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Tenured Poems - Poems about Tenured

No Deal
...You can’t make a deal with a Judas As tenured they govern on high Like the British who sought our indenture With graft and self-interest they lie You can’t play the game any longer Whe......

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Categories: tenured, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Faculty Mortality
... publish or perish no sham tenured tradition… whispers ~ perdition ......

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Categories: tenured, education, fate, writing,
Form: Senryu



Quid Sum
...Not an academic Poet Not a tenement Poet Not a beat or a blues or a church Poet Not a famous or infamous or celebrity Poet Not an Irish or Basque or Welsh Poet Not a formal Poet Not a ......

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Categories: tenured, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Are All Teachers
...Lest we forget WE ARE ALL “TEACHERS” In a classroom without windows Exposed In truth and lies Tenured in memories Tinged by the angst of youth Measured By times melancholic muse BEWARE Fo......

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Categories: tenured, children, education, mentor, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Uneducated Tears
...Belts, paddles, switches, and rulers were once instruments of punishment. Although very rarely, in my early years, a belt was Daddy's favorite. I was always a quick learner and never a glutton for ......

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Categories: tenured, cry,
Form: Verse



Exit Only
...Thoughts once spoken the bottle open Genie tenured —reentry closed (Dreamsleep: August, 2022)......

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Categories: tenured, spoken word, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member By Your Mercy
...By Your mercy, Lord I’m secured Your providence can’t be measured You’ve placed me in a stable job For my needs and for all my love Divine protection is assured. For transgressions, I know I’m......

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Categories: tenured, inspirational,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Ink and Paper
...With awkward reach the strike of the pen has tipped the ink well splattering onto white paper, vanquishing the lyrics from the poet’s pen, scribbling vignettes of joy or strife, little stories-a......

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Categories: tenured, absence, dark, emotions, feelings,
Form: Verse
Beam Curvature
...feeling his vitamin injection a new adventure begins a slapstick epic of unfathomable implication here unfolds as the rat gnawed curtain rises at Ye Bone and Gristle among the clattering of wooden......

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Categories: tenured, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Good Earthy Tease
...I have nothing against traditional presentations of poetry – Though, not for me! – personally liking a winged start: projecting freely...as a ......

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Categories: tenured, extended metaphor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Celestial Masochists
...cheer the hell up if you can nothing cheats the hangman like enthusiasm since my next act will be to answer all your questions as your tenured professor of dyslexia throw down your eye wear blu......

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Categories: tenured, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Magna Veritas
...Mightier than fibs and sharp swords, Manacled truth will with time prevail Against high peak and gigantic vale, And glossed lips' deodorized words. Sharper than lucre's nectared studs Stabs......

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Categories: tenured, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Didactic
Your Professors Are Lying To Youe - Iii
...III. Then there is their favorite target, the faceless foe they call ‘the rich,’ who they claim keep everyone down, the academics so love to . They sat they get rich off our backs, but they’re ......

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Categories: tenured, art, corruption, education, how
Form: Rhyme
An Answer For All, Part 1
...Take leave of this Veneer of contented containment Go tell your thoughts Delineate the shades of Dusk and the dark Beneath the ashes sleep Never renews this life Little lived over and Out ......

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Categories: tenured, philosophy, riddle, satire, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lily of the Nile
...Lily of the Nile O Lily of the Nile, your enchanting purple starburst blooms rise on naked stalks to greet lovers on their river stroll as nature lifts their spirits high where sett......

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Categories: tenured, beauty, flower, river,
Form: Verse

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