BE OF WORDS
A LITTLE MORE 
CAREFUL THAN ANYTHING....

Poem For Today - January 16, 2014

Primer Lesson

Look out how you use proud words.

When you let proud words go,

it is not easy to call them back.

They wear long boots, hard boots;

they walk off proud;

they can’t hear you calling -

Look out how you use proud words.

                             - Carl Sandburg

© Carl Sandburg: ‘Primer Lesson’ 

from Slabs of the Sunburnt West, 1922 

Top caption is based

on e.e. cummings  words, 

"be of love a little more 

careful than anything

Painting: Vincent Van Gogh,
A Pair of Shoes, 1886