Small Poems · Notes

Hey #edu307Fall19 #edu307 I will not be posting my poetry directly into Blackboard. You can find it using the #smallpoems hashtag on my website. I wil

Hey #edu307Fall19 #edu307 I will not be posting my poetry directly into Blackboard. You can find it using the #smallpoems hashtag on my website. I will also syndicate links to poems here to the class feed. https://quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/2019/11/01/smallpoemsdo-poems-exploit-key-as

#smallpoems Do poems exploit key as metaphor Do we view humanity locked behind a door? answers to see knowledge blocked a gate keeper for heedless ans

#smallpoems Do poems exploit key as metaphor Do we view humanity locked behind a door? answers to see knowledge blocked a gate keeper for heedless answer seekers yet what if the key is a tune not sung a sum of melodic parts not a sharp tongue sounds to unlock our hearts #mb

#smallpoems Tonight I strolled into our college dive bar Only to find the graffiti Coated with the invetibale crawl Of concrete and capitalism Incapus

#smallpoems Tonight I strolled into our college dive bar Only to find the graffiti Coated with the invetibale crawl Of concrete and capitalism Incapuslated in my corrupted corner... A comedy night Where performers were the only patrons Saddend to see our castle fall Yet inspired by interlopers I climbed the walls And performed a set. A first in a forgotten p

Ever pull A few nose hairs, So solitary tears Remind you of Life still Living? #smallpoems #mb

Ever pull A few nose hairs, So solitary tears Remind you of Life still Living? #smallpoems #mb

Elipses of thought And queries fall Pages Fail for missing dots or for quotes never closed Needles of Spelless Merwins Truth musicians Kins of knotted

Elipses of thought And queries fall Pages Fail for missing dots or for quotes never closed Needles of Spelless Merwins Truth musicians Kins of knotted Nets Casting knowledge Across an abyss Place my punctuation Oh so carefully So I sail #smallpoems #mb

We are wired for Notification Of danger, passion And pain Gratification of life Under Fate's knife Yet, today Toolsof survival Hijacked for An Emoji s

We are wired for Notification Of danger, passion And pain Gratification of life Under Fate's knife Yet, today Toolsof survival Hijacked for An Emoji smile Marketing tools Creating influential fools While identity sold Using brain wiring so Old #smallpoems

#edu407Sum19 #smallpoems #clmooc on metaphors: https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/540582996731232256 followed by https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/statu

#edu407Sum19 #smallpoems #clmooc on metaphors: https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/540582996731232256 followed by https://twitter.com/jgmac1106/status/540583750699335681 Let our classrooms unfold as museums exhibits exploring futures an archive of learning masterfully framed in carefully carved feedback as teachers and students curate a better tomorrow

Dunbar's number means so little in our networked society or will we collapse on our connections? Do I really only interact with 150 of thousands I fol

Dunbar's number means so little in our networked society or will we collapse on our connections? Do I really only interact with 150 of thousands I follow and the thousands that follow me are we connected at all? Dunbar was right #smallpoems

Three generations gathered at the field with the third coming out in the fourth. Glove raised, sun high Glare of glory, let it Fly. #smallpoems

Three generations gathered at the field with the third coming out in the fourth. Glove raised, sun high Glare of glory, let it Fly. #smallpoems

Quite proud of my young poet Ben who added these #smallpoems to his blog to bring in for poem in a pocket day tomorrow: http://dogzone.jgregorymcverry

Quite proud of my young poet Ben who added these #smallpoems to his blog to bring in for poem in a pocket day tomorrow: http://dogzone.jgregorymcverry.com/content/all/

Glossed eyes Will gone Staring into the next Without looking at all Shaken stance But standing strong. I only see love in those hollowed looks It's ti

Glossed eyes Will gone Staring into the next Without looking at all Shaken stance But standing strong. I only see love in those hollowed looks It's time. Wish for more But I can see. Clearly through tears Our goodbye. Rest well Close those tired eyes For you will always help me See #smallpoems

I can not write poetry about a dog's last days the page stares back blank llike that glossy haze in eyes once So, so Alive. No words will ever Capture

I can not write poetry about a dog's last days the page stares back blank llike that glossy haze in eyes once So, so Alive. No words will ever Capture how Deeply you saw Me. #smallpoems

Forget all the C'of the 21 century We call this community Talk of soft skills Reflection of societal ills Want a woekforce? Right the course Invest in

Forget all the C'of the 21 century We call this community Talk of soft skills Reflection of societal ills Want a woekforce? Right the course Invest in local, only focal point To ever rock the joint #smallpoems

Time steals poetry Not memories lost Emotions shifted Events unfolded Words unfurled meaning Ensconced in History #smallpoems

Time steals poetry Not memories lost Emotions shifted Events unfolded Words unfurled meaning Ensconced in History #smallpoems

#smallpoems Happy stories banal poems pain, heal write, bleed Poetic anesthesia a swipe left of the mind Stare at society through stolen glances, chan

#smallpoems Happy stories banal poems pain, heal write, bleed Poetic anesthesia a swipe left of the mind Stare at society through stolen glances, chances to fancy answers never found in fantasies of forgiveness phonemic foundaries of inquiries unraveling joy and pain healing through poetry

Who is to say No beauty is found In rough edges, a beaury within A geode uncracked No Plato's Cave But a rock Country dumb #smallpoems

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Who is to say No beauty is found In rough edges, a beaury within A geode uncracked No Plato's Cave But a rock Country dumb #smallpoems

#smallpoems I know so little of sports well the rules and game, yes playing the game, no yet I coach and coach well granted I coach when foundations f

#smallpoems I know so little of sports well the rules and game, yes playing the game, no yet I coach and coach well granted I coach when foundations form but basically I get 15 eight year olds to stand in a a line that's my skill. Maybe teaching writing is the same?

#smallpoems "Country Spring" waiting for babies to die shivering bodies, naked blind hovered together same finch, same nest, same tree same destiny. W

#smallpoems "Country Spring" waiting for babies to die shivering bodies, naked blind hovered together same finch, same nest, same tree same destiny. We hope, we cheer, birds die. Parent flies off as predators approach Attack birds cascade through branches bouncing bodies off of twigs we gently place them in the nests mother never returns until next spring.

#smallpoems "Country Nights" Got the strangest phone call of my life last week these things happen after you spend the night aimlessly walking in the

#smallpoems "Country Nights" Got the strangest phone call of my life last week these things happen after you spend the night aimlessly walking in the woods howling to no avail into the wind "Do you have a dog named Eddie" "Yes did you find him" "He was in my barn" "Oh god did he kill all your animals?" "No but he slept with my pig"

"TTQA" #smallpoems #edu307 Don't simply turn questions around take twist and turns shake fists and watch em burn resist the mental cysts of tools that

"TTQA" #smallpoems #edu307 Don't simply turn questions around take twist and turns shake fists and watch em burn resist the mental cysts of tools that prexist truth is kissed when answers missed instead of parroting for favor kick em with a carrot subsist as a contortionist reject extortionist notions BE free an alchemist with a potion search emotion let go