Genre Reflection
What time
shall bring?
Orange,
black, and white fills me with delight,
Filling their vessels my resolute task.
Some of them fight my goal with all their might,
Yet for others all I need is ask.
Filling their vessels my resolute task.
Some of them fight my goal with all their might,
Yet for others all I need is ask.
Learning
things they do not teach in college,
Facing the challenge, continuing forth,
Attempting sharing part of my knowledge,
Willing yet for me to know my real worth.
Facing the challenge, continuing forth,
Attempting sharing part of my knowledge,
Willing yet for me to know my real worth.
Where will I
be when the time comes next year?
Living
to learn anxiety and fear?
Heat of the moment
“Mister
Thom’p’son, how would you react
If someone were here with ill-will to enact?
Would you do what’s right, protect us from harm?
Do your civic duty and buy the farm?”
If someone were here with ill-will to enact?
Would you do what’s right, protect us from harm?
Do your civic duty and buy the farm?”
Of
course my answer is: “I would be true
And risk my mortality for you few.
What the actual answer, how would I know
What could ever happen to time’s flow.
And risk my mortality for you few.
What the actual answer, how would I know
What could ever happen to time’s flow.
Then
would I realize what I could do,
Yet I hope I could be chivalrous too.
Yet I hope I could be chivalrous too.
My dearest Michael,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this. Your section "Heat of the moment" really hit home with me, and probably with a lot of teachers. It is something we don't like to think or talk about. We like to think stuff like that wont happen but it sadly does every now and then. But it is something that needs to be talked about and I appreciate the fact that you are saying it here. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Thank you! I enjoyed reading through your poem because of its meter and rhyme scheme! The concrete way it's written gives peace to my mind and makes me receptive to the material. I'm OCD, I know. Great work though! I feel your struggle and willingness to improve and was whole-heartedly ready to come to your aid by the end of the works. You can do it!
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ReplyDeleteI like the use of poetry. I especially like the second poem. Its rhyme and meter seem to work better than the first. I also like the contrast of the tone with the seriousness of the subject matter.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Thompson,
ReplyDeleteThank you for this heart felt poem. You are showing vulnerability when you ask the question, "Living to learn anxiety and fear?" You remind me it's important for students to see teachers are not perfect and have fears of their own. In the second poem you show your protective nature for your students. I feel students should have a sense of trust or safety with their teachers and you seem to have plenty.
Sincerely,
Christina Jones
Dear Michael,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your two poems. I’m intrigued by “Heat of the Moment” and what inspired it. Did a student really ask about your intentions, if an intruder entered the building/classroom and threatened hard to the students? It makes me wonder more about the student and how much the news of gun violence on college and K12 campuses has impacted his/her perspective on school safety. How much do students think about and worry about their own safety at school—not just from the schoolyard bully but also from peers and adult strangers with access to weapons and an intent to harm? Thanks for sharing your own introspection related to this ever more important issue, particularly in light of recent state legislation regarding guns in schools and on campuses.
Katie
Katie,
ReplyDeleteWe were going through the different lockdown procedures and drills, and I was standing out a bit further than I should have been in a real situation, and one of the students pointed it out. I said something about how if something were to happen I would need to be the closest to the threat due to what I was doing and they asked me if I thought my CT would do it as well, to which I said I didn't think there was any doubt about her getting in the way if need be. It's just not something I had really thought about before, so it really touched me.