POETRY KITe ANTHOLOGY

Lesson for the day

Be constant like bees
learn a new flower each day by heart.
This practical alchemy
will see you through loveless winters.

Learn rabbit, jackdaw, sheep,
wisdom from chickens,
smiling from dogs.

Through field and forest
learn green.

Learn relaxation of a living kind
a way of walking lightly;
how to keep a soft hold on the pulse of life,
not to make war.

Learn to do sums that work out
fairer than life, and how to
multiply small fishes and crumbs
to feed us all, everyone.

Learn where it is exactly that
mind meets wayward body.
Each day make the point
a little finer, half by half.

Learn without caution,
learn without pride,
reason, rhyme or hope
of gain, accept everything
with abandon.



Dee Rivaz
July 2009

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