time proceeds

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2011, ageing, being, doing, emptiness, life, others, publishing, silence, sitting, sower, talking to myself, time, words, writing

 

 

 

                      time         proceeds

                      when young I wrote
                      and searched now I am

                      old and write and sit
                      have I got anywhere

                      have I wasted my life
                      I have not published

                      not attained success
                      but on the way I have

                      touched peoples’ lives
                      with some words and

                      spaces not publishing
                      not recognised is this

                      not magnificent, the
                      silent friend, the sower?

 

 

 

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being & doing & emptiness & life & sitting & writing wormhole: gazing at the night / as my eyes passed the jagged hole / my head disappeared
others wormhole: not yet quite sure / what
publishing wormhole: “I think I’ll have a nice sandwich”
silence & talking to myself wormhole: sight / seeing
time wormhole: Brugges April 2015 – looking lost
words wormhole: addicted / compulsive / identity

 

manifesto

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2010, 4*, invasion, managerialism, OFSTED, performance, performance management, professionalism, seeds, sower, teaching, teaching craft

 

 

 

                    manifesto

teachers used to be respected then
we were semi-autonomous professionals
whose domain was behind the classroom door then
we all became probationers
      probationers need checking
      checking requires measure
      measure can be changed
      and controlled                (with no control-referent)
teachers now never ‘graduate’ but remain
scrutinised their autonomy invaded and subject to
      a Feudal System of management structure
      a Castle of New Improved Education bought to you by… OFSTED
      a Domesday Book of Performance Management and CPD
      and a Harrying of ‘professionalism’

      rather now the sower who
sifts the seeds between thumb and palm
      some falling back to the bag
and flicks them
                 forward in step then
      shoulder-wide – an arc dense spine
      opening fan – placed
laid dug caught splecked
on open earth in ridges

phlp – lp – lap – phlapd

who smiles with the rain
and breathes the blue air
who turns with the wind
and waits with the sun

 

 

 

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managerialism & performance management wormhole: purity
performance wormhole: by default
teaching wormhole: sometimes