He Stands Alone...Because He stands aloneWaiting by the doorOf his favourite busBecause He stands aloneBeside the driverHoping he opensBecause My son's too scaredTo press the buzzerThat signals alightingBecause My son fears the soundThe shrill of the buzzerThat signals exitingBecause He hears it like thunderRoaring VibratingTerrifyingBecause That's what it's likeWhen you're a kidWith a super powerLike … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #286
Ever heard of a student returning home and crying about a teacher in school? What if, instead of a student, it was a teacher who returned home crying about a student in school? Well, that's what happened to me two weeks ago! I was asking a class of 18 year olds to imagine they were … Continue reading Musings On Teaching Challenges #3: School Will Never Be The Same Again For This Teacher!
Noodle School Memories William Maxwell once saidTo writeAll I need is to remember the slamOf my childhood home's screen door I had no such doors but I do haveThe smell of a bowl of Yellow noodlesTo transport me backTo a time in my whites and blues From 7 to 12 years old in a dingy … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #285
Other than my 2.5 regular readers (yes, the decimal point is in the right place! The .5 is there to cater for absence due to the vicissitudes of life), no one would know I typically don't write the same content for my Monday poems and my Saturday essays (if they even know I write them!). … Continue reading How Two Movies & A Book Gave My Reading A New Life & Purpose
The One I Was Meant To Read A gazillion of themAll over the worldA gazillion nanosecondsThen my life disappears in a whirl What makes me thinkI can read them all?Every page every prefaceEvery line however small Just because I love booksI don't need to read everyoneJust because I love booksI don't need to read a … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #284
Of late I've been struggling with what to write. An idea would grab my attention and sit for a day or two in my head, then suddenly disappear. That's rarely happened. Til now. Also, more often than before, I now find myself waiting until the night before my weekly blog deadline, sweating buckets just to … Continue reading Endless Scrolling Is Killing My Attention & Writing. So How Do I Transition Out Of Scrolling?
Anger Anger That's what moves meChampioningThe stuff that never failsTo sway me Anger It's what fuelsMy creativityCaptures me Brings out the beast within me Anger When the stakes feel highMy rage rockets to the skyCreativity to flyMake a difference passionately ChampioningWhat I believe inWhat moves me emotionallyDaily That's what keepsThe juices a-flowingThe inspiration millChurning Anger … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #283
This is a post I thought I would only write when I'm well into my 60s or 70s. I was wrong! For the aches of aging don't only happen then. It's happening now as I cross my mid-50s! In fact, the signs of aging have already emerged slowly and subtly over the last five years … Continue reading The Aches And Assaults That Come With Aging
My Aurora Astronaut He stands astride All decked in space milky whiteAnd shoots out beamsTo my pristine ceiling And lo and beholdMy Northern Light showComes alive and flowBringing me endless delight untold Though seeing the Aurora Is on many a bucket listI'm not really sureIf it'll ever happen for me It seems so far to … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #282
In the blink of an eye, the annual April Autism Acceptance Month has come and (is about to be) gone. And I came close to almost forgetting all about it! Despite setting a personal goal to always write at least one post every April that talks about my daily ongoing journey as a caregiver to … Continue reading Autism Acceptance Month Has Come And Is Nearly Gone
