Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Poetic Qualities

Is there a tune more happy
than a daughter’s windchime laugh?  
A silence more crushing
than her rolling tear?  
Is there a breeze more cooling
than a son’s slumbered sigh?  
A thought more awesome
than the question that he asks?  
And is there a truer joy
when I am the clown? 
Shame when I accuse and rage? 
Peace when I pull up the sheet?  
Pride when I strike the flint? 
I made these kids
and I make these kids.  
And they make me.

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