A field trip to the new History Museum sounded like fun.
We boarded the bus as soon as the school day had begun.
I was excited, thinking...

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Daddy why are those cars backed up for miles
To get a test for Corona Virus in little vile

Mommy what are all those cars around the...

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Knowing not from what to start
the ache roaming into my heart just a part.

A vocation going beyond the call of duty
teaching in corona time EFL...

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I was a Taoist
philosophically and spiritually
metaphysically and physically
long before my Public Administration classes.

Which may be poignantly of interest
because the original Taoist teacher,
LaoTse,
taught sensory experiences
of Yang-testosterone...

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Great
and small
spiritual teachers
glowingly preach
and promise disciplined pilgrim creatures
Nirvana,
Paradise,
Heaven,
Blissful Features.

A timelessly perpetual climax
no natural teacher
this side of Eden's regenerative garden
would dare speculate
we might reasonably anticipate
some great...

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