Teachers Day 2024: 20 Best Poems To Honour Your Teachers

Here are 20 Teachers' day poems to convey your love and admiration for your teachers!

By Sneha Ghorai Updated September 03, 2024 8:44 PM

Teachers Day 2024: 20 Best Poems To Honour Your Teachers

We are all set to celebrate Teachers’ Day on September 5. On this special occasion, dedicate these poems to your beloved teachers. After our parents, teachers shape our lives and make us who we are today, so it’s important to honour them and reflect on the impact teachers have on our lives. Let’s express our heartfelt appreciation for their support with these Teachers’ Day poems.

Best Teachers Day Poems

1. Rainbow Teacher By Joanna Fuchs

A good teacher is a brilliant light,

illuminating the prism of life,

revealing to students a rainbow of possibilities.

2. A Teacher for All Seasons By Joanna Fuchs

A teacher is like Spring, Who nurtures new green sprouts, Encourages and leads them, Whenever they have doubts.

A teacher is like Summer, Whose sunny temperament Makes studying a pleasure, Preventing discontent.

A teacher is like Fall, With methods crisp and clear, Lessons of bright colours And a happy atmosphere.

A teacher is like Winter, While it’s snowing hard outside, Keeping students comfortable, As a warm and helpful guide.

Teacher, you do all these things, With a pleasant attitude; You’re a teacher for all seasons, And you have my gratitude!

3. My Teacher, My Friend By Anonymous

My teacher, my friend, you’re always there, With knowledge and wisdom you always share. You help me grow, you help me learn, For your guidance, my heart does yearn.

You are the reason I stand so tall, With you, I’ll never fall. Thank you, teacher, for all you do, My respect and love are always for you.

4. The Heart of a Teacher By Paula J. Fox

The child arrives like a mystery box, With puzzle pieces inside. Some of the pieces are broken or missing, And others just seem to hide.

But the heart of a teacher can sort them out, And help the child to see The potential for greatness he has within,

A picture of what he can be.

Her goal isn’t just to teach knowledge By filling the box with more parts. It’s putting the pieces together And creating a work of art.

5. A Teacher’s Love By Anonymous

A teacher’s love is endless, It grows with every day. It shapes the hearts and minds of all In a gentle, caring way.

Your love has made a difference, In everything I do. Thank you, dearest teacher, For being kind and true.

6. Favorite Teacher By Anonymous

Thank you, favourite teacher, for acting like a friend, and taking time to show me, Lessons hard to comprehend.

Thank you for your caring, And lots of other stuff; For all the things you gave me, I can’t thank you enough.

7. Teachers By Kevin William Huff

Teachers Paint their minds And guide their thoughts Share their achievements And advise their faults

Inspire a love Of knowledge and truth As you light the path Which leads our youth

For Our future brightens With each lesson you teach Each smile you lengthen Each goal you help reach

For the dawn of each poet, Each philosopher and king Begins with a Teacher And the wisdom they bring.

8. From Reading and Writing to Math and Language Skills By Anonymous

To letters and numbers, with shapes and fun

None of this would be possible if it wasn’t for a certain one

They give their time, so selfless and free

Thank you for all you’ve done

And for sharing your knowledge and time with me.

9. Why God Made Teachers By Kevin William Huff

When God created teachers,

He gave us special friends

To help us understand His world

And truly comprehend

The beauty and the wonder

Of everything we see,

And become a better person

With each discovery.

When God created teachers,

He gave us special guides

To show us ways in which to grow

So we can all decide

How to live and how to do

What’s right instead of wrong,

To lead us so that we can lead

And learn how to be strong.

Why God created teachers,

In His wisdom and His grace,

Was to help us learn to make our world

A better and wiser place.

10. Ode to Educators By Jovial Jane

Oh, teachers, you’re the stars so bright,
Guiding us through both day and night.
With endless facts and stories to share,
You lead with compassion, showing you care.

Quirky tales and riddles galore,
In your classrooms, learning’s never a bore.
You make us laugh, you make us think,
Raising us up with each joyful wink.

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11. Thanks for Showing Me the Light By Felicity Luckey

Thank you teacher

You’re so kind

You gave me joy

And peace of mind

You helped me dream

You gave me hope

You taught me so

I would not mope

You gave me strength

So I can see

A future that

Belongs to me

A future that

Looks really bright

Thanks for showing

Me the Light.

12. Thank You for Bringing Out the Best in Me By Anonymous
You bring out the best in others
You brought out the best in me
The results of all your efforts
I hope are plain to see
Your care and your dedication
Always shines right through
So teacher with my heart and soul
I want to say thank you.

13. Fine Teacher By Joanna Fuchs

Teacher, teacher, you’re so fine
I’m really blessed that you are mine.
I’m happy when I come to school,
Because you’re fun, and you’re so cool.

I need to learn, but very few
Can make me want to, like you do!

14. The Teacher Gets A+ By Joanna Fuchs
I look forward to your class
When I come to school.
You’re an awesome teacher;
I think you’re very cool.
You’re smart, fair and friendly;
You’re helping all of us.
And if I got to grade you,
From me, you’d get A+.

15. Number One Teacher By Joanna Fuchs
(Name of teacher),
I’m happy that you’re my teacher;
I enjoy each lesson you teach.
As my role model you inspire me
To dream and to work and to reach.

With your kindness you get my attention;
Every day you are planting a seed
Of curiosity and motivation
To know and to grow and succeed.

You help me fulfill my potential;
I’m thankful for all that you’ve done.
I admire you each day, and I just want to say,
As a teacher, you’re number one!

16. Raising Their Hands By Julia Lisella

Sometimes I dream about my students, the pink of their palms

red and raw.

One student, seven feet tall, his long back

hunched over the desk,

his arm out and above him

he could be waving

or stopping a train.

Another student wears eyeliner for the stage.

She bends from the ribs

her body forming a tiny “c,”

her hand up sudden as a whitecap.

Some days they frighten me.

Put your hands down, I tell them. Shout. Explode. Scream it.

Instead they look at me and smile

the way they would at foreigners who don’t speak

the language.

That’s how they’ve trained me.

Now I wait until I see a scatter of fingers

and then I choose —

Yes, your palm, your hand,

your arched spine,

you with your idea,

Speak.

17. If I could teach you, teacher By Joanna Fuchs

If I could teach you, teacher,

I’d teach you how much more
you have accomplished
than you think you have.
I’d show you the seeds
you planted years ago
that are now coming into bloom.
I’d reveal to you the young minds
that have expanded under your care,
the hearts that are serving others
because they had you as a role model.
If I could teach you, teacher,
I’d show you the positive effect
you have had on me and my life.
Your homework is
to know your value to the world,
to acknowledge it, to believe it.
Thank you, teacher.

18. Lessons of Another Kind By Leslie Owen Wilson

I came to teach,

To see what I could find

Inside my students’ deeper selves.

I came to try and open minds

Before they were seamed shut.

I came to channel passages,

Hoping to connect hearts to heads

And hands.

I came to entreat,

To coax ennobled thoughts,

Ideals, and love of self and others.

I thought that this must come from inside out

Into the essence of their beings,

Into relationships,

As connections to words and deeds,

And pedagogic styles.

I came to probe,

And sometimes poke,

To make them think,

And laugh

At small and narrowed views.

For I wanted them to see,

With their own eyes,

Beyond the limitations of closed perceptions

Into the beauty and the pain of others’ views.

I came to teach,

But learned instead

That they had just as much

To say to me.

Their lessons were often raw,

Sometimes unformed and yet complex.

I came to give and yet was given.

For through their gifts I saw anew

That I must learn to guard against complacency, conclusions,

And the allure of too soon ends.

I came to grow,

Unknowingly

To shed my false, new scholar’s skin

And metamorphose

Into to something new

And strange –

Something far beyond the shadows of my old instructive self.

I came to teach but was changed in other ways,

And now remember that life is still a two way street.

These were lessons

I needed to commit to memory, again.

Perhaps it is enough to say, I came to teach but learned instead.

19. What Teachers Make By Taylor Mali

He says the problem with teachers is

What’s a kid going to learn

from someone who decided his best option in life

was to become a teacher?

He reminds the other dinner guests that it’s true

what they say about teachers:

Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.

I decide to bite my tongue instead of his

and resist the temptation to remind the dinner guests

that it’s also true what they say about lawyers.

Because we’re eating, after all, and this is polite conversation.

I mean, you’re a teacher, Taylor.

Be honest. What do you make?

And I wish he hadn’t done that— asked me to be honest–

because, you see, I have this policy about honesty and ass-‐kicking:

if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

You want to know what I make?

I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.

I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor

and an A-‐ feel like a slap in the face.

How dare you waste my time

with anything less than your very best.

I make kids sit through 40 minutes of study hall

in absolute silence. No, you may not work in groups.

No, you may not ask a question.

Why won’t I let you go to the bathroom?

Because you’re bored.

And you don’t really have to go to the bathroom, do you?

I make parents tremble in fear when I call home:

Hi. This is Mr. Mali. I hope I haven’t called at a bad time,

I just wanted to talk to you about something your son said today.

To the biggest bully in the grade, he said,

“Leave the kid alone. I still cry sometimes, don’t you?

It’s no big deal.”

And that was noblest act of courage I have ever seen.

I make parents see their children for who they are

and what they can be.

You want to know what I make? I make kids wonder,

I make them question.

I make them criticize.

I make them apologize and mean it.

I make them write.

I make them read, read, read.

I make them spell definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful

over and over and over again until they will never misspell

either one of those words again.

I make them show all their work in math

and hide it on their final drafts in English.

I make them understand that if you’ve got this,

then you follow this,

and if someone ever tries to judge you

by what you make, you give them this.

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true:

Teachers make a goddamn difference! Now what about you?

20. A Teacher’s Hand By Anonymous

A teacher’s hand guides with care, Leading us to places rare. In knowledge, we find our way, Growing wiser every day.

A teacher’s heart is full of love, Blessed with patience from above. In their hands, our future lies, As we reach for the skies.

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First Published: September 04, 2024 8:41 PM

Sneha Ghorai

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