I want to create a playroom for her.
I want to create a playroom that never leaves her…
…to begin with, I’d fill her room with colorful toys,
so her grasping gaze sees the beauty in every hue,
and the value of each shade along the spectrum. […]
I want to create a playroom for her.
I want to create a playroom that never leaves her...
...to begin with, I'd fill her room with colorful toys,
so her grasping gaze sees the beauty in every hue,
and the value of each shade along the spectrum.
and - against all the warnings - I'll get her toys
that make nothing but music and all kinds of noise -
because there must be noise, especially in the beginning,
...it's from the noise that we shape our music,
and there's unrestrained glee to be found in a child's cacophony.
and, regardless of her age, may there be plenty of books,
may there be little magical tomes made of cardboard thick pages,
with drawings of dragons and kittens, astronauts and princesses,
and with short, monosyllabic, phrases, that reinforce positivity,
and cast spells across her imagination like a streaking star across the night.
and to compliment such an unabashed and expanding mind,
let there be those toys of pure foolishness and absurd deviations.
whimsical toys that confound the senses and tickle the intuition,
like the toy that ticks down to an arbitrary clock and then explodes
in a hiccupped exclamation of letters, shapes, and expectations.
and let there be paper, lots and tons of paper,
with crayons and chalk that will get everywhere but....,
because, surely, for a child, every surface/every space, is a moment,
and every moment must thus be filled with some kind of expression of exploration,
some kind of declaration that they are living like royalty atop make-believe mountain.
...and finally, to end with, let there be soil, a garden of some kind with seeds at the ready.
so her little hands get dirty as she helps plants that may someday be transplanted,
...because, most of all, it is important for her to know that her playroom
is not trapped in here, and that what we nourish and grow healthy in here
is worth our time and our effort to spread and share out there.
-01/15/15
M. L. Michael
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Every Breath Poetic 