Difficult and important: a tiny little pantoum

[flexagon]

It is difficult and important
to stand on one's hands,
to remember you have something to offer,
to remember that love is a verb.

To stand on one's hands,
to know that gravity is the best toy,
to remember that love is a verb,
that discipline is improvisation backwards.

To know that gravity is the best toy
turns the world into a playground; and
that discipline is improvisation, backwards
from what the adults ever told you.

Comments

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

That's really lovely. I especially like the part about discipline being improvisation backwards.

[flexagon]

Thanks! I'm hoping that some of the hurried stuff I'm churning out this month will turn into rough drafts of better poems, and I like that line too. :)

[nevers.livejournal.com]

oh man, i love a good pontoum!! i'm really enjoying your poetry in general.

[triesticity.livejournal.com]

Yay pantoums! I like this.