University Life: Poem

 University Life

At the university, life is not The same as at the municipal city. It has its own life and rhythm. Day-by-day you study, Time-to-time you party. Body language Will help you make new friends from any majors. Body knowledge Will own you your personal wages. Choices, decisions making, Time management, The professional judgement Will teach you social issues. Assessment of any case study Will make you sharper And ‘street smarter.’ You test yourself every day In a classroom and outside it To become a good citizen, With parents’ foundation and academic diploma. Remember your best training years are At the students’ city, the University. This is your beginning and start To get on the road And walk, and work. Walk, and work more, Because the road is endless.

Tomshinsky,@2024

"Ringing the Bell:" Poem

Who said books are only for children?

Open book nights: dig in and smarten.

Reading is free, and not forbitten.

Stream of interesting author reading

Is both loving and lasting.

We will read and cherish for years

Piles of memories that appear;

An old standard for grace, style,

Knowledge file,

Word power mean

Will brain-clean,

When you read from fabulous

From science fiction madness biographies

And imagine, and wonder, and dream,

Busting up self-esteem.

Sometimes, confused by chaotic books,

You dream, imagine, and wonder…

Meantime, endless stories

Like leaves of the trees

Turned orangery gold.

In the north part of the world,

And as crisp chill has entered the air,

Read and share,

Without any fair to be unaware!

Tomshinsky@2024

A Midsummer Night's Moment: Poem

 

"A Midsummer Night’s Moment"

Romance was in the air. In a light cotton dress Lounging in the swing chair Out of the princess distress And reading the press, She decided to relax, From current events, and other facts. The smell of just picked flowers Was giving a headache. Birds and insects were noticeably quiet. When listen in closely, She almost heard the waves. The beachcomber themes, Stocked among the ocean’s dreams, Surrounded by collection of shells, Pieces of sea glass, And wooden box of old letters Contented the mystery’s tracers. Summer leisure – One page at a time for pleasure. The closest neighbors – Lizards and birds. The fewer the words – The more understanding, Except for noisy mosquitoes. Pale light from the windows Was just enough for reading. Summer project got a devotee follower, In the middle of the summer. It was a good start and a promising beginning. The research work became an eye opening.

Tomshinsky@2024

"Scarcity and Abundance": Poem

 

Scarcity and abundance Is a duet of two opposed preferences –

Shortage and overload, An unbalanced road.

Good thinks always come – It is a sum –

In small packages By the trackage’s.

Paucity and scarcity Are signs of rarity.

How to measure the efforts And enjoy the benefits,

By going above and beyond In making differences?

Scarcity and abundance Will take you to a wonderful place.

Is it far away? Is it on my way?

Can I walk or fly? Or at least try,

Going that extra distance For abundance?!

Go above and beyond To get overload!

Go above and beyond

To stay on a racing road!

Tomshinsky@2024

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Main Caboose: Poem

 

"Main Caboose"

She is the one who is every day out

And walk about

Five miles in wild outside

With extraordinary pride,

Caring a huge smile, a truly kind

By starting every day with a clear mind.

She is the Surfside’s sweetheart.

That every day works out extremely hard.

She is the right example,

And very humble,

In the ocean’s boardwalk small community.

She is both sweet and sweaty.

She is the main caboose

That simply wants to refuse

To step down and slow down.

She loves the hometown

And the people that jogging love her back

At the racetrack.

“Hello, Fellow!” –

“Good morning to you!”

“Good morning to you, too,

And the wonderful view.”

Tomshinsky@2024

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Ethical Dilemma

 

Ethical Dilemma

This story brings me to my freshman year at the university. I was taking the ancient Greek civilization course that included its history and culture, and the literature both tragedy and comedy. The auditorium for the lecture course was one of the biggest in size as there were students from the entire Historic-Philological department. The scope of students included future educators, journalists, and librarians. The professor was a good known society woman. She happened to be my dad’s schoolteacher, when he was a boy in a Grammar school. Of course, then she was a young enthusiastic lady, not even married yet, and all little boys adored her.

By the time I entered the local city university, she aged. Perhaps she was in her sixties. In one of the weeks, closer to the end of the semester, she called the attendance. It was a lecture course, and everyone was taking notes, because the professor was going off the textbook into deep case studies. It is always difficult to predict what would be on the final exam. Besides, the subject of the lectures included excited interesting material. Students ask questions and the professor collaborated. On the break after a shot chat, she distributed a signed book entitled “Tais from Aphina’s” as a recommended book to read on the discipline for the course. It was not mandatory, but the professor was not an ordinary person as well. She was this old school professor that you only can dream about having as an educator. After she gave me the book, the professor asked me who is my father and from which family I’m from? For years, it was my huge regret that I could not tell her this simple thing. Why was I cloaked? Why I did? Also, my father looked at me with a question on his face and said that I should not be ashamed of my family roots. At this moment, all I was thinking was that it would create a preferred empathy.

Now, after many years, I can look back on this situation. I started to understand why I might have left conflicted about revealing my family connection to my professor. It is natural to want to be recognized for someone’s own abilities and not to have any assumptions made based on my family background. It is okay to keep certain aspects of personal life private, especially when it comes to academic or professional settings. It is important to be proud of your own accomplishments and let them speak for themselves. After all these years, it looks that I should stop worrying because I made the right decision for myself at that time. I was very young, not even twenty years old yet. Just a teenager with professional dreams and ambitions for the future self to be one day a successful professional woman recognized for what I read, for what I learned and discovered. Today I would give this girl an A+ for being proud of herself. Simply because in life academic knowledge is not everything, because you need to be honest and kind. I can hear the skeptic saying that it is a rare character combination. But do not judge so fast, the world is full of goodwill people, and if you did not get across them is because you were looking in all the wrong places. Here is my open letter from the woman I became in present to the teenage girl from the past: “Sweet girl, it was not that you were not enough, it is your energy and passion… it asks other to rise up, and not everyone is willing to go where they would grow.”

Tomshinsky@2024

Librarian with a Capital 'L'

 

The book available at www.amazon.con, 

www.bn.com, www.walmart.com,

www.xlibris.com

February is a Library Love Month.

Do not forget to get a Library Card

for your local public library!

En Theo: Poem

 "En Theo"

Hmm, what is an enthusiasm?

I assume it should be enthusiastic.

Today, it seems exist the assumptions,

If only you stay optimistic

And follow an obligation

To learn, to challenge, and to liberate,

It will be called enthusiastic.

The ancient Greeks gave us enthusiasm

As 'en theo,' the spirit of ancient Gods and modern faith.

The bone of enthusiasm

Is in childish curiosity to embrace,

Get the energy with a good smile on the face!

Please continue without personal criticism

And hundred percent optimism.

In Greece, students used 'la biblioteka.'

In our times, there is it replica -

The Internet's modern 'technika.'

Science revolution is awakening.

Both enthusiasm and creativity.

Wake up! Please show some activity,

Sensitivity and delivery

With constructive enthusiasm.

We have a choice and flexibility

To improve the ability,

And welcome future full of possibility.

When you believe, you are 'en theo.'

Are you inspired?

Then, go to teach every 'bambino.'

Remember, "You have to believe -

To achieve!"

(Tomshinsky@2024)

Happy February with Love

In the "Great Expectations" Charles Dickens 

wrote about his character that he loved 

against the reason, against the promise,

against peace, against hope, against

happiness, against encouragement that 

could be. It is a very Valentine's Day

statement of love, desire, and hope

for the pathway for a perfect soulmate.

What you will find on your journey that

the more organized and grounded you become, 

the more room there will be for expansion and 

growth in all different parts of your world.

A beautiful face will age and a perfect body

will change, but the beautiful soul will

always be a beautiful soul.