When you listen you reach
into dark corners and
pull out your wonders.
When you listen your
ideas come in and out
like they are waiting in line.
Your ears don't always listen.
It can be your brain, your
fingers, your toes.
You can listen anywhere.
Your mind might not want to go.
If you can listen you can find
answers to questions you didn't know.
If you have listened, truly listened,
you don't find yourself alone.
into dark corners and
pull out your wonders.
When you listen your
ideas come in and out
like they are waiting in line.
Your ears don't always listen.
It can be your brain, your
fingers, your toes.
You can listen anywhere.
Your mind might not want to go.
If you can listen you can find
answers to questions you didn't know.
If you have listened, truly listened,
you don't find yourself alone.
Nick Penna - fifth grade !!!!
From: Poetic Medicine by John Fox
With Thanks to The Beauty We Love
~
Photo - Mystic Meandering
~
What are your gifts - "wonders" - to the world that you could
pull out despite the weariness of existence that we
are experiencing these days with the COVID
hanging around - like a lurker in our lives?
pull out despite the weariness of existence that we
are experiencing these days with the COVID
hanging around - like a lurker in our lives?
An incredibly insightful poem by someone so young. Perhaps the greatest wonder is that anything and anyone exists at all.
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