Monday, July 09, 2012

Sometimes I Know

How many mistakes
does a good learner make?
Is it true that I do
What for me must be true?
I love and complain
Might forget my own name
But when I'm rolling along
I'll sing a fair song
 just before dawn
 it hums and it strums
the rhythm it comes
no mistaking the sound
of being found.
  
love kj

14 comments:

  1. You get to make as many mistakes as you can. They are really "learning opportunities" more than mistakes."

    The writers were right on:
    You gotta make your own kind of music
    Sing your own special song
    Make your own kind of music
    Even if nobody else sings along.

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    1. Oh rob bear: I can hear you singing! I hope you are dancing too!

      I wrote this little poem in ten minutes after midnight when all I could do was let the words have their own say :-)

      Xoxo

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  2. its beautiful kj! both the poem and the illustration - and i loved this line - no mistaking the sound
    of being found.

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    1. Hello hdwk! I am always pleased to hear from you. I wish I could attribute the illustration (unknown) and I wish I could draw and create like that

      Yup, no mistaking home :-) ♥

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    1. What? I only found cars in our scars

      :-)

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  4. :-). Love that last line.xoxo

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  5. To say that I love this and that it came to me at the perfect time...

    Love,
    S

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  6. Yep. I'm needing to be found right about now.
    Time to find myself once again.

    xo

    love,
    lo♥

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  7. You are brilliant. And if a good learner makes lots of mistakes then I, too, am brilliant. :) xoxo

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  8. "Is it true that I do
    What for me must be true?"

    Well, there you go. Objective truth and subjective truth. Are they both true? And how much work should a person be willing to go through to reconcile them? It seems to me that a person is going to be bumping his shins a lot if he doesn't put the two into harmony.

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  9. It's wonderful and refreshing to read a poet who can work rhymes so well!

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