Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts tagged as “poetry”

Profile: Professor Zach Buscher

Mount’s new professor discusses his past and plans for the future 

By Peter Edwards
Observer Contributor

New English faculty at the Mount Zach Buscher hopes to continue to improve on his developmental writing class while also expanding his reach to other core college courses as he spends more time here. 

Since becoming part of Mount Wachusett Community College’s faculty during the summer of 2019, Zach Buscher has made his presence known in the English department by creating an entirely new and intensive writing class. 

Buscher said his work so far with his MWCC students has been “very rewarding,” as he works intensively four days a week with the students in his 097 class that he created. He’s been able to work with students that weren’t quite ready for college level writing classes and by the end of the semesters he claims that “it is some of the best writing I’ve seen.” Considering Buscher has been teaching at Quinsigamond Community College for the last 11 years of his life shows how impressed he has been so far with the students at MWCC. read more

(Archive March 2018) Remembering Bill Nutting

By William A. Lefrancois

Forty-five years of service, of teaching it all;

Four decades of a life, finally a time for it to stall.

Through good times and bad, educating with a will;

Thoroughly passionate in all things, these things were Bill.

Starting back in nineteen seventy-three as a lab tech, and moving forward;

From Technician to Instructor to Professor all ahead toward.

From General Biology to Human Health to Microbiology;

Each course in its turn, all things drenched in biology!

Bill Nutting lived a life of joy and of much pain; read more

(Archive December 2017) Social Relations

A poem by Michael Young | Observer Contributor

Please share
trending thread
hashtag tweet
something sweet.
Be the first
comment post.
Timeline most.
Hack the host.
Accept a friend.
Follow to the end.

Online profile.
Upload your file.
Now click return
not a downturn.
Another meme
on the scene.
Message me
when you see.
I did my best,
“liked” the rest.

(Archive September 2017) Asphalt Apocalypse

By Michele Walsky | Observer Contributor

Aghast, no space in sight!

“BBQ fair,” my carpool squealed in delight

“Cone,” I groaned, circling in plight

Diagonal, sideways, angled, no use

Every spot was taken, it was becoming obtuse

Forget it, I’d say if it wasn’t for class

Good gravy, so jammed, students parked on the grass!

“Hurry”, I prayed, following walkers afar

Instead, they tossed books and grabbed more from their car

Just as hope dipped, we spied a spot

“KIDDING!”

Laughed the bike in its slot

“Motorcycles”, we cursed under our breath read more

(Archive September 2017) Eclipse

By Michael Young | Observer Contributor

A Shadow crossed before the sun,
while some of us have just begun to shine.

We do not need free speech
with flags of hate out in the street to shine.

Have we all lost our way
or just the ability to say the words that shine?

No need to plead or whine.
Just know that it’s the time to shine.

Be prepared to blaze
and cut through all this haze to shine.

It’s what is in your heart
that sets you apart and lets you shine.

(Archive November 2016) The Older One Gets

By Rachel Vargeletis | Observer Contributor

Eyes tend to glisten with a certain, familiar
Shine of regret the older one gets.
Wrinkles tend to cast a deeper, darker shadow
Upon their chagrinned pretense
The older one gets.

“Sorry”s feel empty and
“I love you”s only feel like a way of apologizing.
The sun hurts more than is ever brightens your day,
And suddenly,
You find your feet sore from
The routine
Instead of bouncing in eager leaps across each room,
Craving sand under their seasoned edges
And wet dirt between their wriggling toes,
The older one gets. read more