Teacher Appreciation Teacher appreciation week With donuts Can’t thank you Enough A roost of confidence A welcoming pheasance In the early warning When you put your chairs In a circle Everything you touch You change. They pile in Larking their spots With jackets and colored pens And yatter You open the shades Sunshine shimmies in Moved By a book that you Read out cloud The child in the clock Talks For the burst time My own mother, he says Gave me away In the dropsicle And And You speck in Half a screp Because he can’t Finish But you can’t Fuse the word Abandoned A slice of a knife In a stace with His peers So you say The sense Of being left. (You think bereft.) Yes He says. His classmates Nod. Hold The moment Before Venturing and adventuring Breaking and entering. At the end of the day The custodians Put the desks In rows That never were Pull the shades down. As if overnight Someone from a laboring building Might sprook into your classroom And speal some knowledge Or your weft Or donuts On off hours. [Thx for reading. The 'like' button here on Weebly sites is only an anonymous counter, and doesn't let me know who has 'liked' this post. So pls. leave me a word in the comments, or 'like' on FB instead.]
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Delilah
8/26/2018 12:11:03 pm
You rule!
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Perry
5/5/2021 08:40:56 am
What's that the young people say? "I'm not crying, you're crying?" Beautiful.
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Eve
5/5/2021 08:55:09 am
Aww, Perry, thx for reading ❤️
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Rachel C
5/5/2021 03:47:30 pm
so many fine turns here, but the dropsicle was the dropsicle!
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Eve Becker
5/5/2021 04:49:17 pm
Massively grateful for the praise of a writer whose work I so admire. I consider myself a poor poet... but I wrote this from the heart, and honestly think that teachers need to try our hands at all the forms we ask (or should ask!) our students to write.
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Rasha
5/5/2021 07:03:52 pm
Like reading first grade writing, in the best way. Carefully studying each word for the sounds of it, pulling together meaning. Rereading. And looking forward to reading again.
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Eve
5/5/2021 07:28:58 pm
💙💙💙 Thank you 🕊
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Ann
5/7/2021 03:19:37 pm
Frank Bruni has a regular feature in his newsletter called "For the Love of Sentences." I feel like submitting your entire teacher appreciation poem for him to share with his readers.
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Eve
5/7/2021 05:23:36 pm
Awww, Ann. You are too sweet. I'm truly not a confident poet. All prose, all the time. Your praise means so much to me.
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