Caveat: On how to pass the time

Some of my students have learned of my "hobby" of writing poetry. Hence the following exchange.

Setting: Advanced 8th Grade Speaking class.

Teacher: "Are you ready?"

Student: "Please give five more minutes to prepare the answer."

Teacher: "I'm tired of waiting… it's boring when you guys take so long getting ready to answer the question."

Student: "Just do some work. Or write a poem or something."

[daily log: walking, 7km]

Caveat: Quatrain #42

(Poem #239 on new numbering scheme)

A typical Korean rain
will smell just like sea's needs;
but spring we sometimes taste a storm
that reeks of desert's weeds.

– a quatrain in ballad meter.

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