This poet is an educator. Welcome to my classrooms.
Jenna pops in and Jenna pops out
and finds class harder than she should.
A coffee here, more rest there
she's not quite getting the grades she would.
But Jenna will learn when she is darn ready
that we shall reap just what we sow
and
dig as she may and drop in the germ,
the seed of an absence won't grow
some calling pulls her, the way that she goes
and she will excel when she finally knows
but
just for today, Jenna my dear, I beg thee
to spend a little time here.
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Has 160 handbags, for her hands,
which
say more than her mouth.
Speaketh she
ASL to me
and I hope to understand some day.
A writer of the highest ilk
A Shakespeare
with pen of silk.
Oh but when she speaksin ASL
she's just as loud as
a sonic bommety-boomety
boom boom boom in
the otherwise silent
room.
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There is a whisp of winter air
that follows her through the day.
an air of angelic
naivete
that draws
the opposite sex to her magnetically.
A form of attention
she cannot turn away
without a blush or a smile
leaving him wondering all the while,
which gets her
in squabbles with girls at times.
Her smile shows her
heart,
there is no pretending
in
her world.
And she
always puts
her best foot
forward.Jayden!
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Carson Duda
tall and strong
waiting for life
to come along
and sweep you off your size 12
feet.
Carson Duda
tall and strong
Cherw your gum and focus hard
Duda never let down our guard.
That's who you are
Carson Duda
tall and strong
you are coming right
along!
CLR 2011
Baby blue is her favorite
color, and she doesn't care for animals.
She does not like to be preached, and the rest of her
hopes and dreams and thoughts,
she keeps
in a securely fastened envelope,
under her coat.
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Chris does pull ups
yes he doeeesss
he's in great shape
not just becuaaaaase
Chris is going to be great
He will protect our great state.
sound off
home
work.
soundoff homework
HOMEWORK
Chris has go to come to class
or his grade will kick his
sass.
Sound off.
Home work
soundoff
HOMEWORK!
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New York City
a well-oiled bridle,
tended to by an old-timer.
Wrestler
staunch,
good-humored,
classic,
respectful
successful
unassuming,
humble.
Greatness lives
Inside his chaotic writing.
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i
Madoka
is not
Dakota
nor is she
Lakota,
or
Makota.
Madoka
is a great
smiler
and laugher
but she does not
live in North
Dakota
nor
South Dakota
Nor Minnesota,
but Puyallup,
which confuses me.
But does she
Wantabe
Madoka?
CLR 2010
"Assert yourself", she said to me, and so, much like a flash,
I felt a p'wr rise up in me, and hope that it will last.
A perfect line of iambs there, but not a perfect mete',
Jessica delights in verse and feels it from her feet.
This said, I wonder why I cannot figure out her prose,
she's like a garden full of gifts that no one e'en knows.
Composed, serene, with dancing eyes, her posture says she cares.
To hear and know and think and grow, this oozes out her ears!
So thank you dear, for being here, and sharing you with us,
We are the ones quite lucky you know, leaning on your truss.
CLR 2011
Leah has a core
of steel
that keeps
her upright and powerful
Leah is filled with the power of every new concept
she's learned
Bad weather can't touch it, nor the terrorist economy-
no person can take it from her.
She owns what she knows, because
she works harder than most
to dance beautifully in the
ballroom
of life.
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and then, she wrote---or maybe found this quote....
"A teacher who is indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the class of her wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind"--Thanks for being a great teacher-Leah Sartell
HE promises your fabulous
future, which has been
planned and executed already
and it is not meant to be worrisome,
but
joyous
amazing and
adventurous.Your life.
You are YOU
and no one else, and for that
you must pay it forward
and forward for you are blessed
and although you have felt the pain that HE
had, you are alive and well.
And now, please go!
One step, then another
behaving as though you are the success
that you already are.
It is your secret and I won't tell,
but you can't hide it for long.
You are divine
you are human
you are sublime
you torment silently, unecessarily.
you have nothing to worry about
your future is perfect,
as is mine.
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Ashley knows that
"life aint fair
and yet she keeps
anger hidden there,
in the deepest cesspool
lies
a hole where suffering
affecs her eyes
and colors all her thoughts.
Ashley grows in light and love
but has died where no eyes
have plied
where she keeps the
unforgiven THIS
even though she knows
that life ain't fair.
CLR 2010
Austin Lufkin writes
he crafts,
he molds,
he chisels
his art, which makes him
live and breathe,
and Austin Lufkin
writes.
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(To which he replied: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"-William Shakespeare)
Although it is clear
that you have
mastered the art of the metaphor,
I will thank you
not to be
naughty.
CLR 2010
Inside Ernesto simmers
a pot of hormones
bubbling to the surface
through his eyes
and his
unbelievably terrifying
gaze.
Ernesto will charm
every woman he sees and she
will say "thank you so much!"
His intellect, if it chooses, would melt through the books
with the heat of his Latino Machismo
times ten, which
would surely get him what he wants in life,
Success
CLR 2010
Neff is enough when he strolls into class,
expecting applause for his absent sass.
As if his tart sense of humor wasn't enough,
Zachary occasionally reminds me he's tough.
The hair on his neck, it sticks straight out and
he angrily growls, much like Laius probably did
right before 'road rage' brought him down.
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'Add Steve the Penguin' said Zach. 'ok' said Ms. Ray
Such a presence of quiet strength
and humility brings the tune of 'Big Bad John'
to mind.
An unassuming dedication to precision
and progress
and most every other 'p' word,
except maybe
pancakes--I Hope, for example
will find him Nowhere near
their toxic poison.
But I digress, which he never does,
and holds no contempt for those
of us who lack his discipline--
We will see him reach his dreams.
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Maddy knows where Maddy goes
and she has her fingers on the pulse
of the school.
So Maddy knows where
everyone goes and you will find her
right in the throes
of all that is good and all that is right
and all that is day, and yes, all that is night!
Ask her anything and watch her go!
Maddy, Maddy
what a wonderful show!
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Nurse Shannon
serene and self-contained
her gentle bemusement
expresses her wildest sentiment.
Shannon is a flower that
has been well tended to,
parents weeding the garden
and teaching her botany.
Grace could be her middle name
and safe is where
she lives.
Warmth surrounds her every word,
and all her patients
will adore her.
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Fifty years old in her
teenaged costume,
Alighta has seen it all.
Some dancing elf of evil origins
has caught her attention
and won't give it back.
Alida is solid in her
knowledge that high school is
coming to an end.
With resolve
she digs her heels in
refusing to let it go.
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