Teacher Language Poems

A NOTE FROM MALCOLM

My advice is free, and time’s not billable
Try speaking French and I will soon know
Don’t claim a local or a provincial accent
It...

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Happy Birthday, Gerald Buisman. *
Thank you for your part in the story of my life. You were fundamental to some good memories.

I hope you enjoy...

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I tell you of a friend who's so fond of everything french
She didn't call her a frenchie when she saw one on a bench 

Her...

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Cunning ways brief peace in disguise
Won't ride on rollercoaster for long 
Either up or down, you get your ease 
But unreliable are their saints' tongue

Africa,...

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Q.What is your full name?
A.Abad Ur Rehman.
Q.What is your lull name?
A.Lol Balol Daryai.
Q.What should I call you?
A.Ganda Machli Wala.
Q.Where do you live?
A.I live in Johar.
Q.What...

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What Punctuation Marks

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(Dedicated to our Pens)


Commencing with colons saying,
    “Look at what follows me”:
Commas...

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shines a face from faraway past - twinkling eyes,
 softest smile, silky hair ....
 a stylish hat, gorgeous shoes, even a glittering pendant.
 so perfect...

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Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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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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To understand poetry you must read poetry
   By External Journalist

It is said that a teacher from the countryside once asked Mario Quintana:
 What...

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My esteemed Rinpoche
repeatedly impresses upon me
Our humane democratic vocation
to become an enlightened individual.

Which sounds like a polyculturing lot,
for absorbent 
co-acclimating residents and guests
of Earth's cooperative...

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My words have failed me.  
I sacrificed my name to public records and statistics, 
it never existed in Bold,
 I sacrificed my voice to...

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I remember the lineups in highschool
we all wanted to study spanish
that sexy exotic language
stirring our dreams to travel

but a selected few where taken aside
we were...

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My favorite high school teacher was Miss Constance Uren
You heard me right the first time so don't ask her name again
At first the kids were...

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on a long hike the pebble reminds me... 
to take note-that every step
is precious-not to be ignored.

Never remove a pebble from its leather hovel.
Sometimes irritation...

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