The award-winning poetry featured
in one of my previous posts is not mine.
It belongs to my five-year-old son, Tyler, who as you may remember,
entered a kindergarten poetry contest through his school. . . And won third prize! While I was not privy to Tyler’s creative
process as he penned the poem, I was the one to tell him about the prize. His reaction?
“I knew I would win when I wrote that poem. I KNEW it!!!”
While it’s hard to argue with the
cocky self-confidence of a five-year-old, it is just as hard not to admire
it. If only his mom had this kind of
cockiness about her writing.
Here’s Tyler’s poem again (ah, the
wisdom from the mouths of babes):
Once there was a
frog
On a log
With another frog
Tyler told me that the poem is
about friendship. That’s as far from Alienation as you can get. Thank God!
