Teacher Goodbye Poems

I waxed the floor too carefully—
the classroom still blue with youth I left behind.
Fresh chalk lined up like teeth I inhaled and exhaled.
Suspicion wore me...

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My friend Brenda’s dad walked on the other day…
he turned 100 years old in June…
Why is it even when someone lives a long and happy...

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winter at the door
to say gradual goodbye
welcoming the spring

walk in countryside 
to bless the mind bless the soul
nature is teacher
...

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When you left in the Uber
We knew it was the last time 
That we would see each other
I never ran away
I often would pray for...

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Justice For George

In Honor of George Floyd and the innocent lives stolen before and after him…
-God Bless the family of George Floyd

-From my heart to...

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GOODBYE TIM

The time has now come 
To say goodbye to you
Death was unexpected 
The good Lord only knew

Your soul was already gone
When your body was...

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LESSONS (In Memorium: 
Mervyn T Rodrigues, RIP, Dec 30, 2020;
Our Form Teacher, 4Science2, Class of 1971,
St Joseph’s Institution, Singapore)
~~~~~~~~~



Said and done
Glimpse of smart ones
A brilliant...

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Bloom of morn's welcome unfurls when pained goodbye acts as a teacher.



Silent One's One Liner--Hello and Goodbye
12/21/2018...

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Revelations,

intimating sanctions,

sailing you to make-shifts,

assailing with blank lips-

I rock Hetty,
while she make's a day-list,

I'm rock steady,
but she's having her hanky tins.

We both have a family-
they...

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They knock you up,
your class of twenty-seven.
They may-be a pain in the butt!
When we leave, you'll think its heaven!

Some you will dearly miss- 
the quiet...

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Her cremated ashes scattered to all the four winds
White, powdery and chalk like material
Devoid of any vestigial semblance 
To her once living and vibrant self
That...

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I’ve seen a wasteful of these dry classrooms,
One study in particular mocks me, 
The textbook that never retired till June, 
Indeed, her mass theories taunted...

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I’ll always remember the things that we did,
When you were my dad and I was your kid.
You were everything then that I wanted to be,
And...

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When I think of the times in therapy that I spent with Lenny, they weren't that of a therapist to a patient.  They were...

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Ray Ventre
even Loved by me,
his smallest acquaintance.
Want the ow to go away, want to 
go to last Thursday,
To see his joy
Again.
Ray was my teacher
On Thursdays,...

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