Poems from taa1542
Secondary English Language Arts teacher, poet and writer of fiction, and founder of Sylmar PASSION, Tom Adams is a lifelong advocate of all things literacy. He earned his BA in English at UCLA in 1980, an MS in Ed Admin in 1993, and an MA in Secondary English Education in 2013. He is most recently published in "Coiled Serpent/Poets arising from the cultural quakes and shifts of Los Angeles" (Tia Chucha Press) and has lived in Simi Valley since 1998.
I tell myself until I believe it
The faces in front of me come to school for a reason
And it aint just cuz their mom gets hit with a...
Longtime residents, not as rare as natives,
Not as rare as the August blue moon,
Blazing twice now in the last three years,
Tend to forget...
Life spans are finite, our days have a limit
Which begs of the game why we’re even in it.
If everything known must come to some end,
What...
She said, stressing the good bones of the frame,
Steering me adeptly past the broken plaster,
The stove’s pilot light that wouldn’t keep...
Walk this grove—not mine, not yours, but ours.
Words, the elements that make up the soil,
Must be plowed and fertile if we want flowers...