History Lesson, by Frederick Douglass Perry
and if the lessons
are to be taught
then lessons must
first be learned
placed under the burning glass
the convex lens of
trust and patience
and lesson plans must
first be earned
when looking through
the mirrored glass
into the world of
now and when
before the first
becomes the last
and now merges into then
do not speak of limitation
less still of imitation
and clocks and
chains and obligation
rather learn the things
before the was
strikes fire to illuminaton
and take apart the done
to see inside how
things are made
and scrub the things
that aren’t love
into a brightly burnished shine
of adoration working over time
looking trough the half silvered glass
at the present and the past
take care to picture
loving things
moments when
the march of time
was sipped slowly
like the best of life’s wine
BIRD
Poem Copyright
©2005 Frederick Douglass Perry, All Rights Reserrved
