Woman Teacher Poems

She is confused, a teacher says
Why? Because her hair is dyed three colors?
She wears goth clothes and her make up is dark
Have you spoken to...

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'My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.'
Richard C. Armitage

"Whisper, we're in church,"...

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It started with a blank canvas,
the world I should make but I am anxious.
Making fields of pretty flowers,
to the deep blue seas takes many hours.
Mountains...

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They know me, 
still,
behind my aged teacher face.
They wave to me in my car,
running wildly home from school on a 
sunny afternoon.
I smile and wave...

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Teach me, my love, how each moment with you is an entire universe,
Where you are the star, you are the sky, you are the blaze...

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I rushed into my friend’s office once not realizing she had a guest.
She said “This is Dr. Pat McClintock.”
Dr. Pat McClintock said “You are a...

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Teacher’s chair is super warm
Surprising me
She can be an icy woman
Most of the time

I had no idea her body held any heat at all
I imagine...

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I was ready to quit the counseling program
My first year had been horrible
I was the token oldie, and it had been a chore
I decide it...

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I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                 ...

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Abandon baby cries daily effortlessly for giving hugs,                 ...

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Passing gas was not acceptable when I was young
It was embarrassing, and horrible and I hid it.
It was not “lady-like” which I thought was important.

Now...

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TWYLA THARP AND 
INTERSTATE 81 

I had been watching a documentary
about a white-haired woman, a legendary
master of creative processes whose intensity
of focus was a cautionary...

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Back in the day
Teachers did not go to the bathroom
Until lunch
or after school
There was no texting
No phone calls to the office
Asking for a teacher bathroom...

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my lord
i see her walking
the cloudy day has turned sunny

my lord
i see her smiling
everything drab perks up

my lord
i see her standing
i love the simplicity of...

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Judy Clark taught me
two things
I never forgot


Once while killing
time in class
her irritation I wrought

Kicking a shoe across the
Aisle to a friend
doing same in kind

busily doing...

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