School Light Poems

There are now nooks and crannies in elementary school classrooms.
Places for children to slither and slide into
When they need a break
When they despise multiplication facts
When...

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The new gentleman’s club is rumored to be exclusive to the braggarts in town.
They have to dress up, and some of these squirrels used to...

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Whilst I ate fries, I ate lies.
A bargain made, no school

for the next day, the bargain.
No one told me tomorrow

was Saturday. I ate lies
heavily hidden...

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the students parade in all clean and pristine
squealing in delight as they spy friends
loving the idea of a new school year
dragging out seven hours later
bedraggled...

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My sister once had a dream, that was driving her crazy.
It seemed so real, but it was very faint and hazy.
She thought it was real...

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path any, what is pointed to is this
simply enter silence, stop flow of time
that God’s magnetism may fill us with bliss
and vibrant heart heeds the...

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Daylight Savings Time Ends – November 5th 2023 means...

discombobulated, harried, and lobotomized
state of body, mind, and spirit triage.

Onset of dark shadows signalling edge of night
occurs...

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The boys at the school were constipated
So the nurse lined them up and gave them cod liver oil
Some tried to escape, but she was mighty
And...

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Hot,
cooking
days and nights.
Parades in town,
dancing horses ~ clowns.
Sky lights up everywhere,
pretty colors fill the air.
Animals do not like the noise,
the loud noise hurts their sensitive...

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There was once a young soul I’ll call Jordan
He was a little on the wild side, a rebellious child
Most expected he’d someday know the warden
The...

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The ancient Greek philosopher
Diogenes of Snopé,
if he were alive today
would be thought quite dopé.

Of the school of Cynics,
it’s said he lived in a bathtub;
even fellow...

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A flamingo asked a fer-de-lance
To be his date to a high school dance.
"Oh, you don't want to go with me.
I've neither arms nor legs, you...

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if you are no fun during the school year
are you joyful during the summer?
i stare at the folded armed teacher
an angry glare on her face...

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on the bus ride home
i dream of my parents
i pass by my grade school
i make enemies with the boy sitting across from me
i contemplate the...

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The shameless art of modern sophistry
has its roots in ancient Greek philosophy
notably a school of philosophers whose only
goal was to persuade by means deceptively.
Their expertise...

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