The aliens have landed!
It's disgusting, but they're here.
They piloted their flying saucer
through our atmosphere.
They landed like a meteor
engulfed in smoke and flame.
Then out they climbed immersed in slime
and burbled as they came.
Their hands are grey tentacles.
Their heads are weird machines.
Their bodies look like cauliflower
and smell like dead sardines. Their blood is liquid helium.
Their eyes are made of granite.
Their breath exudes the stench of foods
from some unearthly planet.
And if you want to see these
sickly, unattractive creatures,
you'll find them working in your school;
they all got jobs as teachers!
It's disgusting, but they're here.
They piloted their flying saucer
through our atmosphere.
They landed like a meteor
engulfed in smoke and flame.
Then out they climbed immersed in slime
and burbled as they came.
Their hands are grey tentacles.
Their heads are weird machines.
Their bodies look like cauliflower
and smell like dead sardines. Their blood is liquid helium.
Their eyes are made of granite.
Their breath exudes the stench of foods
from some unearthly planet.
And if you want to see these
sickly, unattractive creatures,
you'll find them working in your school;
they all got jobs as teachers!
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Author:
SUDARSHAN (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: January 31st, 2011 12:01
- Comment from author about the poem: It is based upon my experience. Despite being a versatile person, my teacher never encourages/motivates me. It is nepotism that prevails everywhere not only where I study but everywhere in my country. Selection of a teacher is not based on his/her aptitude to teach but on a variety of reasons. I hope you understand my frustration.
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Comments1
Even so....you should not speak so disrespectfully of your teachers. I do not know that it is a requirement of a true teacher to encourage and motivate the student...they should endeavour to teach the the necessary information...some fault lies in the students for the learning, seems to me, some may be motivated, others the opposite; the teacher's job is to teach the material and for that, some cooperation is required from the students as well. The poem is well-written, communicating the vile disgust with your excellently detailed description....and I the reader was repulsed. Your explanation of it, made the piece rather amusing, well-communicating your frustration by your depiction. Excellent! But again, despite their dreadful shortcomings, you still should respect your instructors.
P.S. Is your third stanza a mix of the third and fourth? Judging from your pleasantly consistent use of second line end-rhyming, it appears to be two stanzas jammed together.
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