The Teacher

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    I wrote this for my sister "The Teacher"

    The Teacher
    Ring a ding ding
    Another school year begins
    The children file in
    Each face has a name
    Each one tells a story
    Good morning i say
    My name is Kim

    Once strangers to me
    We have now formed a bond
    I don't feel like a teacher
    But more like a mom

    The year is half over
    They now read and write
    I have made a difference
    In their lives and they in mine

    They tell you what they feel
    Speak what is on their minds
    It is all good and great
    Till your the one they pick on

    I chuckle as i watch them
    Making decisions of who Stays
    In the game or who they eliminate 
                 
    Cooties is the one thing
    That is going around i have
    To be careful not to get it
     Seems to be on the rise

    Alas the time has come
    I have a broken heart
    I realize the birds have hatched
    And now it is time to fly
    Saying good bye is so very hard
    I fight back the tears and

    Ring a ding ding
    The school year begins
    The children file in
    Each face has a name
    Each one has a story
    Good morning i say
    My name is Kim



     ©jewlianna Ruggiero

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    StandingBear commented on The Teacher

    10-31-2009

    A beautifully written tribute relating the emotions your sister goes through daily .. yearly. This should be a weekly winner here at OP! You can enter this special poem once a week in the contest were you to want to.
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    Jewl

    10/31/2009

    Thank you again. How do I enter the weekly contest?

    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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