Education Thanks Poems

I wrote this poem around 2000 and won in the 4th Prize category of the Christian Poetry Association Competition. My poem was published in their...

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Words of a mother melting your spirit despite it being cold. Her loving you no matter what chasing that heart of gold. 
  ...

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Kelogb 10 (6-7-6)

For Emmanuel Adédayò Òjéládé. 



When for all the long lines,  
Eyes don't catch up the design 
Of all I had combined

And in...

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For hundreds of Moons
Save all the Summers,
You engaged young minds
One youth at a time
Teaching new students.

But that’s not all,
You mentored young
Teachers, with pride.
For many years.

Excellence,
Scholarship,
Legacy.

And...

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I
Some days we thank Creator God, and Spirit
naturally
Some days we think of Originator with limits
critically
Some of us thank the Universe, good fortune - Grace -
surgically
"Some...

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Dear mentors; your gracious words instruct*
Thanks; with good works, lives you construct.

*Isaiah 28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

Happy...

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I do not know the how

Nor the why

Rhyme be told i just don't care

So long as today's date is not 
April the 1st and i...

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children look forward, adults look around, elders look back

     looking back, I remember a long-forgotten accident I had. While riding my...

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Thanka Teacha everpleasant Notta Nietzsche 
Abbreviatetta heart allowappreciatetta
Dedicated unabated gainstchaos wecreated
Unjoyous distrust insteadplease usyoumust
Stirringwildly obliged erringsochildly

Gladnesseye find myteachas wizeandkind
Hopefultoo succeed soulfulltrue awareindeed
Patientlyreaching out crazysaint teachingdevout
Protectfrom...

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Thank You, Teacher
       
Teachers all on knowledge dine
And they unlock their students' minds.
So they can reach the path ...

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Life lessons...
            last a lifetime.
         ...

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Thank you for taking the time
to show me how to write.

Thank you for the sleepless nights you
spent marking my work,
Thank you for the time you...

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I
Behold Him; keep beholding Him
Six decades: how to be Christian
It is He who paid for my sin
I am cleansed by imputation

II
My soul's asking, Have you...

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It happened back in time, quite a long way,
Back in the day, as they today like to say:
An era when most donations to yeshivas** ...

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Good night my angels I hope you sleep tight
Leave the past in the past walk without fright
This beautiful day is coming to an end
I hope...

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