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Small Poems

Little poems, gathered over time. Browse posts tagged #smallpoems by type and date.

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2019

110 posts

Greg McVerry

Bite of the Gadfly: A #feldgang poem for #clmooc

Earlier this month I declared the horsefly the antagonist of my #clmooc #feldgang. Naturally I had to do some poetry...so I tried to describe the most annoying thing in my physical world with the most annoying thing in the digital world... horseflies link to recording in case iframe is getting stripped out. The vanity of tabanidae Dive bombing Dipterous Of d

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#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

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#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 grow

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#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

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#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.

Greg McVerry

#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"

Greg McVerry