Thirty tired teenagers tell tales to trick,
though tutors toil to train their temporal tubes.
Tellingly, the tardy truanters totally take the teacher’s time.
Technology, Titles, Textbooks, Topics, Theory- Tick.
Trips? Too tense to tolerate.
‘Teamwork! Together!’ they’re told. Terrific!
Tall tales.
Tried to take tests throughout the term; the tables took their tantrums.
To tell: tempers thundered, tactless talking, targets tracked, tasks torn to tatters.
‘Take the time to top-up the tank’ the tabloids told them.
Typical.
‘Thanks’ the throngs of teens thought.
Tell them.
This therapeutic tautogram takes thinking; tempting to tap- too traumatic.
To tell: talent trained, thinking tailored, technique tinkered, troubles tackled.
Tears tidied.
Threadbare, tender-hearted, troopers trudge to teenage tribulations.
Twenty Terms: Tranquil to Tyrant. Thoughtful to Terrifying. Twinkle-eyed to Tired.
Too true.
Terminus.
About the Creator
Joe O’Connor
New Zealander living in London
Teacher of English and History, and sport-lover
Mostly short stories and poems📚
Feel free to be honest- one constructive comment beats a hundred generic ones
Currently writing James The Wonderer
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I have taught overseas and now have college and online work... Telling terrible truths thoughtfully, Teach!