Short Normed Poems

Testing testing testing
Ten days of testing.
These aren't even nationally normed tests!
They are state tests!
What a horrible ending for our students

They will not want to return
After Memorial Day weekend
Or After the summer break
or maybe ever again...

Will their parents force them to come back
after this four-day weekend
For testing testing testing testing testing testing?
I wouldn’t....

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She drops from the sky when the right clouds are formed.
There is no announcement, not a sound of an angel’s horn.
She arrives with her snow bear, he is Artic normed.
They are fresh every time, both newly born.

We know she comes on days of the Northern lights.
She comes in the night, but we do not see her until day. 
When she arrives, Iceland’s nature turns up her brights.
We rarely see her in our life time, so enjoy her okay?...

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