Email Poem

Your IP Address: 3.129.216.70
Your Email Address:
To Email Address:
Subject
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
Then: 
The sun rises.
My world is small.
Everything has yet to happen.
One day, I'll go to school and learn important things - 
Like my brothers - 
I wish I was a year older.
I wonder, "who am I?"
The whole wide world teaches me.
There's inside, with mom, and my big brothers - 
And the record player.
The magic transpires when the little platter spins,
And I find my heart. 
It sprouts, sings, flies me to my friends -
John Henry, Ol' Dan Tucker, Clementine, and Puff - 
And pretty waltzes, mom likes them too.
There's outside - where I find peace.
One day, they'll be sorry. 
The morning air, so bright and clear.  
Exotic plants and animals everywhere - all in my backyard - 
The sun shines through sycamore leaves, swinging and swaying in the breeze.
On the ground, light shapes and shadows dance,
Keeping time to a growing me.
Leaves and branches stretch.  
Butterflies, gaily dressed, trace a fascinating path - 
Tour guides to my backyard universe.  
The black and brown bumblebees - 
Scary, fuzzy, fat, and cute.
Below, the earth's wiggling treasures - 
Under rocks, under the dirt. 
Pill bugs, shy and scared.  
Potato bugs in ugly glory.  
Oops, I didn't mean for my shovel to cut that worm!
But it's OK, now there's two.  
Above, the sky - 
How high does it go?  Forever?
Forever, a mystery, forever...
Buttermilk clouds
Look like the beanstalk giant's floor, 
Or maybe the floor of heaven.

God blinks.
Heaven looms.
Everything has happened.
I don't miss the 40-year career -
The late-night phone calls and sixty-hour weeks.
I wonder "who am I?"
I wish I was a year younger.
Nobody has discovered the fountain of youth.
My only hope - a grandchild - 
Don't tell my son.
Now, my grandchildren are the kids I tutor math -
They don't know it.  
Most don't care about triangles or sums.
They're learning who they are.
For them, everything is yet to come.  
I've done, for better or worse, all I can.
Everything has happened.
The world is small.
The sun sets -
Now.
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required