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Chalk
What would I have learnt without chalk
crude and simple on the wooden board,
the duster on its wooden block raising
fogs of dust snowing on the floor,
covering the master's shoes ,who coughed
as he snapped a new piece before he wrote?
The blackboard creaked as he turned it over
the next class on the back, Lower Fourth
I think, they always followed us
Old Nick preferring them to us.
He taught us maths. resenting every sum.
Like the others he wrote in chalk
and used a black board rubber.
When Autumn term began the board was fresh
with black board paint and difficult to clean,
Old Nick hated it; even more than us,
but we could not learn without the chalk
and with it learnt still less.
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Published 4th Dec 2015
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4th Dec 2015 3:23pm
snapped a new piece before he wrote?
I remember that sound so well. Why is there a question mark?
I remember having to take turns to clean the board and the erasers. Nostalgic write.
I remember that sound so well. Why is there a question mark?
I remember having to take turns to clean the board and the erasers. Nostalgic write.
4th Dec 2015 5:00pm
I see a long question beginning at the first line,it must be carefully recited.Reading poetry is no easier than composing poetry and of the two activities is in my opinion the most difficult and misunderstood and neglected.I read my poems frequently to another poet ,an ideal.I am a singer and see poetry as music my stuff is free verse in all aspects, one has the right to alter the pace of reading and the length of time one devotes to individual words, the same for inflection.
I cannot recall a teacher who did not snap the chalk before writing. After the summer vacation we would return to a newly painted board with a perfectly matt surface ,erasing the early lessons a little more difficult Old Nick was a vicious master, we weren't a particularly bright class.Thanks for calling
I cannot recall a teacher who did not snap the chalk before writing. After the summer vacation we would return to a newly painted board with a perfectly matt surface ,erasing the early lessons a little more difficult Old Nick was a vicious master, we weren't a particularly bright class.Thanks for calling
4th Dec 2015 9:30pm
