Poems about Teaching (Being Young)

This morning one of my ninth grade students
Is showing off her sonogram
With the same excitement and enthusiasm
I used to see in my daughter when she was showing off a new Barbie doll,
With it’s glittering gown and open toed plastic heels.
.
I tilt the image this way and that -
Hypnotized by the light
That dances on and off of the black glossy surface
Just the way it did when I was a kid
Shaking the magic eight ball,
Waiting for a glimpse of the answers
That I knew were going to emerge from the shadows.

© Joe Thompson · www.imaginesongs.com

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