Teachers

Miss Cunningham
We called Miss Chewing Gum
Then there was Miss Rush
She had infant three
And don’t forget it

In Junior school
It was Miss Eccles
Snazzy dresser
Miss Grimes
Mr Lavin and
Miss Downes

Teachers I don’t forget
For when you come to think of it
You spent so much time with them
You could have taken them home
As if they belonged

They were formative
Big influencers
That’s the game
Those first few years
Foundation stones laid down
Their kindness discipline
And humour forms your world

Wherever in the world you go
You come back to these people
And report
And they can give you marks out of ten
And say well done
Or don’t do that again

They are your teachers
Now as then
You ken?

Brian Fahy
31 May 2021