"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Einstein
I noticed on my calendar that today March 14 is Albert Einstein's birthday (b.1879) and immediately thought of the poem below from my cd. So Happy Birthday Einstein. I'm imagining right now that you feel how happy I am that you came to dear Earth! Here's a poem from me to you.
Applause
Popcorn
Bubble wrap
Horses galloping
Fairies tap dancing
Bullets raining down
The interminable tapping of
fingers on lap tops
Thousands of tiny feet
hurrying across wooden floors
to behold gifts on Christmas morn
Grease in my mother’s
electric skillet as chicken rolled in flour browns
Messages from the Divine trying to
penetrate our thick heads.
All of these and more were
born of my imagination while listening to
the patter of raindrops on a lazy Sunday
afternoon.
The mind, imagination’s
playground, offers a myriad of memories and image.
Upon hearing my list, you may
have thought me a bit wacky but you have it too.
Imagination
Regardless of gender, class
or race we’re born with it.
Yet in time, control,
competition and culture squash it.
It’s never fully erased.
It’s never too late to tend
it,
Imagination transports us,
lifts us from the mundane, no lifts the veil from the mundane,
allowing us to see the magic
in each moment.
So make the time to exit the
interstate in your mind and drive down the dirt road of your
imagination.
Who knows, you might stir up
more than dust.
Imagine that.
-Dawn, The Good News Muse
originally written March 5, 2005
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