A poem is like a painting - chat

 Sometimes a poem is like a painting

Of a moment and sometimes it is simply

A river of words

And it flows.

From our boats

In which we float we fish

A word about a word and wonder

What is a book about a book

A song about a song

If not a parable.

We teach about teachers

We study the students

We praise with our songs the bards

We learn to listen

From good listeners.

We hope for hope

And wish that the living stay alive

That some will give to the givers

That justice is fair

And at the end of the day

We roll the wheel and wait.