what learning is

pour all the learning you can on me
until it buries me and hides the light
pour out all your words of worldly wisdom
until I cannot hear the whispers,or the wind
pour out facts, equations, theories and thoughts
until there is no room for delight or serendipity
pour out scholarly journals, text books, newspapers
until the print erases the sun, the singing, and smiling
pour out education, elucidation, explication, and explanation
until they -tion, -tion, shun the simple and the obvious answers
pour out a pile of everything everyone needs to memorize, remember
until I have forgotten what it means to wonder, to be curious, to care
pour it out, all of it, and like a glass slipper leave the vessel on the stair
so that the son of a king will find it and fill it with the things that really matter

it may surprise you

under the bed
on the bookshelf
in the attic
hidden treasure
it may amaze you

under a pseudonym
on my mind
inside the heart
hidden treasure
it may surprise you

under white clouds
on a friday
in the spring
hidden treasure
It's May. Surrounds you.

year end

Christmas gone. again
and the New Year begins to shoot its piercing rays
through fog and smog and yesterday.

No more unwrapped gifts
and it's much too soon to guess or ask for next year
though soon enough to give and be.

The snow white cover,
winter's gentle blanket, tucks away the past,
becomes the new and better day.

So Now It's Spring

Fall was in a hurry,
and Winter rushed right by
so now it's Spring, but swiftly so
for Summer's nearly nigh.

hurry! see the Blossoms
quick! catch the Morning Dew
the little Lambs born yesterday
will soon be Ram and Ewe.

hold fast to fleeting Innocence
and Leaves of changing green.
wisely prune the Princess Plant
and train the sapling Queen.

thanks giving

It's thank, thank, thankful day,
with the people you love
. and a pumpkin pie.
oh my!

It's thank, thank, thankful day,
with laughter and love
. and a pecan pie
oh my!

It'd thank, thank, thankful day,
with prayers full of love
. and a cheesecake pie
oh my!

and so much more than turkey