That Canteen Guy
Just a few days in, college felt new,
Chilling in the canteen with my unusual crew.
I saw a guy feeding pups with care,
And told my friend, “Yaar, ese bhi log hote hai.. it's rare!”
He was just another face,
A guy with a gentle grace.
We laughed it off and moved on from the scene,
Not knowing what that moment
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Categories:
teachers day, change, chicago, dedication, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Because of a Teacher
Because he had a teacher
He came to school so proud
Each new shoe he lay
confidently on the ground
Because she had a teacher
Her hair looked oh so nice
For picture day that year
Her ponytail-precise
Because they had a teacher
They lay safe upon their bed
Not a worry they will feel
Inside their little head
Because she had a teacher
She learned
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Categories:
teachers day, education, encouraging, school, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
I’m a nobody, until
I’m just a cackling controller
(sit straight, listen, stop talking)
Until I stop to look into your eyes
It’s the wonder in them which makes me a teacher
I’m just a watching monitor
(settle down, take your things, write neatly)
Until I stop and pay attention to your work
It’s the magic in your hands that make me a teacher
I’m
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Categories:
teachers day, children, emotions, innocence, kindergarten,
Form: Free verse
The Mime Learns to Speak
In a room stitched with silence,
she stands—face painted, lips sealed—
mirroring worlds with invisible walls,
a language of gestures no one translates.
Here, speech is a fragile rebellion.
Her fingers sculpt stories midair,
but the crowd wants laughter without edges,
pantomime without questions.
She remembers classrooms—
words trapped in chalk dust,
voices pressing her into corners
too tight for dreams to unfold.
But tonight, her throat
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Categories:
teachers day, anxiety, art, growing up,
Form: Free verse
My Teacher Is The Light Of My Life
My Teacher Is The Light Of My Life
Birds sing sweetly in the morning
The sky is clear without clouds and blue
My teacher came riding a bicycle
Bring useful knowledge
For our beloved ones
My teacher gave me a role model
Without tiredness or time
The light of your lamp will always live
Illuminates
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Categories:
teachers day, appreciation, children, middle school,
Form: Free verse
CHARTING THROUGH CELESTIAL WATERS
Oaring through the vast ocean of knowledge,
Tiding through currents with courage,
Diving deep to find pearls of wisdom,
Guiding with a prism through the kingdom.
Patience woven in each fabric,
Kindness poured in noble tactic.
Teachings unlock closed door,
Musings reveal so much more.
In the era of Google and AI,
Information
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Categories:
teachers day,
Form: Rhyme
Flame Keepers
Classrooms ain't boxes, they're launchpads, ya hear
Where minds catch fire and fears disappear!
You don't teach subjects, you light up souls!
Creative sparks flying, beyond old-school goals!
"Can't do it?" No, you flip that script!
"Not yet" is the mantra that's got us all gripped!
When the world screams "QUIT," you whisper "Try,"
Grit in their bones, you're teaching
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Categories:
teacher, teachers day, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Our Guides
To those who guide with wisdom’s light,
Through every challenge, wrong, and right.
You shape our minds, our hearts, our way,
We honor you on this Teacher’s Day.
With patience deep and knowledge vast,
You help us learn, from first to last.
In every lesson, big or small,
You catch us when we fear the fall.
With humorous classes, that makes us hustle,
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Categories:
teacher, teachers day,
Form: Rhyme
Hold My Hand To Teach Me How To Write
Hold my hand to teach me how to write
Take me to the library. I need to shed light
On a few words that I have never seen before
Teach me how to spell, that can open a new door
For my future. I want to learn. I'm eager to learn
Feed my starving brain and help the minorities too
Let's
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Categories:
teachers day, humor, humorous, muse, teachers
Form: Rhyme
The Mentoring of Tumors
Lately, I've cut away hectares of tumors
that engulfed confidence, happiness
self-worth and wellbeing.
With surgery a bit of the good stuff was sacrificed:
A few shallow laughs, some adventure and mostly harmless mischief.
The mirror is filled with scars of the heart
excoriations of spirit
along with other yet to be discovered damage.
Though somewhat deformed, I like my new look.
I feel
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Categories:
teachers day,
Form: Free verse
Mr Wilby
Mr Wilby
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
Mr Wilby Mr Wilby..contemporary
Our teacher so A extraordinary
Upholding and guarding discipline
Buffed our learning to a shining
Class
Discamus .. paratus es ?
Wilby Wilby say
Gently He said good morning
Let us learn .. are you ready ?
Told a unexpected blonde story
Everyone expected a romantic
But it was just a ordinary story
Of another scandal.
Don't presume to conclude
One day
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Categories:
teachers day, 10th grade, books, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Four Met her at the Pearly Gates
Mrs. Marvel wore sweatshirt for twenty-eight years until her final breath.
Signed by her 8th grade students, four whom had died a tragic death.
Killed in a tragic bus accident on the way to a state cheerleading rally.
They met her at the pearly gates – Linda, Cherry, Patrice and Molly McNally.
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Categories:
teachers day,
Form: Rhyme
Silence - advice from a teacher
Make noise, be loud, bold, let your voice be heard; don’t be a wallflower, we have
enough of those already, the world needs leaders; you are soft spoken, don’t let dismissal by
others of your quiet tone discourage you; yell if you have to, if it’s what it takes for your voice to
be heard by others; you
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Categories:
teachers day, anxiety, school, stress, student,
Form: Free verse
Legendary Teacher and Student
Born in New England in the wake of the Civil War,
Her folks fled Irish famine and landed on our shore.
At age five, she took sick, losing almost all her sight.
At eight, her mother died, and her father, he took flight.
She and her kid brother went to a house for the poor.
Soon
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Categories:
teachers day, education, hero, inspirational, school,
Form: Rhyme
Die Another Day
Live To Die Another Day
Forced to fight
The Gladiator Way ...
I killed a woman
I killed my friend
We fought one another
To The End
I'll never forget
Her kindness in me
Her selfless sacrifice
She saved my life
Do you see
She trusted in me
That I was strong
To survive
To
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Categories:
death, teachers day,
Form: Rhyme
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