Short Mentored Poems

For hundreds of Moons
Save all the Summers,
You engaged young minds
One youth at a time
Teaching new students.

But that’s not all,
You mentored young
Teachers, with pride.
For many years.

Excellence,
Scholarship,
Legacy.

And now,
Retired.

Thanks!...

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When we Shall Be New
By David J Walker

Of this monastic island earth
we share in the birth of each
evolution of tomorrow 
embracing the diverse versions
of the same things 
we have known all along
We came
We learned
We left
And in the coming 
Mentored dawn
We shall be new
We will be gone...

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Consider the practice of pedagogy.
Sounds less like a noble profession,
And more like a pervert’s kinky fetish,
A groomer’s form of fieldcraft.
Socrates taught Plato,
Just as Shumann mentored Brahms.
Einstein tutored Oppenheimer,
And so inspired those bombs.
When a student has mastered a subject, 
Does the teacher proclaim it success?
Or is there regret in awareness
Of the genie set loose on the world?
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Another day of mystery
Has now come to its end
How will we field the loss
Of our hero and our friend

Life is very fragile
It comes with its ups and downs
Enjoy each moment you are given
Even when it makes you frown

So many he has mentored
So much that he did gain
So many that he did help
With his fortune and his fame

Now we say good bye
We now shall bid adieu
The world will miss you Kobe Bryant
And your beautiful daughter to...

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