Short Schoolmaster Poems

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!...

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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....

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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…...

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