Rooms where knowledge so often chased
We sing and dance we blessed this space
While dressed in satin or linen with lace
Our fears unspoken with faith replaced
We swore to learn with heart and grace
And struggle to list and strive to trace
In trees and plants all flowery race
Our cheerful tones and serious face
Rooms where past and future apace
Where world is bent upon your case
We closed our eyes to mere retrace
Revive our thoughts in books encased
We yearn to feel its warm embrace
Like embers glow through fireplace
Each time we feel we’re out of place
We gather around like flowers in vase
Form: Mono-rhyme
Posted for Poetics @ dVerse Poets Pub
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There is nothing better than the energy in seeking knowledge… like flowers seeking water.
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I enjoyed seeing these photos of what must have been your school and school friends, Sanaa. Indeed so much knowledge is ‘chased’ in these rooms; and past does meet future in the presence of now!
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How nice to read your poem written from the student’s perspective! “Our fears unspoken with faith replaced” – what a wonderful thing when this happens. I enjoyed the enthusiasm and youth I felt in your words.
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I like “we sing and dance. We blessed this space.”
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Those rooms where hopefully our love for learning is discovered and cherished!
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Rooms of knowledge. Love this.
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I like your blast from the past, Sanaa. It’s fun to revisit old times with old friends. xoxo
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And these classrooms are just the beginning of our learning, aren’t they!
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PS: Yes they’re 😀
I appreciate the photos Sanaa ~ How lovely to revisit and recall the places where learning and friendship had taken place ~ I specially admire this part:
Each time we feel we’re out of place
We gather around like flowers in vase
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This poem sings and dance.
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I enjoyed your school pictures. Great memories.
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Nostalgic!
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“We yearn to feel its warm embrace”…the line makes me long for those blessed days…love the mono-rhyme…
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Nicely done. My favourite part is the first 2 lines of your final stanza.
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the youth of the classroom…..when we had but to learn and live. That magical time of being an adult but not….
the classroom sees such joy, such commitment. Flowers sipping water to nourish their souls.
Lovely write — and enjoyed the photos too. Thanks for sharing those….I’m assuming they are personal?
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PS: Oh yes! It’s me there 😀
These are my favorite sections:
“We closed our eyes to mere retrace
Revive our thoughts in books encased”
“Each time we feel we’re out of place
We gather around like flowers in vase”
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Delightful!
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This is wonderfully evocative of those classrooms where we spend so much of our time especially if we have been a teacher too!
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Poetic skills in evidence in your classroom – the whole thing with only one rhyme is amazing!
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The way you use your rhymes, the same rhymes, over and throughout your pieces- is so graceful and flowing. Like a delicate lace.
Very few poets can achieve this venerable style which you do so well.
Randy
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Such vital events of our lives happen in our schoolrooms.
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