Teachers can't afford to live there
So parents of student are offering space
We've seen this scenario before
Hearken back to Colonial days*
But back then there were no taxes
Parents paid teachers out-of-pocket
The message from high-tax California
~ Inflation's taken off like a rocket
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*Read the short story, 'The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow,' about Ichabod Crane, the itinerant
schoolmaster, who took room and board
in the homes of the communities he served.
Categories:
schoolmaster, history, money, parents, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
in school halls the length of the land
after the final bell, by the thousand
taken by some strict schoolmaster
who is determined they will go faster
the perfect poem is being created
but teachers are obviously not elated
because these poems are a punishment
a system designed as a detriment
to pupils who would have otherwise
fooled and played up in disguise
time is what is taken from them
in the form of after hours detention.
these perfect poems in the form of lines
written out (usually) one hundred times
or as many times possible in the space
of sixty minutes that they must face
lines normally befitting the offence
where total denial was the stock defence
lines guaranteed to make arms ache
eyelids heavy but must..stay..awake
line upon line upon line the same
till only a few more blanks remain
“I must not, will not, can not too”
lines upon a page that rhyme true.
23.4.2011
Categories:
schoolmaster, poems, school,
Form: Rhyme
"The Silent Speakeasy"
she guevara she
sashay speakeasy
monotone in neon poetry
notes not belonging
to diatonic scale of key
chromatic passenger a new story
she guevara she
Anagrams
rebellious
sudoku kings and queens
silent
dusty
schoolmaster (take off your te)
sedate
the eyes
bluest
glare
glean
she guevara she
the silent speak easy
(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)
“Golden Years” / Bowie
https://youtu.be/HRD0ghlFSgk
key, 9
Categories:
schoolmaster, cool, crazy, fun,
Form: Free verse
What an earthly disaster
The rivers are red
The water keeps on rising
Trinidad and Tobago under water
Politician and Ministers these are your sons and daughters
Mankind need aid and helicopter to reach them faster
Cities are submerging
People are uniting
Humanity is surfacing
You can work much faster
After all you are the master
Why not take on the role of the nation pastor
Be the leader and wear the hat of a dedicated schoolmaster.
Categories:
schoolmaster, dedication, fear, water, weather,
Form: Free verse
Young, we started life together but fate forked us separate ways:
Some folks continued while others dropped out at the elementary.
On and on we were done with the competitions of the basic days;
Andrew became a schoolmaster and Aggrey a sly entrepreneur,
Augustine became a man of science treating and mending the sick.
And I became a tottering tinkerer of prose and a weaver of rhymes.
I still wish to know what became of the boys we called Peter and Dick…
Categories:
schoolmaster, books, career, life,
Form: Verse
I'm not a preachy schoolmaster
Armed with various pens and a duster;
And I'm not the Almighty to dictate
About wrong and right in human state,
But this I can tell with ample ease:
That no man has a license to do whatever they please!
Categories:
schoolmaster, life
Form: Rhyme
The peacock with spread-out plume,
Dances to Nature's tune,
The sun's fadeless glow,
The monsoon's rainbow,
Isn't our Nature,
Very spectacular?
The preaches of the priests,
They themselves don't practice!
The teachers teach,
A mere printed speech!
Mother Nature expresses,
What she really is!
Nature is wiser than the wisest----
Of the Nobel-laureates.
Read no books,
Experience how Nature looks!
She is a better teacher,
Than a priest or a schoolmaster!!
(In Indian subcontinent the
verb 'preach' is many a times
used as 'noun'.)
Categories:
schoolmaster, education, inspirational, introspection, nature,
Form: I do not know?
The peacock with spread-out plume,
Dances to Nature's tune,
The sun's fadeless glow,
The monsoon's rainbow,
Isn't our Nature,
Very spectacular?
The preaches of the priests,
They themselves don't practice!
The teachers teach,
A mere printed speech!
Mother Nature expresses,
What she really is!
Nature is wiser than the wisest----
Of the Nobel-laureates.
Read no books,
Experience how Nature looks!
She is a better teacher,
Than a priest or a schoolmaster!!
(In Indian subcontinent the
verb 'preach' is many a times
used as 'noun'.)
Categories:
schoolmaster, education, nature, philosophy, song-nature,
Form: I do not know?