A Recess for Teacher

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZNjtWATkHzDdioxZ2k_qMe27NYg5TLkKdJKmbFooKWyWN5TDNhyU3Jc-bNPfmoxwFx_KCaXGLBYVsNFTVzaZ8KiG5LgPfC05-pudb2keg3LTF2ZRQwBb7ORmbfoWKQp0NiQJ_0hfhawIy/s1600/bigstock-happy-children-group-in-school-14833940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZNjtWATkHzDdioxZ2k_qMe27NYg5TLkKdJKmbFooKWyWN5TDNhyU3Jc-bNPfmoxwFx_KCaXGLBYVsNFTVzaZ8KiG5LgPfC05-pudb2keg3LTF2ZRQwBb7ORmbfoWKQp0NiQJ_0hfhawIy/s320/bigstock-happy-children-group-in-school-14833940.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Dimpled cheeks and frizzy hair<br />arms in slings and fashion flair.<br />You enter here different but green<br />not knowing what this short life means.<br /><br />A spider's wisp of unknown length<br />ripped away by angels' blink.<br />A ripple, a spark, a falling leaf,<br />transient, short, sadly brief.<br /><br />But as you near my magnetic grasp<br />enticed to seek and excited to gasp<br />we dance with apples and Newtonian stares<br />traipsing like nymphs to Siren's lairs.<br /><br />Learn with me fair children of men<br />come sit on my Socratic rock again<br />inquire to know and settle not<br />life's too short for learning to stop.<br /><br />Rock I shall till life's last bell<br />then carve my stone and wish me well:<br /><br />"She who taught best <br /><br />has finally earned recess."<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIfDS0z3F65bcLyCyBtvORiFwyQpshoeyeY25YKIdvgSuKvuID5KK3PpQ4UVEccYALLfa1zMHoWXLR9QpNSCVryCqefs8_AfyanB0nmZtu0gOOn4YRt3TaiajmjfAL6H3x-HrdY9xxoUJ/s1600/bigstock-Blank-Tombstone-4097540.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIfDS0z3F65bcLyCyBtvORiFwyQpshoeyeY25YKIdvgSuKvuID5KK3PpQ4UVEccYALLfa1zMHoWXLR9QpNSCVryCqefs8_AfyanB0nmZtu0gOOn4YRt3TaiajmjfAL6H3x-HrdY9xxoUJ/s320/bigstock-Blank-Tombstone-4097540.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /><br />- Written on my iPad using Blog Press by Vicki Davis, author, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds<br />Photo Credit: <a href="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/" target="_blank">Big Stock</a>

A Recess for Teacher

Dimpled cheeks and frizzy hair arms in slings and fashion flair. You enter here different but green not knowing what this short life means. ...

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