Category: A Poetic Voice

A sample from Book 4

 Transformative Change
  
 things are done with all good intentions
 there goes
america's lack of education
  
 in the year 2000
 the dumbing down
continued its endless round
 all have lost concern
 going to school
meant...all children had to learn
        
 all have forgotten
it's not easy to teach―
 some are hard to reach
 all have forgotten
teaching's not for pay
 but to help our young
make their own way
  
 over sixty percent
of this destructive wick
 ―those in poverty
couldn't read a single lick
 forty percent of the same
abandoned
 this education game
their reason― 
not at all lame
 their teachers no longer care
 their parents not willing to bear
 ―to graduate
why even dare
 ―passing each grade
wasn't rare
  
 pushing them up
 ―better for a teacher's cup
 to end this sorrow
 a new scenario
for america's tomorrow
 ―more american children
for a faster diploma flow
 president george w bush
offered a texas push
  
 no child left behind
his posted sign
 his slogan and promise
to quickly diminish
  
 too many chiefs
 ―round and round
goes the wreath
 out went― 
competition of the best
 in came
a constant evolving mess
  
 accountability― 
a hypotheses of reality
 failed quite miserably
 this change― 
under bureaucracy's rug
it was swept
  
 parents having a right―
 their child's mind
still behind
 to a new school
they're free to go
 this conceptional insight
 in texas― 
proved right
  
 from 1994 to 1998
58 to 76 percent
 ―third graders
even with their grade-level line
 proved bush's advocate
 improved
school management
  
 america's liberal kite
 ―their dumbing down bite
 wedged their fight
  
 endless control
endless laws
 they sank their claws
getting their way
 no matter
how many unconstitutional flaws
  
 from the right to kill
an unborn child
 mile after mile
idiots gone wild
 without parental intervention
 children can make
their own decision
 straight to the clinic
abortion―right to take life
 the way of hypocrites
their whining fit
  
 young adults under seventeen
 no more driver's license
 wiping out privileges clean
 before age of twenty-one
no more spirits
 consumption undone
still...at eighteen
 for freedom
they can kill...die
 with a machine gun
  
 liberals fighting to prove
 before the age of twenty-one
 not yet fully grown
 young minds
must be given time
  
 every young adult
they demand
 must follow
their every plan
 the diploma-for-ever-young-woman-and-man
 became their cause
 so here it goes
 ―the unseen blow
  
 all those who can
 ―those above the slow-moving clan
 forced to be equal
oh! so simple
 all those
so bright―so smart
 pinned down
with a liberal-halting dart
  
 no child left behind
 grew a different kind of vine
 a simple concept
they could never accept
 complication...their invention
 instead of a parent decision
 more controlling
by every administration
  
 no more higher-order thinking
 our school won't be sinking
  
 federal money
will be our honey
 began the lust
for higher ranking
 now the threats
continued dumping down
 liberals kept
just a new way around
 bush's easy conception
every child will read
 a forced liberal interception
 the department of education
 ―bureaucratic corruption
 forever changed america's direction
  
 instead of increasing the minds of children
 water-down test
we do confess
 our scores
no longer in stress
 teachers with high standard
once forced their students
 moved constantly forward
instead of backward
 with challenging assignments
 single control of their classroom
 instead of individual ways
doing what liberals say
  
 teachers now burned
 ―lower your standards
slow down your pace
 don't make it hard
so all can move forward
 no longer I want to see
 in your records
a failing grade
  
 assignments not turned in
 on a test...comes an f
 on the teacher's back
their fault
 threaten to be sacked
  
 children who struggle
now are lovable
 we don't want to see
 them stumble
or you'll be in trouble
  
 new kind of administration
 teaching― 
now a miserable occupation
  
 now here comes
the liberal bureaucratic climax
 to all this crap
the intelligent...held back
   
 for the mentally challenged
we now clap
 teachers stabbed in the back
no more play  

 at age three
school every day
 gone school-yard recess
 lunch now
a disciplining quest
  
 equalism―liberal fascism
 their hidden sarcasm
 turned bush's
no child left behind
 into an american education crush
  
 their dumbing down scheme
moslem ideology
 lurking behind the screen
thrives
 as american freedoms
slowly die
 leaving all
asking why