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Funny and Touching Poems About Teachers - Thedigiteachers

The document contains 10 poems related to teachers. The poems cover topics such as students changing over time, common excuses students give for incomplete work, classroom rules and routines, teaching dreams where former students return as adults, a silly teacher who tries to punish inanimate objects, the lasting impact of a teacher's guidance shown through a fingerprint scar, and the difficulty of saying goodbye to a caring teacher.

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Funny and Touching Poems About Teachers - Thedigiteachers

The document contains 10 poems related to teachers. The poems cover topics such as students changing over time, common excuses students give for incomplete work, classroom rules and routines, teaching dreams where former students return as adults, a silly teacher who tries to punish inanimate objects, the lasting impact of a teacher's guidance shown through a fingerprint scar, and the difficulty of saying goodbye to a caring teacher.

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Funny And Touching Poems About

Teachers

By Thedigiteachers

8 poems – one poem per page


Subject to Change
BY MARILYN L. TAYLOR
A reflection on my students

They are so beautiful, and so very young

they seem almost to glitter with perfection,

these creatures that I briefly move among.

I never get to stay with them for long,

but even so, I view them with affection:

they are so beautiful, and so very young.

Poised or clumsy, placid or high-strung,

they're expert in the art of introspection,

these creatures that I briefly move among—

And if their words don't quite trip off the tongue

consistently, with just the right inflection,

they remain beautiful. And very young.

Still, I have to tell myself it's wrong

to think of them as anything but fiction,

these creatures that I briefly move among—

Because, like me, they're traveling headlong

in that familiar, vertical direction

that coarsens beautiful, blackmails young—

the two delusions we all move among.


A Teacher’s Lament
BY KALLI DAKOS

Don’t tell me the cat ate your math sheet,

And your spelling words went down the drain,

And you couldn’t decipher your homework,

Because it was soaked in the rain.

Don’t tell me you slaved for hours

On the project that’s due today,

And you would have had it finished

If your snake hadn’t run away.

Don’t tell me you lost your eraser,

And your worksheets and pencils, too,

And your papers are stuck together

With a great big glob of glue.

I’m tired of all your excuses;

They are really a terrible bore.

Besides, I forgot my own work,

At home in my study drawer.


Room 19, Eakin Elementary
By Diane Gilliam Fisher
There’s a boys’ line and a girls’ line

in Miss Sharp’s room, and line leaders.

Three reading groups – Lions, Tigers and Zebras

Miss Sharp tells you once,

Then it’s up to you. Remember what you are.

It’s not allowed visiting with your neighbour.

It’s not allowed poking your pencil

through your milk carton for the straw,

you get lead poisoning.

It’s not allowed telling what you dreamed

for sharing, you have to bring something

people can see. You have to write

With fat pencils that make you

write slower. When you write capital letters.

Go almost to the top of the line, but don’t

Touch it, it’s poison. When it’s free time,

you have to use it wisely. When it’s recess,

girls hold hands and march

between the tetherballs, teachers and boys,

and sing with their faces

pushed out real far-

We don’t stop for nobody


We don’t stop for nobody
Teaching Dreams
By Cecil B. Morris
Some nights

Students return to me

Like salmon to their spawning bed.

They shake my hand

And sit across from me

And tell me what they have done

What they will soon be doing.

I remember all their names

And just where each one sat in my classroom.

Still, when they tell me

What they learned,

It’s not what I remember teaching.


The Silliest Teacher in School
BY DARREN SARDELLI
Our teacher gave detention

to the fountains in the hall.

She handed extra homework

to the artwork on the wall.

We saw her point a finger

at a banner and a sign.

She said their bad behavior

was completely out of line.

The principal approached her

and said, “What is all this fuss?

I heard you tried to punish

all the tires on a bus.

“You’ve made the teachers angry

by disrupting all their classes,

so if you want to keep this job,

you have to wear your glasses!”


Marked for Life
By Janie Reinart
Thin jagged line

Almost invisible,

(Because you can barely make it out)

Throbbing with pressure

Against the third-grade fingertip of your reading

Woooord by wooooord

Like a scare

Marking the process of your struggle to learn

What the words are trying to say

Feeling the hurt

And uneven texture of the page

Blurred by tears

Knowing it will always show

Forever changing the fingerprint of your school life

And holds on oh so tight

Guiding your reading and thinking

Practicing strategies and praising you

Causing the scar to fade.


Opposites
By Eileen Snook

Overworked, overextended, overbooked.

Overweight, overtired, and overlooked.

Overdrawn and overhead.

Overnight I’m sick abed.

Underdog, underpaid, undermined.

Underloved, undermost (that’s underlined).

Undervalued and underestimated.

Undersigned,

I.M. Underrated
Don’t Want To Say Goodbye
By Asha Cook
I remember the times when you were there for me.

Through my many tears you helped me really see

that you were always there for me.

You stood close to me like a friend, there for me

until the end.

I will never forget you and the things

you helped me through.

My inspiration is you.

You were always there when I needed you.

I now will always have great memories of you

You would ask me, "How are you doing?"

I would say I'm fine

as tears start to form in my eyes.

You always knew that I was really not fine.

You are someone I want to be like.

I found out who that person is; that person is you.

I hope that you remember me through your days.

You have touched my heart in so many ways.

I look up to you and I see a ray of sunshine

shining in on me.

I knew God sent me one of his angels

when he sent you to me.

You help me through it all,

coming to save me every time I fall.


If I could say one word, that wouldn't

tell it all.

I am so happy to have you with me.

You helped me to really see what I couldn't see.

You helped me to find the real me.

You turned me into the beautiful person

I was meant to be.

If I say goodbye to you, I will just fall apart

because you have always been in my heart.

I don't want to lose you.

You care about me and I care about you too.

I remember the day I first met you and you met me.

It was like it was really meant to be.

You are someone I hold close to my heart.

There I know that we will never be apart.

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