Tenure Poems - Poems about Tenure

Dear Tenure for Teachers, You need to abolish yourself. Be honorable and do the right thing. Overdose on morphine or jump off a cliff into a den of wild wolves. The good teachers do not need you. You are around to help the ones who need to leave the profession. You have saturated our profession with unprofessionalism. In any other business, the...

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Are our spirits that of the great Thunderbird sowing their seeds within the powerful storm are we just feathers afloat like useless words slowly they float down landing within the form. See the steamy breath rise from the buffalo the majestic beast with his coat is quite warm. Are you grasped by a mournful wolves howling woe such lonely sadness during the...

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Down the busy road I ride Spiralling control of the reins, Drenched in sweat with pride I surrendered myself to the rains. Merchants I met many During my service at the docks, I couldn't but find ,any Wanderer like me in the merchant's block. The tenure I recall Of visiting the sandy desert, Where the sun lets the ember fall Is the only description ,it's...

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I am sneaking in a bit of me time again. Maniacal laughter here In actuality, I sneak in a bit of work in between my me-times. Luckily, they do not know As no one keeps an eye on me anymore. They are afraid of what they might see And I have tenure. No matter how insane I get, This protects me. It is my...

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It all started when I took a typing test I did 95 words per minute and made two errors The requirement was 50 or more words Human Resources was impressed and set up the Department interview It was my history in becoming 33 years ago This is my personal streaming flow Now let’s start the show The date was June 21, 1982 The...

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Welcome to the hot seat our new president where pressure and strain are the porters of your office you might have got our mandates but our minds are filled with clouds of uncertainties Please number one citizen, concentrate and avoid any form of foul play remember that we are not a herd of cows being directed without a say or question Challenges have...

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I stood on shore at rivers edge And gazed at it as it streamed by Me. I was mesmerized by its Uninterrupted babbling voice That captured my receptive ears. I thought about eternity: Thinking how insignificant I[we] are in the scheme of things. This majestic river flowing Through time endlessly to the sea While I a humbled sojourner Standing on forever’s shoreline Realizing temporariness Even for a moment...

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