Career Prose Poetry Poems

Starting my usual job as a school counselor
but in two schools instead of one.
An improbable task. I have done it before, and it is not...

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Have life been trying to give you a hint, which you ignore or just plain resent? Maybe you feel there's something you should do only...

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Is this all?

Life is a country, spread before us at birth, its
Vistas stretching beyond the horizon, full of 
Mystery and anticipation. 

In the distance lie...

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student they are
on the wings of knowledge,
on mirthful wings of angel,
on light of inside and outside

smiling touches them purely
fresh mind, fresh eye view to the...

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They call my style old boring art 
But please tell me what they know about me? 
When I say “slam” everybody looks at me and...

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I calculate the madness and it's still incurable
What does the world want? the elements keep me miserable

I Tip-toe and gleam to salvage my goals and...

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I started my teaching career in a Chicago middle school as a sub.
Our cars were locked up so they would not be vandalized during the...

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First draft--------------------
My Darling Wife  #80A
My Darling Wife
My darling Debbie, lets us go steady. I'm going to say to you the most honest words ...

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We were class mates for 6 years.
Sat on the same bench together and did fun things.
But we had different views on life.
You looked to the...

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I remember the day when I had no plan
Face cupped in my hand looking down
Then I heard a voice saying just keeping learning
And don’t get...

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Boardroom Wars and Bar Room Fights
He twiddled with his fingers and looked up at me curiously
I am not going to sign on the dotted line...

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The sky was lit by blinding light
But, not sunlight
The panorama was painted with darting pellets
But, not of rain rivulets
The ground quivering under flitting feet
But, not...

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Rejection                        ...

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I have heard many moms repeat
"You never stop being a parent."

Sadly, I don't see or hear that quite so much from the dads,
although I know...

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The sight of this bourgeois, career politician/businessman

(A so-called liberal, no less)

Seated high on the dais at the all candidates meeting,

Looking down on his constituents.


Trying to...

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You were there for me...

After the birth of my child
When I needed time
To marvel, and rest, and adjust.

I appreciated the flowers, 
And condolences...
On the passing...

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At first, there I was in the mind of God as He made preparations for me
As I would learn later, time was sailing, but I...

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In this year 2016 the 1st week in August, I had occasion to speak with a Christian headmaster, the spiritual aspect dominated the conversation, I...

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If out of darkness comes light, then my life must be one ginormous ray of sunshine right about now. Coming out of a 14-year classroom...

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Spiritual Communion is about Agape,
about Sacred CoEmpathy
about Yin’s Love,
which is Erotic Yang fertility Love of deeply dense nutrition,
but disembodied,
implicate (David Bohm)
concave rather than convex (Buckminster...

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