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lil · 3013 days ago · link · · parent · post: POST A SHORT POEM, A PHOTO AND A SONG - Here is mine, "Owls"
You Have to Be Careful Naomi Shihab Nye You have to be careful telling things. Some ears are tunnels. Your words will go in and get lost in the dark. Some ears are flat pans like the miners used Looking for gold. What you say will be washed out with the stones. You look a long time till you find the right ears Till then, there are birds and lamps to be spoken to, A patient cloth rubbing shine in circles, And the slow, gradually growing possibility That when you find such ears, They already know. Song: "You can cry if you want to" - about someone listening with the right ears. Picture: the silence of no picture