It's Music!

 

Here’s a confession: I miss writing these blogposts! But somehow things have intensified and there doesn’t seem to be time or space. I could write about giving my San Francisco tour to the 4^thgrade (fun!!) or sharing the next breathtaking passage in my Dickens book (there are many!) or telling the story of my next confusing betrayal (ooh! Juicy!) or tell the story of our new TV (high drama!), but hey, I’m giving the first of my workshop series tomorrow, the ones I’ve been doing since 1976, so I better pass on it all. 

Instead, I’ll feature a 4^thgrade guest writer who spontaneously wrote a poem and gave it to his teacher, who passed it on to me. The kids are afire with poetry and that’s an entry in itself. Meanwhile, check this out:

Music

It seeps through the heart with a mighty ring,

Makes cats purr and choirs sing.

It makes happiness jump wherever it goes,

Makes boys and girls swing to and fro.

It’s in every song,

And many dances.

It’s best by itself with no enhances.

It’s music to your ears,

It’s music to mine,

It makes people smile,

And makes their sun shine.

If you don’t have it, you might lose it,

It’s music I say,

It’s music,

It’s music!

-Aristu Sachdev