School Sijo Poems

My exam is over and everyone is plugged in on phones
earbuds in, except for him, who sleeps, slumped on desk, bag in front
with me the...

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The big yellow bus has disgorged
          it's final school student;
the driver searches empty seats
  ...

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A crawling held a walled frame as passer-by beheld too
A football helmet and high school pennant encased against a wall
Tapestry of day shades painted wall...

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I detested poetry at school; it was dull and boring,
Everything changed when my husband got cancer, I began to write …
This year I’ve published my...

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MONTH NINE

September was month seven in the early Roman calendar
But was ninth after two more months that Julius Caesar added
Starting school is timely to understand...

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Two larks fight circling the dangling banana flowers
The old uncle Harold with the palm on the chin looks at and smiles
The children walking to their...

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CERTIFIED CURSE’S ASSISTANT 
(with all due respect to Ms. Jane and Ms. LaNette---the only two deities I pray to.  And I 
ain’t telling you...

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His eyes and heart fill with angst of growing old, going to pre-school
The thought of learning excites him so, he sharpens up his manners
Spills his...

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you young, know it alls, are going to get this if it kills me;
you will chew it up and spit it out ‘til you know...

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