I wanted to go out and play
To make the most of my holiday
But it just had to rain today
To ruin my brief time away
Just watch – it will be sunny and not to cool
As soon as I am back at school
Padre
Holiday Rain
School
Return
All is ready, it’s time to go
To the place with learning to bestow
As normality’s return we undergo
Padre
Summer’s End
It is the last day of academic summer, and preparations for school have begun. The care-free days of the long holiday have now, in a single span of 24 hours seen a sea change. Gone is the casual lounging in the garden, and the months of preparation, delivery, and marking are at hand.
School clothes washed – ironed
Schedules checked, papers arranged
Lesson plans reviewed
Final walk in the garden
Academic year begins
Padre
Colleen has challenged us to try our hand at the tanka prose form. She notes, that “We typically write tanka prose in the 5-7-5-7-7 or a s/l/s/l/l five-line syllabic structure. Tanka prose should contain a title. There is one basic requirement in writing tanka prose: one paragraph, and one tanka.”
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