Poetry Break: "Final Exam"
Final Test
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Time for another Poetry Break. I wrote this one between 5:30 and 6:30 this morning:
Well, one can hope . . .If time be better teacher than the rest,Final Exam
I need an explanation to explain
Precisely why that final taxing test
Should have to cause such overtaxing pain.
That final is a killer, so I'm told --
No student ever makes it out alive.
I'd rather take the test when I get old,
But don't know when my test-date will arrive.
Yet if I only knew the testing place,
I'd try to stay so very far away
So as to never ever show my face
For testing on that very fateful day.
And once that final test date were surpassed,
I'd live because that final test were passed.
I suppose I should add that I was inspired by some words from Hector Berlioz:
Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately it kills all its pupils.The quote is one of the twenty-three quotes offered by my old Baylor professor of history, James Vardaman, in the presentation of his that I posted a couple of weeks back.
Labels: Humor, Poetry Break
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:38 AM
4 comments
4 Comments:
Very nice. I'm trying to imagine what mood you were in when you found yourself contemplating mortality. At least I know this: you contemplate mortality in iambic pentameter.
Yet if I only knew the testing place,
I'd try to stay so very far away
So as to never ever show my face
For testing on that very fateful day.
But as you well know:
The testing place is every place on earth;
And tho' you run, the Proctor you will find.
We cross a gate into this world at birth;
the laws of life and death are ties that bind.
Also nice, Kevin, but make sure to capitalize that initial "the" in the last line when you take your final exam.
Jeffery Hodges
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Will do. I've forgotten much (and never bothered to learn much) about the rules of poetry.
Well, it's not like it's a matter of life or death . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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