Arabian Desert Winds

Voices of freedom are echoing in Tunisia
Where the flames of democracy was ignited by a martyr

Tunisians want to be free!

Pyramids of Egypt stand proud in Tahrir Square
Carved into the Dead Sea faces of its people's revolt

Egyptians want to be free!

Last gasps of a Libyan father at a deadly demonstration
While UN bombs avenge his people's aspirations for democracy

Libyans want to be free!

Yemen's civil war is at hand as its dead is infinitely scattered
While tribal fighters converge, democracy waits in tears

Yemenis want to be free!

Syrian legitimacy is at stake by democracy knocking at its door
While mothers dedicate their lives to their slain sons and daughters

Syrians want to be free!

Arab dictators are worried about their hold on power
While desert winds are blowing a paradigm shift their way

Arabs want to be free!

Thinking about Learning

Professional Learning (unedited)

We plod along he education continuum with zest
Our calling a political engagement at best
Where we justify passion as if possessed
Our best intentions in economic sustainability rest

Here where a child of learning borders on boredom
Is nurtured in the latest science of new educational ways
Hoping that the detail of intentions will a better learner make
While their overseers in capitalism's conveyancing partake

Engaging now in industrial aged perceptions of learning
Has yet to see our participating humanity flow
Not following conventions of new curricular at play
There where social control has key competencies as friends

Educators are on the precipice of loosing control
Because learners have access to their fountains
Thus they now educate for social connectedness
As required by our next generation's employable elite.