warm learning

warm orange of embers

a toddler would reach out and touch

how gratefully received that we learn

and can teach our children

about danger

how sad that we often teach them

about our fears, not real danger

but warm colors and beauty

surrounding us calms us to listen

and sometimes learn the difference

so the error may end without pain

or violence

emotional depths

i’m reading book after book

of play scripts to begin to feel

comfortable writing what

my imagination pictures

but i can find no magic formula

so few scripts lean hard on logic

instead, the moving ones glide

atop emotional connections

that carry me to places within

that i seldom visit on my own