January: Year-day 19

                                        
                                               
January: Year-day 19

Out of "the mouths of babes" come--tinker toys?
Yah!  Pieces themselves they have tried to swallow
or, other, to the wonder of our poise
we thought so solid turned suddenly hollow
by wisdoms beyond what we'd realize
in a thousand trips, of whatever kind,
tangled as we are in winning the prize,
each of us nastily out of his mind.

Thus those born before us, chidren with time,
being younger than time and we are now
(though still quite young as a planet's age goes),
destroy and delight us with their sublime
imaginings, words which/ venerate how
only he who's humble/ transumes and grows.

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