#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 follow and the thousands that follow me are we connected at all? Dunbar was right #smallpoems
@dogtrax@mastodon.social in the thickness of my umbra truths cast shadows of doubt with each step in the interstices shadow blisters bouncing convergence of understanding as light bends reality before approaching dawn of darkness #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.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 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 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 local, only focal point To ever rock the joint #smallpoems
#edu407 #smallpoems There is No B Writer or A Writer You must simply Be A Writer anyone can grow you know but we interrupted your flow conflating growth and grades watching as motivation fades real quick one gets rubric sick a scale of measure ripping away pleasure leaving learning untouched
#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
#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. 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 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 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
Permanence(s) of performance ephemeral evaporations of obsolescence pedantics lying everywhere litany of language lacking empathy everywhere time to task Gargantuan Openness of Opportunity #smallpoems #edu307