Skills Poems

The Essence Of Teaching

Teach them how to discern and learn,
Don’t leave them helpless to crash and burn.
Teaching them just content, they learn it your way.
Teach them the process of learning today,
You give them a lifetime of learning every day.

My Coping Skills

When life is cruel or unkind
I write a poem, a song, a story or such
If this does not rejuvenate me, I take a nap
Dream in my favorite pinks, oranges and yellows

My dreams are fantastical, frolicking and fun
Alliteration peppers my thoughts upon awakening
I think I will write them down, but in moments they are gone
So, I

Pedagogical Veracity

Socrates to Plato
Emerson to Thoreau

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear
Invaluable lessons will be on display for him to feel, see, and hear

Ali to Larry
Jordan to Kobe

If the student is willing, he will do the valiant work
He would rather not be the teacher; instead, he aims to show his worth

Picasso to Warhol
James to

Do Not Forget Good Listening Skills

Start with more than one pinch of small-town Iowa mischief
Sixty-five cups of empathy
Fifty cups of understanding
Thirty cups of honesty
Stir until they are milky and comfortably pudding-like
Add a half a pound of trustworthiness
Set aside for an hour, maybe chill in the refrigerator
In a second bowl sift together
Three cups of common sense
Two cups of wonder
And a cup

11 THE LEARNING CURVE

the next few years were testing, I had to learn new skills
from the handling of a wheelchair to the sorting out of bills
to go shopping with a wheelchair, trying to navigate the aisles
some people gave us dirty looks, but some others gave us smiles

the thing I found most hard to bear, was other people's attitudes
a

Skills

Skills are born
Out of intent
Honed through practice.

A Battle of Wills and Verbal Skills

Fed up with his constant prattle 

I got into a verbal battle 

The harshest of words were spoken 

But in the end his will was broken 

My voice was clear and strong of lung

I was sharp of wit and deft of tongue 

His face grew pale and ashen gray 

Then he finally just walked away

Life skills

Teaching my son important life skills daily so he can be ready for whatever comes his way

Everyone Has A Special Talent

Everyone has a special talent
Everyone has some special skills
Nothing is eternal under the tent
Everyone is entitled to some special deals
Who are we to prejudge or judge?
Who are we to refuse to budge?
Once in a while, comes a little surprise
Most of the time, it is no good to surmise
No one is the same, no one is

Coping Skills

(Family heirloom, Persian Gharajeh rug)

Coping Skills

The world is certainly not as it should be.
Maybe it’s always been that way,
But now we know 24/7.

So we each and all cope as best we can.
For some this can be as bad as becoming a serial killer,
For others as innocuous as being addicted to exercise 
Or in my case,

God has the greatest Friendship skills

I'm not jealous of all His suffering
or His final Ascension hovering
I accept that I cannot cure on touch
or walk on water, or through walls and such

But I sometimes get the distinct feeling 
(when with people, or prayerfully kneeling)
That I wish I could get to know others--
(family, friends, neighbors, sisters and brothers)

--The way God does, completely,

Carapace

A carapace of courage
Lies buried in the hills.
A library of wisdom
Stocked with empty pages,
Erased for all the ages.
A husk of special skills
And verbal vitality
Dad, juggernaut at rest.

Skills

There's nothing you can get done in life without

                     Knowing mastery of how well to acquire abilities and

                 

Emptied Skills

No talk, no walk,
No laws, no clause,
That's her way of dreaming.
Just the silence between the journey,
The peace connecting two broken pieces of heart,
Was the making of the bro sis art.
Their relationship was an art,
Not just his and hers, but even those who aren't related by blood.
He lauded her through all the thick and thin,
He gained

Sacred Communion Skills

I try not to speak
ahead of feeling certain
I have something of health value
to wealth contribute
in this our neuro-sensory Commons.

Yet, more curiously significant
for our cooperative longterm resilience
as an EarthTribe communing species

I hope to deeply
and widely listen
for ambiguous
paradoxical
uncomfortably nuanced
and complex emergent feelings
becoming anxious anticipations
and creatively stressed 
polycultural examinations
polytheistic aspirations

Inspirations 
we each
and all together
have complex relationships
for healthy win/win

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