Tuesday 3 May 2016

I am sailing...






I skippered the Monday boat rather well
tossed out some weighty baggage
and sailed the swelling demands
of lesson pressures and emails
rather well too...

That is
until THE email
popped into my inbox
THE email
that wanted to reconstruct
a future assessment task for Year 8's...

I had spent so long
shuffling the rubrics and
pinging the ultimate topic
that would send little minds into big spins

but THE email wanted to fix the rubrics
at the lowest level

NOT SHOWN
NO relevance to the topic
NO imagination
NO structure
NO grammar

a whole column
of NOthingness...

what to reply
politely
without resorting to
NO grace

Finally I mustered
some dignity...
I believe the ultimate purpose is the topic...
the lowest common denominator must be
some recognition
the writer wrote anything at all...


I skippered the Monday raft rather well
tossed out some weighty baggage
and kept sailing...



Linking to;
Imaginary Garden With Real Toads - The Tuesday Platform



NOTES
This poem intended to be for the recent 'skip' prompt at d'Verse...
The poem intended to be a quadrille - 44 words...
But it morphed into more...
Rubrics - columns headed from HIGH to LOW + explanations in each

7 comments:

brudberg said...

I would say that some emails is nothing but trash...

Björn

Kerry O'Connor said...

I can relate to this all too well. It seems the ship is heading towards mediocrity in the 21st century, undoing centuries of the finest education. Ah, well... there will come a time the ship will sail without me.

Susie Clevenger said...

I can hear your frustration. I hate e-mails some times. Keep your sails high!

Buddah Moskowitz said...

Interesting read - not sure if I understand this, but I like how it feels.

kaykuala said...

tossed out some weighty baggage
and kept sailing...

The right thing to do, Gemma! One should not be saddled with all the 'baggage' of trash not needed but to get on with life!

Hank

Stacie Eirich said...

Oh my how I can relate to such a task -- and yes, keep that boat not only afloat but sailing!! Here's to tossing the baggage and sailing as freely as possible, towards welcoming shores. :-)

Marian said...

Ah, interesting. Not sure if I get this... a dumbing-down of curriculum? In which case, I too would want to sail away.

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