Index of Poems:

The Poetry Corner
After a While

Page One
Persistence
I'd Pick More Daisies
If
Only What I Need
Warning

Page Two
The Man In the Glass
As Fall the Leaves
Touch of the Master's Hand
How Do I Love Thee

Page Three
Desiderata

Page Four
Wear Sunscreen

Page Five
The Road Not Taken
The Invitation

Page Six
I've Learned

Page Seven
Your Children

Page Seven

The author of 'Your Children' is the Lebanese poet and philosopher, Kahlil Gibran. His defining work,The Prophet, illustrates and celebrates the beauty and spirituality of life.

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom
said, "Speak to us of Children."

And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so he loves
also the bow that is stable.

Kahlil Gibran
1883 - 1931
Lebanese poet, artist, and philosopher