Teaching
Simple, clear,
concise, profound,
Wisdom as
knowledge fulfilled;
Teaching passes
on a hope,
As our species
passes on our skill.
Skill in
living, a craft, or art;
Wise of mind,
in hand or heart;
Teaching helps
to keep us smart,
In the ways we
seek to learn.
Some do teach
by memory or wrote.
Others teach by
reciting a quote;
One may tell a
story or anecdote;
But all seek to
express a meaning.
Some are
masters, others beginning,
Some are
idealists and others pragmatic;
Some are
sinners and some others are sainted;
Some are boring
and others charismatic.
Experience may
be at the source,
A book or
hearsay, or a greater force.
Tradition,
intuition, whatever
resource;
Teaching is
part of the way of nature.