Political Teacher Poems

Aunt Mary was a small and wiry mother
of six;
four by birth
and two by informal adoption.

She sang in a small querulous voice
yet spoke boldly
filled with loving...

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(In memory of the 19 children and two adults killed by gun violence in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022…as well as the countless others...

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Recycled

I have gone through many storms. 
Some I thought would capsize the boat, 
and drown both me, 
and my beloved children.
At the first sign of...

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Speech

Free speech, 
is the power of one person, 
to say, anything they like, 
to have an opinion, 
and to have it heard, 
even if it...

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Into your arms, we raise our lovely children lost!
The innocent ones, that we raised and you created...
Killed by a soul-less madman,may his judgement 
be swift!

Forgive...

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USA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The teacher stood confused, in front of her second 
grade class.
She was now forbidden to say boys or girls.
What were they, then,,,”its”?

This is...

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Great
and small
spiritual teachers
glowingly preach
and promise disciplined pilgrim creatures
Nirvana,
Paradise,
Heaven,
Blissful Features.

A timelessly perpetual climax
no natural teacher
this side of Eden's regenerative garden
would dare speculate
we might reasonably anticipate
some great...

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Buddha is deeply listening

My esteemed teacher
kindly reminds me,

"To see the master
not as a [merely natural] human being,
but as the Buddha himself,
is the source [and resource]
of...

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My esteemed Rinpoche
repeatedly impresses upon me
Our humane democratic vocation
to become an enlightened individual.

Which sounds like a polyculturing lot,
for absorbent 
co-acclimating residents and guests
of Earth's cooperative...

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There once was a math teacher
well-versed in singing
"We have many ways to learn."

Eyes
and ears,
Touch
and feelings,
Tastes
and smells
each looking for redundant
polypathic messages
from polyphonic Others.

The math teacher
was conservative
about...

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Who is making "Kentucky School Teachers Angry"? Who is making "Any Teacher of our "Children Angry" to cause their "Failure"? Anger produces "Failure" in "Any...

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Sanders and Warren to Chicago, come see!
   Give the teachers' union your advice, for free!
'Demand more money, raise your fist -- go on...

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I ask, at what cost?

Coiled beneath the leaves, nothing is seen of his reprieve.
The viper’s warning is curtailed.

Silently masked among the decay, a wooden shelter...

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Teaching is too often modeled
as essential for colonizing WinWin (BothLeft/AndRight)
RightBrain prominent wildly naive minds.

Preaching is too often re-enacted
as necessary for domesticating students and sinners to...

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The children knew right from the start
Their teacher was born really smart
So from the get-go
They wanted to know,
"What's colder than Donald Trump's heart?"...

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