Taylor Mali: What teachers make

Click on the link below to see a video of a great poetry performance and an inspiration for teachers, shared with me by the partner of my heart, Daniel.  According to his TED website bio, Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the few people in the world to have no job other than that of poet.  He used to be a teacher.

Taylor Mali: What teachers make | Video on TED.com  

PEOPLE LIKE US by Robert Bly

There are more like us. All over the world
There are confused people, who can't remember
The name of their dog when they wake up, and people
Who love God but can't remember where

He was when they went to sleep. It's
All right. The world cleanses itself this way.
A wrong number occurs to you in the middle
Of the night, you dial it, it rings just in time

To save the house. And the second-story man
Gets the wrong address, where the insomniac lives,
And he's lonely, and they talk, and the thief
Goes back to college. Even in graduate school,

You can wander into the wrong classroom,
And hear great poems lovingly spoken
By the wrong professor. And you find your soul,
And greatness has a defender, and even in death you're safe.

I LOVE THIS POEM, WHICH WAS SHARED WITH ME BY MY FRIEND CHARLES EDWARD.