Best Teacher Poems

Chaos ruled OK in the classroom
as bravely the teacher walked in
the nooligans ignored him
his voice was lost in the din
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A millionbillionwillion miles from home
Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)
Why are they all so big, other children?
So noisy? So much at home they
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In life
one is always
balancing
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What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the
streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.

In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit
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Hey Father Death, I'm flying home
Hey poor man, you're all alone
Hey old daddy, I know where I'm going
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'My teacher wasn't half as nice as yours seems to be.
His name was Mister Unsworth and he taught us history.
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Here's the rule for what to do
If ever your teacher has the flu
Or for some other reason takes to her bed
And a different teacher comes instead
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Homework! Oh, Homework!
I hate you! You stink!
I wish I could wash you away in the sink,
if only a bomb
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Son, what will you do
If you are given three wishes from God?
The teacher stares at the 13 years old student
With a deep sigh
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I put my heart to school
In the world, where men grow wise,
'Go out,' I said, 'and learn the rule;
Come back when you win a prize.'
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We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin.
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don't hurt anyone,
to the best of your definition of hurt,
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A bad teacher is negatively pessimistic
A good teacher is positively optimistic

A bad teacher swears all the time
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Then said a teacher, 'Speak to us of Teaching.'

And he said:
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Why I am being pushed to school?
For refining self and not looking fool,
To stay away from home and look cool,
Or to learn the system how to pass stool,
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I was once a 'budding' ballerina,
With all the right outfits to wear,
There never was anyone keener,
I had point shoes and tutus to spare.
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AN old man's thought of School;
An old man, gathering youthful memories and blooms, that youth itself
cannot.

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Quack, quack says the duck,
"Be wake of quack and the hulk.
Avoid avidity accept avid,
Play with good boy like David."
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Aakhir tum kyu itne dil k paas ho,
Koi to vajah jarur hai, jo tum itne khas ho.

Mere dosto mein sabse pehle tumhara hi naam aata hai,
Rabb ki kasam humara pichle kai janmo se nata hai.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate,
All but the page prescrib'd, their present state:
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:
Or who could suffer being here below?
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A BEST FRIEND-Makes a lunch trade with you even if he doesn't love peanut butter and jelly.
A BEST FRIEND-Notices you standing alone by the fence and invites you to play hockey with the rest of the class.
A BEST FRIEND-Chooses you to go camping with him each summer.
A BEST FRIEND-Puts chalk in the teacher's eraser so you're not the only
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Schoolmistress
Having, with bold Horatius, stamped her feet
And waved a final swashing arabesque
O'er the brave days of old, she ceased to bleat,
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Teacher, teacher, teacher,
you don't be a preacher,
and never be a searcher,
I will become a researcher,
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Dropping!
Doping,
Velvet,
Tamarind;
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I walk among the rows of bowed heads--
the children are sleeping through fourth grade
so as to be ready for what is ahead,
the monumental boredom of junior high
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Lynzie Anne Mc Kenzie was a very creative girl,
She made a macaroni necklace for her teacher Mrs. Pearl.
'It's the dumbest gift I've seen! ' Laughed little Tony Maloney,
'Nobody wants a necklace made from macaroni! '
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In every school, to every student
there's a special teacher.
To every teacher, to every student
there's a special bond.
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Sometimes I wonder
What should be the colour of love?
Colours like red, blue, green all occupied
Yellow, brown and pink all well defined
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What importance we give to children?
Are they not the messenger from heaven?
Can they prove apostle of peace and preacher?
In times to come they can prove best teacher
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It is your company in solitude I treasure,
Those are the imaginative moments of pleasure;
I long to be within your majestic universe ever,
To seek the creative bliss beyond measure;
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Oh! Teacher, Oh! Teacher,
If you, one day, become my student,
and I become your Teacher.
Before I teach you
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1992

1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea.
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____nothing glamorous, a lady
_____ walking down the stairs
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I made a mark beside her name,
Just trying to keep score.
If she keeps talking on, I thought,
She'll earn herself some more.
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Written Mother’s day 2009

What thoughts that day…went through your mind?
Sweet gentle lady; born one of a kind,
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An infant grew into a kid with joy
The Kid developed into a school boy
The Boy matured as a Youth,
The Same youth turned into a scholar
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If external action is effete
and rhyme is outmoded,
I shall revert to you,
Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class
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Teacher, teacher, teacher, teach me now
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You are my mother
More supportive than a brother
You are my mother
More compassionate than a sister
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You are my creator
My mentor, my teacher,
You are the guiding force of my life
Who always help me in times of strife.
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Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good !
Into my heart have I received that Lay
More than historic, that prophetic Lay
Wherein (high theme by thee first sung aright)
Of the foundations and the building up
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I was visibly moved and perturbed
Out of gear completely and disturbed
Mind so much occupied and probed,
Hair straight up as if not combed,
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One day I sent some words to Tel Aviv.
Perhaps, they whisper in the grasses yet.
Good-bye to my last teacher and my best.
A letter to be read over your grave.
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I am small because I am a little child. I shall be big when I am
as old as my father is.
My teacher will come and say, "It is late, bring your slate
and your books."
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Life is a teacher, which teaches how to live.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to win.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to laugh.
Life is a teacher, which teaches how to make other people cry.
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The autistic child’s fingers fly across
the keys releasing inaudible syllables
of joy, floating upward between
his fingers.
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There is a voice inside of you
that whispers all day long,
'I feel that this is right for me,
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Friend? hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think... and think... while you are alive.
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Mary had some bubble gum, bubble gum, bubble gum
Mary had some bubble gum
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I'm a child again,
as memories come flooding back.
Here I am standing outside my old school
which is due to be demolished for something more modern.
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Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread
and fried potatoes, tips green on the branches,
repeats old news: arrogance, ignorance, war.
A cinder-block wall shared by two houses
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i was dead
i came alive
i was tears
i became laughter
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Neutrality is the balance
between bad and good
life is water...
a balance between good and bad,
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THE room is quiet, thoughts alone
People its mute tranquillity;
The yoke put on, the long task done,­
I am, as it is bliss to be,
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When I was little,
My mother charmed me with delightful stories.
She knew I was enchanted by fairy tales.
And I would sit up with rapt attention
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Save Our Children
From Technology
They are totally addicted
To Technology
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School is an institution for educating children,
It brings integrity and feeling of brethren.
It refers to both building and pupils,
Pupils sickle lesson as farmers yield through sickles.
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Teacher says,
teacher goes,
teacher smiles,
teacher knows,
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Teachers we love you,
For all the kind things you do,
using your teaching tools and talents,
Keeping everything in balance,
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You're still young and innocent and mild
After all you're still only a child
You have parents, that are supposed to protect you
But often they don't, more than they do
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Sitting under the Banyan tree I watch the water hitting its raised roots
Restless and agitated as a disturbed mind.
It's effervescence matching my own state of mind.
On the sun baked land the Banyan tree stands alone in silent meditation.
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Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide,
Came a ghost, and for a moment walked in silence by my side --
Now my heart was hard and bitter, and a bitter spirit he,
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Respective Duties And Responsibilities Are The Key To
Sustainable Prosperity Stability Peace And Happiness
January 5, 2021
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Change you can your hair color, not your skin;
Change you can your smile and grin: not your eyes;
Change you can your sex partners, not your kin;
Change you can your sinful life: Be soul-wise!
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Straight as a nun I sit.
My fingers foolish before paper and pen
hide in my palms. I hear the slow, accented echo
How are yu? I ahm fine. How are yu?
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Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think... and think... while you are alive.
What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time before death.
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For the care
You rendered
Like a father or a mother,
Like the concern
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Swift swallows sailing from the Spanish main,
O rain-birds racing merrily away
From hill-tops parched with heat and sultry plain
Of wilting plants and fainting flowers, say--
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I don't know
How many little things
Have contributed in making me
I do not know how such small things
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(After Rilke)


Spring has returned! Everything has returned!
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There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
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We are little children,
That go to Sabbath school,
To hear of our Redeemer,
Likewise the golden rule.
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Oh! Goddess of Knoledge and Wisdom!

Blessed I am to provide knowledge to those
Who seek the same from me and chose!
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before i met u i was known mearly by my name
after i met you i am known as the happiest soul
you are my inspiration, you are my teacher
you are my angel, you are my superstar
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My parents once asked me
When you grow up
What would you like to be?
An actor I said
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There is nothing,
Like being a FRIEND.
There is nothing,
Like being a WELL WISHER.
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Why couldn't English be easy?
Even the great poet Edwards complained about it
Why couldn't English be easy?
[He] could be she
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My vision is the azure sky
And dreams are Paradise
My dwelling is behind the wall
I’m hidden to probing eyes
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I am twenty-four
led to slaughter
I survived.
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Riding on the waves of sorrow and mirth
Traverses life of human if the sail is smooth.
Hurricanes n tornado with mountainous tides
No doubt to it capsize n it's doom they decide.
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O, .wind, people may laugh at me and blame
High velocity speed may bring only shame
What to do? Close the eyes or cover the knee
In both the cases it will only harm me
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This is to the motherland,
Where I am born.
This is to the teacher,
Who taught me nothing.
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Many decades after graduation
the students sneak back onto
the school-grounds at night
and within the pane-lit windows
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An urban teacher recently transferred to a rural school
Had complaint of, ‘Inability to pass his stool’.
His wife thought, “Husband may be speaking lie
Let me take him to Freud- City’s sexiest guy.”
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If I should meet you
on the dusty road of life
Do not despair
for I am your teacher
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Like a warm breath of air
He hovers in my memory
No superman, a meek soul
Not one to squander his time
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Clad in long white pants
Folded ‘n Tucked up at ankle
Seated on mate's cycle bar
Arrived he, at our village school
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to my sister, Sharon,
and all her glistening music

go deeper into the woods soothed my pages,
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dedicated to all teachers by profession

as Mentor
let the mentor gives an advice
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Am waiting for you, my son
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It's the birthday of a wonderful person
Who has enriched our world in many ways
She is a scholar and a teacher
An avid reader and an author of books
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Little girl, do you feel many eyes watching you each day,
while, in sun or rain, outside you carry on ….at your play?
It's just me, your multi-eyed little pencil-case-spider-friend.
Remember when last year, on playground, me you did defend?
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She remembers the cherry trees were in bloom when she met him,
Time rolls back,
In a humble cafe, drinking tea,
A man leans across and catches her arm,
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Neither of us knows
where we are heading
Yet your smile glows
Like a flowering of hope
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The everyday duties of a teacher
Are as difficult as they can be,
Whether in an elementary or secondary school
Or whether the teacher is a he or she.
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This world is filled with hate

Hate against life
Hate against your friends
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It has neither a beginning nor an end
You can never predict where it will bend.

Life is a teacher, it will show you the way
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I love my teacher
He is full of life
I love my teacher
He doesn't cause any strife
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Its very hard as rock
Soft as butter
To respect your teacher
To wish a teacher
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The jeering crowd like jackals stood,
To see what must be done.
Though once they thought this man was good,
They didn't see God's Son.
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Why do I hate my homework?
It is a pest like a brother
Or a sister of another
It is like a very boring book
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