<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367314" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Learning Life's Lessons</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">God grants us the language of love, <br>As every baby knows...<br>A Mother's smile is quite enough<br>As her joy overflows...<br>She need not speak a single word<br>From her own Mother tongue, <br>Such that her baby's heart is stirred<br>Before a song is sung...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She merely looks into those eyes, <br>Her baby on her breast, <br>For that new child to realise<br>The one who loves it best...<br>In time, the Father's eyes are known<br>And they, too, bring delight, <br>The baby learns it's not alone, <br>No matter, day or night...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The baby grows and starts to walk, <br>Legs strengthen with each day...<br>And suddenly, it's learnt to talk<br>And pretty soon, to pray...<br>When School begins, new friends are found, <br>Each one proves quite unique<br>And guardians are all around, <br>Protecting week-by-week...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The years fly by, exams commence, <br>Each child's results are shared...<br>Success on such as this depends, <br>It's wise to be prepared...<br>Where would we be without the facts, <br>The theorems and the rules? <br>Their wisdom guides our daily acts, <br>To spare us being fools...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The adult mind invents new things, <br>Adapting Nature's gifts, <br>That's why we fly in planes with wings<br>As fast speed gently lifts...<br>And why Man walked upon the Moon<br>And why Man walked in space...<br>Such lessons learnt have proved a boon<br>To us, the Human Race...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, March 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367314" data-title="Learning Life's Lessons de Denis Martindale" data-description="God grants us the language of love, As every baby knows... A Mother's smile is quite enough As her joy overflows... She need not speak a single word From her own Mother tongue, Such that her baby's heart is stirred Before a song is sung... She ..."></div> </div> </div>

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