Poem for Today

WORDS

to Claudia

Words --

Wild words --

Wonderful words!

Words that delight --

Words that inspire.

Words with the might --

Words with the fire.

We who are moved,

We who aspire

To learn and to grow --

We wonder at words.

We are moved by the insight

And touched by the feeling

Of nurturing wonder at

Sounds in the twilight.

Sounds so wild in the roaring

Rambunctious rustling of nature --

Pouring of spirit,

Of man and his time.

Time that is telling

Stories of wonder --

What a vibrant creation

We make with words.

Words tender and caring,

Nurturing and caressing us --

Yet effervescent and exuberant

More buoyant than the clouds above.

Words bouncing boisterous and brawny,

Both brilliant and brainy --

Taunting and teasing thoughts

Out of the corners of our mind.

Words churning our curiosity,

Tugging at the strings of sensation

And memories hidden by layers

Of deeds unrecorded by time.

Time that will move us to act --

We who aspire to learn and to grow

As we find wonder hidden in words --

Leading us on to our own unique goal.

We take the words --

We catch them and use them.

Living and sensing, thinking and feeling,

We make the words our very own.

Understanding the words --

Words brighten our life.

Words then inspire us --

Each in our own time.

Words --

Wild words --

Wonderful words!

- James Henderson - January, 1992