Sister Joyce Schladweiler Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sister Joyce has been loving and teaching poetry ever since her first Elementary School assignment over half a century ago. She has taught all levels, from clinical Grade 2 to graduate level at Cardinal Stritch College. Presently she is retired, and volunteers for "self-deprived" slow readers. This is real therapy for physical disabilities. Poetry and some tapes have been published since 1988 by the National Library of Poetry. She treasures both the tapes and the awards received. A collection of poetry, hopefully illustrated by a former student-artist is her present project. Sister Schladweiler says, "Success is bringing the BEST and the MOST out of others."

School Daze Heartsick, unto death, Must dedicated teachers be. What negativism, or lies "en masse" In varied forms and shapes, Against schools - American. Are basic reason ever sought? Can a resistant learner Ever be taught? Is blame put >DD>Where blame should be? "Band aids" cure not; So what shall it be? Make our schools, schools; Use radical surgery, if need be. Cut out all, that belongs elsewhere. Make our homes, homes, Cradles of example-teaching; Modeling constantly. Inject back into society, "Old-fashioned" values, Cast out deliberately.

Twister's Sequel Against a "savage," churning, churning sky, A splash of brilliant, sequenced color. Is it a Double I see? Behold "a thing of beauty," seen quite rarely. Noah's bows - twins identical. But - what has gone before? Are ever two alike? Life snuffed out or maimed, animal and human; In number - few or countless, dastardly, In conditions - stared upon in shock. Grotesque, mangled, broken, stiff/cold, charring perchance, Property bashed to smithereens By winds with twisted minds, Slashing - out indiscriminately, At dilapidated hut or shack, Or latest palatial style. Naught of nature left untouched; Before it stole out, unobtrusively, The rainbow!

All poems Copyright © 1996 Sister Joyce Schladweiler. All rights reserved.