A Special Thank You from Dr. Bruno
Teacher Appreciation Week 2020
Poem for Teachers by Board President Robert Bruno
(this poem is also featured in the Daily Herald)
The Courier
Waking early with coffee
Papers still to grade
Emails like morning traffic
Families hunt for shoes that match
Stacked up as toast burns.
Before the bell rings
I arrive on site to find
Students here and there
All eagerly searching for
Their desks, books, screens, and new worlds
Filled with empty space.
I wait for minds to explore
Secrets, like atoms floating
Through history felt
In numbers, signs, songs and prose.
Somebody interrupts, “Yes?”
I say, but no one
Hears over the learning curve
Bending now before my eyes.
Each day ends with hope
Stuffed into heavy backpacks,
Where the kids hide my hard work
Under class notes, for
Archaeologist to find
Later after the last bus
Departs and calls made
When their future is my past.