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Fly To The Angels
Little confused
Little weepy
Minutes turn to hours
Hours turn to days
Days turn to weeks
Nothing…
Christmas Gone, New Year Song
Christmas Gone, New Year Song
Christmas is gone
No more songs
No more lights
Oh so bright
No more foods
That were so good
Unwanted pounds
Sneaking all around
Memories dear
I will hold all year.
Now another night
Where some will fight
Others party all night
But I will remain
Sober and sane
I’ll watch the big ball fall
And then I shall shout and call
Happy New Year 2014 to all.
Written by,
Terry Shepherd
12.30.2013
Written by,
Terry Shepherd
Here are a few photos of what I see left of Christmas from within my home.
Fly To The Angels
Little confused
Little weepy
Minutes turn to hours
Hours turn to days
Days turn to weeks
Nothing has changed
Yet all is different
Life is still living
Yet life feels so dead
Thoughts from the past
Are stuck in the head
Nothing I can do
No matter how I try
It’s all up to you
Whether you laugh or you cry
Life has a purpose
But I don’t know what it is
Lying here in bed
Time ticks by slowly
A dying man’s thoughts
Carry him to the end of time
Just waiting for a signal
A time for the change
A time to decide
Whether to cling or fly
Oh winter please hurry
And turn into Spring
Make me whole once again
Let me fly with the angels
And hear them sing.
Written by,
Terry Shepherd
12.30.2013
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Daily Prompt; The New School
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You get to redesign school as we know it from the…
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Teens Who Harm Others
When I was a teen I did the teen things. I wasn’t a terrible brat but still, I was a teen. I…
Daily Prompt; The New School
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You get to redesign school as we know it from the ground up. Will you do away with reading, writing, and arithmetic? What skills and knowledge will your school focus on imparting to young minds?
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Unfortunately in the ending year of 2013, I would have to take away the basics that we learned as a child from being long courses of all year to cutting them in half. The reason being is there is too many other things that youngsters need to be learning.
You see, there are many brilliant and outstanding youth today, but there are also many lost souls, tossed from house to house. Some have never been taught manners, respect or how to love another human being for just simply being human.
Today when we mention love, somewhere sex has been connected to that, and what was once a beautiful way to show someone special how much you loved them; now it has turned into a nasty, pornographic, giggling at the computer screen side-show.
Some youth go strictly after the weak, fragile and lonely ones. They never learned that word respect. Just because they know how to possibly spell it, doesn’t mean they know the definition of it.
Then there is youth who are working so very hard with one or even more part-time jobs, striving to help pay their college education fees. But then there are others who don’t understand the dollar. Some never get that the real way to get money is to work. There are those who believe the cheating way to get money is to rob.
I guess drugs have been around for years. I know they were present when I was in high school. But for me, there was pretty much the fear of God placed in me by my parents that I better never get into drugs.
Now it seems the key is to continually keep finding cheap ways to get thrills. But this has a price included, which may have the word death in it.
So for me, there would still be reading, writing and arithmetic, but I would include at least half the year if not a little more balancing checkbooks. Budgeting classes would be almost as high of a priority as reading. Learning what percentages to save back from a paycheck in order to buy groceries, pay rents, gas, food and clothing. Training for work would not only include college prep classes. It would also include the regular jobs, how to look and represent yourself for a check-out job, or maybe a restaurant job. How to act and work in order to move up in the job.
Another class would be called, The You Inside. This class would be all about how to respect yourself. Teaching youth that they are worthy of existing here on earth. This classroom would have many mirrors in it, full length mirrors. Students would have to stand in front of them and look at themselves repeating positive and motivational sentences that refer to themselves as a person.
I feel today there is much lacking in the learning department. A lot of this is learned in the very young years, but when the home life is not the best or even suitable, many children are not taught that they have the right to be who they want.
In my area, schools are taught to preach about college. Not everyone is going to college. So many youth don’t even know what they want, but it pays the bills for these colleges getting all types in. But the drop out rates are pretty staggering.
So let’s get involved with each and every student. Let’s make sure that the poor as well as the wealthy kids are receiving a chance to be someone they are proud of, no matter what or where they came from. After all, we all started with nothing in the beginning. We all came here the same way. We all arrived with a clean slate. I say, let’s help every single human get the best chance in school to be the best they can be, no matter what.
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