03.28.11 Genius! Thank You

Following are two poems that William (10 years old) and I wrote, passing the paper back and forth between us.  His prose are in italics.  The depth and emotive connotations of his prose are genius!  Thank you William for sharing yourself with me and thank you for not minding that I post them here.  Your voice is what I look forward to hearing more of.

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A hermit stands in the rain
Listening to sounds of nature
Ignoring the lonely pain
of missed opportunity

Rain drumming relentless,
freely repentless
like the sounds of a parade
through the forest pervade
wrw/clw


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Trees,
Are life forms
without true gorms
except listening


Listening,
to rain repentless
to the rivers
of the forest


Rivers tumbling across
a landscape ever changing
timeless in its essence
one river from beginning to end

Snow,
like sharp cold daggers
piercing through your skin
though soft, but though hard
as the long-frozen rivers
timeless


Seasons changing
from cold to warm
tulip tongues poking through
the frost, not lingering
gives way to sunshine

The salvation of tired and cold and sore
gives their futile attempts closer to the warmth
of the fresh grass bed
o'er mighty rivers and gurgling streams


wrw/clw


I miss you so much, William, and am looking forward to when we can go to the beach again.