tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-135481082012-01-10T14:05:25.350-08:00The poetry contest isn't just for the students....Teachers can participate too! Teachers, post your poems on this ceslteachers weblog.cesl teachershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15907202282490767770noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13548108.post-61885849647432464792007-05-22T11:02:00.000-07:002007-05-22T11:03:06.368-07:00<center><br /><br />TOEFL HAIKU<br /><br />1<br />Peer pressure, panic<br />Go to SIU in June-<br />Choose the correct answer!<br /><br />2<br />April TOEFL class,<br />Listening section blah blah<br />What did the man mean?<br /><br />3<br />outside, spring blossome<br />finish reading section!<br />c, c, c, c, c!<br /><br />4<br />listen to passage<br />about fishing- do NOT write<br />on the answer sheet!<br /><br />5<br />barbeque on porch,<br />neighbors drunk on Friday night<br />long reading section!<br /><br />6 <br />No eating in pool-<br />meaning of “pool” in line 1?<br />Life is a reading question…<br /><br />7 <br />B and D are wrong,<br />A and C are possible,<br />Missing the picnic!<br /><br />8<br />That I am the person whose<br />summer comes to this!<br /><br />9 <br />Native country code,<br />fill in the little circles-<br />slight breeze from window<br /><br />10 <br />what can be inferred,<br />asks question forty seven-<br />brain is at the beach<br /><br />11<br />fishing on boat dock,<br />grammar section on my mind,<br />mosquito on knee<br /><br />12<br />spring smell, flowers’ bloom<br />attract bees- if bee is right,<br />a, c and d must be wrong!<br /><br />13<br />summer impatience<br />heard this example before,<br />neither likes painting!<br /><br />14<br />don’t slow down to fix<br />sandals, race clock, read ev’ry<br />passage- pencils down!<br /><br /></center><br /><br />from the 072 EOT Exhibit<br />-<a href="http://tomleveretts.blogspot.com">Tom Leverett</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13548108-6188584964743246479?l=teacherpoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>cesl teachershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15907202282490767770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13548108.post-1146519208649332072006-05-01T14:28:00.000-07:002006-05-01T14:33:28.666-07:00spring storm<br /> <br />her silence descends on the house<br /> <br />with clouds and darkness<br /> <br />-Kurt Larsen<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13548108-114651920864933207?l=teacherpoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>cesl teachershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15907202282490767770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13548108.post-1128479685416541032005-10-04T19:15:00.000-07:002005-10-04T19:37:10.040-07:00I was a little stumped and I couldn't think of a poem, so a friend suggested that I check out <a href="http://www.magneticpoetry.com/poetgame/mpgpick.htm">this site.</a> I did and I had fun writing <a href="http://www.magneticpoetry.com/poetgame/read.cfm?p=20051004213020">this poem.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">the world</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />t</span>hink<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">h</span>armony<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">e</span>mpty<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">w</span>ater <span style="font-weight:bold;">w</span>aste <span style="font-weight:bold;">w</span>ood<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">o</span>pen<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">r</span>hythm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">l</span>ife<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">d</span>ust<br /><br />~Jessica Montgomerie<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13548108-112847968541654103?l=teacherpoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>cesl teachershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15907202282490767770noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13548108.post-1119542806406034462005-06-23T11:00:00.000-07:002005-06-23T12:27:45.330-07:00Joy (absolutely no intended relation to our fine CESL Staff member - just a one syllable name that rhymes with Illinois)<br /><br />There once was a girl named Joy,<br />Who grew up in Southern Illinois,<br />She was very polite,<br />And sometimes contrite,<br />But was never someone to annoy.<br /><br /><br />Sam<br /><br />There once was a student named Sam,<br />Who his teachers thought was a ham,<br />For he told a good joke,<br />About pigs in a poke,<br />And another 'bout a wolf and a lamb.<br /><br /><br /><br />Colin Robinson, CESL Teacher<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13548108-111954280640603446?l=teacherpoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>cesl teachershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15907202282490767770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13548108.post-1118634200815126242005-06-12T20:38:00.000-07:002005-06-12T21:02:09.806-07:00in class<br /><br />lawn mowers attack<br />listening class their victim<br />please repeat question!<br /><br /><br />between classes<br /><br />cigarette beckons<br />though you said you quit before<br />some fire during break!<br /><br /><br />Monday<br /><br />the pain of hearing <br />sounds that must be translated<br />English is torture!<br /><br /><br />Life<br /><br />Life after CESL<br />a big university<br />classes in English!<br /><br /><br />at the window<br /><br />woods green and friendly<br />calming people walking by<br />nature's boundary<br /><br /><br />at the board<br /><br />a word spelled on board<br />a or e? possibly wrong?<br />dictionary knows...<br /><br />-<a href="http://tomleveretts.blogspot.com">Tom Leverett</a><br /><font size=-1>I've been writing lots of haiku lately...come <a href="http://ahref.blogspot.com">visit!</a></font size><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13548108-111863420081512624?l=teacherpoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>cesl teachershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15907202282490767770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13548108.post-1118343310017289422005-06-09T11:55:00.000-07:002005-06-09T11:55:10.020-07:00<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13548108-111834331001728942?l=teacherpoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>cesl teachershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15907202282490767770noreply@blogger.com0