They Read, You Read
Who all my readers are
I'll never know
Where my former student are
I'll not know
But some I do know,
tidbits, others a lot more
Basketball players,
now professional.
Big name team,
they've become
big time players
BS degree graduates,
they call me down
in supermarkets
AA degree grads we
might meet at an
auto dealer repair
Attorneys,
from inspiration and ideas
started in my classes,
graduated from prestigious
law schools
Beauty pagent winners,
one Miss USA
Friends and relatives - if and when each other we see
FaceBook friends and readers -- almost every time we meet
I'm proud of them, every one
They are pretty loyal folk,
those who never leave a mark
when they're here
Then when by chance
or by design, we visit
it's a happy meeting
for old time sake and
catching up
And if they don't read
that's alright
I remember anyway
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- Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2019, All Rights Reserved
- I am linked with Sanaa Rizvi in the Imaginary Garden at https://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-tuesday-platform_27.html?showComment=1566884106803&m=1#c7355932696641967926
- After 17 years of Aerospace Engineering work, mostly at NASA Houston, I changed careers. I was a Business Professor and taught mostly Business Law and Entrepreneurship classes for 22 years.
This is such a heartfelt write, Jim 💖💖💖
ReplyDeleteI wonder which of my teachers remember the curly haired, study-a-holic I used to be.
ReplyDeleteA fitting ode to the unknown reader and students past.
ReplyDeleteThe joy you get from such memories is surely well-deserved.
ReplyDeleteI like this, especially the end... yeah, that's all right.
ReplyDeleteThis is something I would have loved in being a teacher. I did teach a bit, but only at university when I was a graduate student... and still it happens that I meet someone somewhere.
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