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Nightmare for all
My school desk sitting
Listening, my classmates
Reciting learnings
Quoting sonnets learned
Yesterday 'twas me
Standing, stove beside
Bleating out my heart
Teacher had to like
Today was different
Girls having their turn
They'd memorized well
Shakespeare wasn't liked
Boys're snickering
Teacher couldn't quiet
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Poem request #224 Quadrille by Kim, must be 44 word and use the word "quiet"
I am linked to Kim at dVerse,
my poem is posted at https://dversepoets.com/2025/05/19/quadrille-224-walk-quietly-in-my-dreams/
My poem is posted at
https://www.blenza.com/linkies/links.php?owner=dversepoets&postid=12May2025&meme=12540
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You can click that link and read all of us answering the call to write our Quadrilles and have posted them there with Brenna.
Hi Jim! Welcome back to the Poets Pub! Thanks for sharing your nightmare quadrille, with which I imagine many of us can identify. I remember snickering boys.
ReplyDeletehi jim-- i can actually see and hear this scene playout in my own memories! fun for me-- when it wasn't MY turn to recite. enjoyed!
ReplyDeleteGreat poem, Jim! As a teacher, I can easily related to this scene. Lol!
ReplyDeleteYvette M Calleiro :-)
http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com
Poetry was never a boy's thing....
ReplyDeleteIt's weird really. As boys we wrote all the time but thought of the words as lyrics to imaginary songs, and we were rock stars in waiting.
DeleteThank you, Brud. I was fine on the nursery poems though. You?
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This is a very good poem, Jim!
ReplyDeleteJim, I really like how your line "Bleating out my heart" sticks with me—it feels raw and vulnerable.
ReplyDeletemuch love,
David
SkepticsKaddish.com
Thanks, David. Sorry I'm not returning. Your poem was well written, your format won't let me in, even anonymous. I'm working with my cell phone and lost all my computer sign in ..
DeleteThis was so vivid! not snickering here, that is for sure. well done!
ReplyDeleteReminded me of school. Good one, Jim.
ReplyDeleteClass fun :)
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