List: On Being a Teacher

• Friday Night Reflections - a sestina

  Listen to me my students, as I sit reflecting in my quiet
  captured and clutched in the frenzy of faith for this time.

  59 lines, 16 comments, on Feb 4 7:20 PM 2005. In Hope
• Poetry is

  life lives here
  in poetry

  24 lines, 11 comments, on Feb 17 3:58 PM 2005. In Hope
• April and I rise - a senyru series

  48 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 12 5:17 PM 2005. In Haiku, teaching, life, seasons
• Why do I teach?

  20 lines, 33 comments, on Apr 11 7:22 PM 2005. In Hope, teaching
• ACE Artistry

  ace hearts blooming in full hue
  life lives through our art

  3 lines, 2 comments, on May 10 7:24 AM 2005. In Haiku
• supernatural

  pouring deep into my soul
  honor is His gift

  2 lines, 25 comments, on May 12 10:53 PM 2005. In Haiku
• Once Friends - senyru

  blue rag white rag sit
  snuggly on hating heads of

  10 lines, 26 comments, on May 29 9:24 PM 2005. In Haiku, Pain, Society, gangs, violence, hate
• Faith in Action

  0 lines, 13 comments, on Jun 6 2:14 PM 2005. In Society
• AP Passion

  to write my heart's story here at
  AP

  3 lines, 25 comments, on Jun 14 8:44 PM 2005. In Other
• Who Will Carry This Torch?

  36 lines, 55 comments, on Jun 18 11:44 AM 2005. In Society, education, achievement gap, children, teaching
• The Lion and the Lamb - a senyru

  sticks and stones no more
  boys girls play sing help laugh rest

  2 lines, 17 comments, on Jul 23 10:28 AM 2005. In Childrens
• The Good Teacher - Tyburn poem

  Everyday shaping, learning truth.

  9 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 6 10:51 PM 2005. In Personal
• The First Day of School

  This is what every teacher is doing the first day of school!

  1 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 27 4:15 PM 2005. In Humor
• Hearing Faith

  Believe in your children
  because God loves them.

  19 lines, 43 comments, on Feb 21 12:04 PM 2006. In Childrens
• Please Come Back

  Please come back, dear Jesus,
  to our schools.

  49 lines, 41 comments, on Mar 18 2:37 PM 2006. In Society
• Response from God

  be at peace dear ones

  9 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 24 9:45 PM 2006. In Spiritual
• A Poem to Me from My Best Friend Heather

  28 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 13 4:09 PM 2006. In Love
• Huddled and Hurting

  27 lines, 42 comments, on Jun 19 8:09 PM 2006. In Society, child abuse, lonliness, sad
• thrown away - tanka

  4 lines, 35 comments, on Jun 22 8:47 PM 2006. In Dark
• Writing from my Heart by thelordreigns
  Sure I teach literature and reading and grammar, but I also teach how to write from the heart. I teach journaling.
• 
  My Vocational Essay by thelordreigns
  I can not think of a more precious gift to give my students than the love of the English language.
• 
  The Lighthouse, the Pine Tree, and the Lone Iris by thelordreigns
  This trip to Quoddy Head Lighthouse has renewed my hope, revived my freedom, and deepened my own faith in the path my life is taking.
  
• The Test - cinquain triplet

  19 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 6 11:08 AM 2007. In cinquains, tests, Humor
• Metric Mania

  17 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 8 7:13 PM 2007. In writing, poetry, bad blank verse
• A Sin of Omission - a teacher's regret

  55 lines, 34 comments, on Apr 19 12:25 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Dark, Pain, Personal, Sad, Society, teaching, prayer
• An Excellent Day

  18 lines, 23 comments, on Jun 11 7:15 PM 2007. In Life, Personal, Spiritual, excellence
• EXCELLENCE - a contest for members of Spoken Word Group only

  42 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 11 7:29 PM 2007. In Hope, Life, Society, excellence
• Priceless

  For all those "at-risk" teens. There is a miracle waiting for you to grasp.

  26 lines, 24 comments, on Jun 16 9:18 AM 2007. In Contemporary, Hope, Love, Society, graduation, education
• Huddled and Hurting - for publication

  She lies huddled in the littered concrete entrywayShe clutches the brown teddy bear to her bosom / and cries out silent screams

  5 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 22 3:38 PM 2007
• Essential Questions

  Why are the walls of my life in shambles? / Where is the color in my days? / What have I done to deserve this living nightmare? / How can I

  9 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 26 9:55 PM 2007. In Sad, Society, child abuse, loneliness
• Broken Innocence

  22 lines, 11 comments, on Jul 11 8:51 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Sad, Pain, child abuse
• My Quill - an etheree

  pen / golden / treasured friend / deadliest foe / gushing ruby ink / swallowing blank parchment / regurgitating moments / trapped in memory

  20 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 18 11:01 AM 2007. In writing
• Re: Amazon.com - a double rictameter

  Tolstoy / throws a fit at / "Anna Karenina; / in Half the Time" buy it now from / Amazon dot com ~ are they serious?

  26 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 21 1:54 PM 2007. In Writing, integrity, Tolstoy, novel
• For the Love of Tomorrow

  I dedicate my days to: / compa

  40 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 23 2:24 PM 2007. In Love, Society, teaching, children
• The answer to life's mysteries....

  Get a life ~ write!

  1 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 23 5:27 PM 2007. In one-liner, writing, Life
• pencil erasings - senyru

  pencil erasings / replaced by marks ~ the right words / smudges birth genius

  7 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 23 10:21 PM 2007. In haiku, writing
• I turn

  15 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 3 11:19 PM 2007. In Personal, Sad, Spiritual, Thoughts, 35 words or less
• Words

  They are power and might.
  They curse and they kill.

  18 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 17 2:33 PM 2007. In Life, Society, Spiritual, words
• Triplets

  29 lines, 19 comments, on Aug 21 6:46 PM 2007. In Love, Personal, friendship
• Thelordreigns

  13 lines, 14 comments, on Mar 19 5:14 PM 2007. In Life, Personal, teaching, hope
• Jacks In the Box

  BOXEDIN
  TRAPPED

  17 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 23 10:45 AM 2007. In Life, concrete poem
• Net Games

  52 lines, 32 comments, on Apr 28 4:29 PM 2008. In Life, Society, internet, intergrity
• Webbed - senyru

  5 lines, 19 comments, on May 3 11:00 AM 2008. In Society, Life, internet
• Priceless ACEs

  28 lines, 17 comments, on May 31 11:48 AM 2008. In Love, Society, graduation, miracles, overcomers, survivors, achievement, educa
• Unlimited Potential - a teacher's senyru

  5 lines, 16 comments, on Aug 10 9:11 PM 2008. In back to school
• Reflections on a May Lily

  24 lines, 14 comments, on May 28 5:53 PM
• A Prayer of Gratitude

  43 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 10 10:51 PM 2005. In Spiritual, revival, fasting, prayer

• By me, right now

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