You Were There, and other poems - 3. Excuse

Powerful words, that have alot of meaning.

Wow, this reaches me on so many levels.  The last two spoke of how some used to cheat -- sometimes in class off of me, sometimes others.  We could not always detect this.

The stares from others -- sometimes this is involuntary, but we can control HOW long we stare.  Some not only stare, but gawk.  Some stare are curiosity; some are hostile or judgmental. 

Wonderful stanzas.

On 5/17/2024 at 8:00 AM, chris191070 said:

Powerful words, that have alot of meaning.

Thanks for reading these brief poems, written by me a long time ago now. I appreciate it, Chris

On 5/17/2024 at 9:16 AM, ReaderPaul said:

Wow, this reaches me on so many levels.  The last two spoke of how some used to cheat -- sometimes in class off of me, sometimes others.  We could not always detect this.

The stares from others -- sometimes this is involuntary, but we can control HOW long we stare.  Some not only stare, but gawk.  Some stare are curiosity; some are hostile or judgmental. 

Wonderful stanzas.

Thanks, ReaderPaul. I can't quite remember the circumstances of No. 7, but it could be from when I worked at Berlitz in Japan. The teacher's room had a small lending library where we lent books to one another for a while. I may have been reading marginalia of another teacher at the same time I glimpsed him looking at scribbles in a book I dropped off there.

Total tangent, but Machida had a fantastic, department-store sized used bookshop. Floor four was entirely foreign language books, and I picked up many interesting things there, like a surprisingly slender (but totally fantastic!) paperback called "The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays." All 37 are discussed, with the printed material the Bard used cited and quoted. Needless to say, it's very informative 

8 hours ago, AC Benus said:

Thanks, ReaderPaul. I can't quite remember the circumstances of No. 7, but it could be from when I worked at Berlitz in Japan. The teacher's room had a small lending library where we lent books to one another for a while. I may have been reading marginalia of another teacher at the same time I glimpsed him looking at scribbles in a book I dropped off there.

Total tangent, but Machida had a fantastic, department-store sized used bookshop. Floor four was entirely foreign language books, and I picked up many interesting things there, like a surprisingly slender (but totally fantastic!) paperback called "The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays." All 37 are discussed, with the printed material the Bard used cited and quoted. Needless to say, it's very informative 

Wow, a department sized bookstore!  I went once to a four-story used bookshop (many years ago) in a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.  Unfortunately, it went out of business a couple years later, as the internet made victims of more and more bookstores.