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Rote Poems - Poems about Rote


Premium Member Beyond the Ivory Tower
Soft ivory pages, crisp and new. Insulated from the world's harsh truths, Snuggled in the comfort of rote learning, it waits. Protected from challenging ideas, Camouflaged as a bastion of knowledge, Ignoring sounds of a changing world outside. Each lesson absorbed, concepts released, The slightest spark of curiosity dimmed, Minds anchored to standardised forms. Slow to evolve, the system creaks. Returning to the safety of...

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Categories: rote, children, education, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beyond Rote
If we crammed their heads with facts and dates, Ignoring sparks and curious states, Would learning ever truly take root? Children, not clay, for us to sculpt and boot. Tolerance, not rote, a lesson grand, Understanding hand in accepting hand. "Unfold" their minds, like petals in the sun, Let wonder bloom, the learning race has begun. Happiness, the compass, guiding true, Engagement's flame, where...

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Categories: rote, care, children, education, growth,
Form: Narrative



The Elite
At the front row gain a flag off, as compared to them in the back. So the life underdogged, starting by the rulers. Zig zagging through a bulk of them, maneuvered without wings. I’m gonna bonk at 15 miles. So life is bonked, trying suck all of the drops. Gotta slow down as life rotes. The pace slaps in head, hallucinate the finish line. As life...

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Categories: rote, allegory, cancer, crush, social,
Form: Free verse
I Don'T Know How To Pray
We say it, Victor kinda asked about it And it's nothing new, not a surprise The prayer God welcomes warmly Is how Jesus taught (Gospels; Matthew's) EXPLANATION: 1. Jesus's disciples asked in Mark 11:1-2, lord teach us to pray .... They were good Jews & observed feasts & sacrifices at the temple ( in Jerusalem) but why ask...

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Categories: rote, bible, jesus, jewish, mentor,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Rote
Memory records All sorts of stuff Some beyond recall A watcher sees All happenings Stores all in secret Not one thing is lost Even those hidden acts Unremembered nuances This brilliant library Buried deep within Stores all transactions Such profound secrets Shame, guilt and regrets All kept in lost archives This fabric of consciousness Vivid living experiences Woven into timeless memory Rote remembers mundane But that is just a minor bit All else is memory...

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Categories: rote, change,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rote
Turning, Merging, Braking, Swerving. Dreaming of a different life, a different place, a different time. Blinking, Blaring, Crashing, Burning. How did I get here?...

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Categories: rote, life,
Form: Free verse

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