Teaching in 2020
Second grade was hard enough
The seconds turn into hours
Screens turn to staff as
Students turn their screens on and off
Teaching students slipping out of their chairs at home
Teaches us what we thought we already learned
Too raw is the view into the houses of inner-city youth
Exposed to their reality; my past too.
When the day is over, we rub our burning eyes
We say it is easy when we are pioneers
Fighting our exhaustion and creeping mental instability
Has us fighting our love for our career.
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Swipe! “salty prayers stamped on my lips peel off my sadness like old wallpaper soil your hands on it and taste the bitter sweet oh sometimes it is all that I am sometimes I am more prayer than aim sometimes the stillness will linger in me until there is nothing but white noise and my ears are just waiting for the return of your sweet sweet voice sometimes I am nothing but “if’s” and life a number of bullet points pulling the trigger on me I am merely a glass half full on some days I am so full I am afraid I will drown in my own self I end up cursing the shorelines that I drew for myself just yesterday and sometimes my blood simmers because I cannot scrape off this sadness” - @emma.willows.writing Photocredits to @canva #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry #video #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sadness #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #emmawillowswriting #readpoetry #silverleafpoetry @silverleafpoetry #poemoftheday #spilledink #amthoughts #emergingpoet #art #newcopoetry #communityofpoetry #omypoetry #yourheartbeatsstrong #penguinpoetrynyc #globalagecaption #artlixirspoken @artlixirspoken @penguinpoetrynyc (at Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvJ55xCB0Iy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8cr5thm50uvj
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SPOKEN WORD. TURN THAT SOUND ON. (FULL POEM BELOW.) God is Science is God // @stephanieawmartin Time days on end; moments, smearing across space in dimensional abstract mathematics. Some argue Religion is the Answer to mystery unknown, while others simply Science. I am touched, but never touching; a universe in a single person standing on the rock of this multiverse. God is in these sequences if you believe the doctrine written by three sisters. #stephanieawmartin #poetess #iowacity #emergingwriter #emergingpoet #writepublishing #untwineme #untwinemeusa #herheartsreach #herheartpoetry #artlixirspoken #dtosspoken #standbyyourword #writer #writersofig #poetsofig #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #spokenword #spilledink I stand in #solidarity with my brothers and sisters with #mentalillness. #endthestigma #letstalkaboutmentalhealth (at Iowa City, Iowa)
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The prosperity gospel has exploded in popularity among many Christians Perhaps more fittingly known as the gospel of success where God rewards faith with health and wealth. If you open the Bible and read in context you'll quickly realize that this is FAR from the gospel. Christians aren't to believe in God as a genie to carry out whatever he or she desires but we draw closer to God to understand what He desires for us. The Scripture clearly lays out: For the LOVE of money, (not money, but the love of money) is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. (1 Timonthy 6:10) It's evident to see how this gospel prosperity contradicts this passage here. And this is only one passage out of many. The Prosperity Gospel seems to be birthed from what is mentioned above when Paul declares: I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. This passage gets twisted in so many different ways but when placed in the correct context, it's difficult to make it fit the Prosperity Gospel at all. #poetry #poets #spokenword #Christian #Christianwoman #Christianpoet #ChristianInspiration #art #poetsofinstragram #emergingpoet #wordofgod #misconception #spilledpoetry #poetrycommunity #christianity
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$5 from each ticket goes to SAVEM - a group of veterinarians devoted to rescuing wildlife, currently working on Kangaroo Island. Book via the Facebook Page. #poetryafternoon #poetry #newpoets #emergingpoets #afternoontea #fundraiser #booksforsale #onceandagainbookcafe https://www.instagram.com/p/B7iqqOYD0XF/?igshid=2zjivwvp15jk
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200x200mm Acrylic on canvas “Lifting the Veil” #acrylicpainting #acrylicpouring #pouringcells #fluidart #fluidpainting #fluidartwork #fluidacrylic #abstractart #abstractpainting #abstract #modernart #contemporaryart #emergingartist #emergingpoet #cyotescreations https://www.instagram.com/p/BrjmPE_HW8t/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13vp3eo4dxl2z
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violet's streaks
violet’s streaks
Contributor for Sudden Denouement and Pencliff. Please visit and support these inclusive and welcoming places for writers and readers alike.
on instagram as: grumpygorman
you dropped chewed-gum
brick from helium
hand,
easing throb
of cold compression
hold.
i glared,
toothpick-pried eyes
scared,
while you washed
over-
blurring with
wistful streaks in
dusk’s violet
cheeks.
© Anthony Gorman 2018
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This is love • #emergingpoet #love #balloons #stars #eyes #contemporarypoet #contemporarypoetry #creativewriting #writing #writingpoetry #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #instapoet #poetsociety #poetsofinstagram #bymepoetry #long #excerpt
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Some photos from last Sunday's Slackline Creative Arts Series show at @burdockonbloor. Photos courtesy of the @slacklineseries team. #gregsantos #poetry #poetryreading #slacklinecreativearts #slackline #toronto #emergingpoets #emergingartists #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #burdock #rabbitpunch #emperorssofa (at Burdock)
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Swipe! “salty prayers stamped on my lips peel off my sadness like old wallpaper soil your hands on it and taste the bitter sweet oh sometimes it is all that I am sometimes I am more prayer than aim sometimes the stillness will linger in me until there is nothing but white noise and my ears are just waiting for the return of your sweet sweet voice sometimes I am nothing but “if’s” and life a number of bullet points pulling the trigger on me I am merely a glass half full on some days I am so full I am afraid I will drown in my own self I end up cursing the shorelines that I drew for myself just yesterday and sometimes my blood simmers because I cannot scrape off this sadness” - @emma.willows.writing #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry #video #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sadness #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #emmawillowswriting #readpoetry #silverleafpoetry @silverleafpoetry #poemoftheday #spilledink #amthoughts #emergingpoet #art #newcopoetry #communityofpoetry #omypoetry #yourheartbeatsstrong #penguinpoetrynyc #globalagecaption (at Detmold, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsdDMVAhyx5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nr37y7bks9yi
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Looking forward to getting my hands on a copy at last on Monday at the launch. Note: this a fox, not a wolf. And it's a wood engraving. #friendlystreetpoets #poetry #poetrycommunity #emergingpoets #woodengraving https://www.instagram.com/p/B49-DoZjYjz/?igshid=1op3pvh0ohd8g
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“salty prayers stamped on my lips peel off my sadness like old wallpaper soil your hands on it and taste the bitter sweet oh sometimes it is all that I am sometimes I am more prayer than aim sometimes the stillness will linger in me until there is nothing but white noise and my ears are just waiting for the return of your sweet sweet voice sometimes I am nothing but “if’s” and life a number of bullet points pulling the trigger on me I am merely a glass half full on some days I am so full I am afraid I will drown in my own self I end up cursing the shorelines that I drew for myself just yesterday and sometimes my blood simmers because I cannot scrape off this sadness” - @emma.willows.writing #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry #video #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sadness #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #emmawillowswriting #readpoetry #silverleafpoetry @silverleafpoetry #poemoftheday #spilledink #amthoughts #emergingpoet #art #herwordisgold https://www.instagram.com/p/BqpwS9nFKiL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nsc8qvrxc3is
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sorrow
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sorrow scaled these
endless trees
to shed itself
of me.
sorrow has now grown
so small,
so close
to flying
free.
© Anthony Gorman 2018
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stumbling umber. #umber #stupor #cryptic #nonsense? #poem #poetry #emergingpoet #canadianpoet #undiscoveredpoets #darkpoetry #micropoetry #shortpoem #depressionpoetry #coolnewpoets #uniquepoetry #ottawapoet #poetforhire #writer #ottawawriter #modernpoet #depression #anxiety #loneliness #isolation #youarenotalone #askforhelp
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diffuse #addictionpoetry #concurrentdisorders #grumpygorman #handsinthegarden #emergingwriter #emergingpoet #writerforhire #poetforhire #poem #poetry #poet #undiscoveredpoets #ottawawriter #ottawapoet #darkpoetry #gothicpoetry #depressionpoetry #coolnewpoets #micropoetry #smallpoem #rhyme #depression #anxiety #isolation #lonekiness #youarenitalone #askforhelp
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Moreish. #grumpygorman #handsinthegarden #emergingpoet #canadianpoet #undiscoveredpoets #ottawapoetry #ottawapoets #ottawa #micropoetry #rhyme #art #greed #mefirstmentality #notimeforgood #depressionpoetry #depression #anxiety #trauma #ptsd #youarenotalone #askforhelp
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