MY STUDENTS ARE MUTE

I am a great English teacher

With an incredible stature

Carrying a well compiled text

Which is nothing but a mere pretext.

I start teaching the lesson loudly

Explain the stories interestingly

Teach grammar and vocabulary analytically

My students listen to them nonchalantly

I describe the phonetics with rounded lips

Talk about morphology with many useful tips

Though I teach everything in great detail

Most of my attempts prove to be futile

Whenever I ask a question, most of my students can’t speak

Their English is undoubtedly very weak

The majority of them can’t read

Though many times I helplessly plead

I don’t know why my students are mute

I call each and every one a brute

After all English is not their mother tongue

It will never be their own tongue

 

Reviews

[Lydia Shutter]

I give anyone who tries to learn to speak and write English as a second language a lot of credit. There are many ins and outs of the grammar and meaning and it is not easy to learn. It must be frustrating for you, as a teacher, to see your students struggling and afraid to answer a question in English. Well written poem. Lydi**

[TL Boehm]

I think it does the brain good to learn another language. You write better in English than many who do call it their mother tongue.

[Coyote Poetry]

Hard to learn another language until we must. I learn to speak German in 3 months and write the language in one year because I lived in the country. I took three years of Spanish in school. When I got to Honduras. In two weeks I learn the language and was the post translator. Kids are just kids. Don't see the future. The sad part in the USA. Few students attempt a new language. I like your thoughts on a important topic. A bi-language student mind is stronger and expand. Thank you for the outstanding poem.
Coyote