A Poem to Share...

From time to time I receive a newsletter from Jan Phillips, who I think is
Woman Extraordinaire!  Anywho...she sent this incredible poem to my
inbox this morning...it is from her book 'No Ordinary Time.'


If you are going to be my teacher

hone your memory like a razor

so your forgetting is rare

and doesn't overlap with mine.

If you are going to be my teacher

wake up polishing the mirror of your self

so when I sit at your feet, looking up

it is myself I see

my own torch burning and lighting the way.

If you are going to be my teacher

start practicing surgery so you can remove

my cancerous judgments

my deteriorating opinions

my tumors of cynicism and jealousy.

If you are going to be my teacher

take multiple vitamins

for your own intelligence

so you never forget

I am you too.

If you are going to be my teacher

get out your church key and open the can of me

then stand back and make room

for the shower of stars

that will fall your way

each one a question

and you its mark.

Jan Phillips

She has a wonderful website!  :)


Wishing For You a Glorious Spring Day!