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Open Poetry #39

As the bell rings......

Kalandria
Junior Member

since 2006-05-23

Posts 44
Yorkshire, England

0 posted 2006-10-09 03:50 PM

The bell's echo fades,
Children's feet, like the stampeding
thunder of fleeing game,
retreat towards the wire clad gate,
And I am left alone

In a room once filled with youthful voice,
I sit in solitary thought,
Paper flowers, smiling at me
from walls coloured with the
kind of bleak paint, bought in bulk,
but flaking before the first coat dries.

Pastel planets and a fading sun,
bear witness to the tears
that fall onto my desk.
Pooling upon a page lined
with red, teachers' ink.
A gold star stuck in the corner
of the proudest page.

From 9 'til 3 I must not feel,
Must don my dutiful, impassive mask.
For teachers don't weep or dare to dream,
We smile, we care, we tend.
But when the smile begins to ache
and the last page is turned,
Who's there to hold my hand?
To teach me to find my grace.

I am lost in a darkness,
Punctuated by daily glimpses
into the still bright lives of those
Who see me as nothing more
than sixty minutes of compulsory distraction.
Shuffling papers into a plastic bag,
I switch out the lights,
And steal the colour
From my make believe world.

JesusChristPose
Senior Member

since 2005-06-21

Posts 777
Pittsburgh, Pa

1 posted 2006-10-09 04:48 PM

~ A poem only a teacher could write. The first stanza was my favorite, and it drew me straight into the rest of the poem. The final stanza "wrapped it up" rather neatly.

Enjoyed!

"Melvin, the best thing you got going for you is your willingness to humiliate yourself."

Pilgrimage
Member Elite

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

2 posted 2006-10-09 05:03 PM

I like this one, and the glimpse of a life I've never lived.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

themute
Member

since 2006-05-08

Posts 469
Maryland

3 posted 2006-10-09 05:13 PM

Perhaps one should love to teach to be a teacher.

I am the two-toed wanderer

Kalandria
Junior Member

since 2006-05-23

Posts 44
Yorkshire, England

4 posted 2006-10-09 06:07 PM

themute- Oh I do love the teaching, very much. I wrote this because I lost someone dear to me this morning and it occured to me that no matter how we feel, we always don a smile for the class.

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