Eight-line Poems 2

Life Lessons

LIfe Lessons

Life lessons in the classroom of experience
that rigid master of the developing soul
scratching the squeaking words on the dusty chalkboard
and our suffering in rapt silence at learning’s knee.

This was the teacher of old school unbroken
no empty vessel of propaganda barely from her teens
this was the strict icon of discipline and power
to inflict pain and reason on inattentive minds.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 04.27.24
Prompt: Life lessons.