Missing Fun

In an awful mood today

I wish I could go out and play

fly a kite

read a book

sit beside a babbling brook

Testing really has me down

Is it verb or is it noun?

Do we add?  Perhaps subtract?

Can you think in the abstract?

Other teachers bug me, too.

Why don’t they know what to do?

Kids run wildly through the hall

Yet no one wants to make the call

“It’s recess – you should be outside!”

It’s the rule – don’t let it slide!

But most adults just turn away

Don’t try to make the kids obey

Regardless if the rule is there

to keep kids safe – because we care!?

I’m tired of sitting in this room

when all the world is in full bloom

and Earth is warmed by the bright Sun

yep – time to leave and have some fun

Spring break remains some weeks away

How will I make it one more day?

The air is sweet and leisure calls

but I sit stuck in these four walls.

And so I must resign myself

to put all fun up on the shelf

I take a breath

I close my eyes

and dream of golden summer skies.

Quote of the day:     To see the Summer Sky

                                        
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -


                                        True Poems flee.


                                                                              ~Emily Dickinson