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Teacher Appreciation

8/26/2018

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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.]
10 Comments
Delilah
8/26/2018 12:11:03 pm

You rule!

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Eve link
7/21/2019 07:49:49 am

Thank you, Delilah!

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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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