Poetry Friday and a Tadpole Summer

I liked this poem that came today from Your Daily Poem. It's perfect for the last days of school as students, teachers, and parents take a deep breath on "the tadpole end of this adventure."

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Streamside, May 2010

by Suzanne Comer Bell

Dear Parents,

Forgive us. We’ve been swept away with your children.

We hope to return when school is over …

only, we don’t know exactly when that will be,

for school never ends, really,

and now that this year is finished (or nearly so!),

your child will be handed safely to another one of us—

passed along like raindrops in this cycle of life learning

that we’re all a part of—

we feel so fortunate, so fat-gilled, to have been on

the tadpole end of this adventure, that

we wanted to take a moment,

before the next wave arrives, and

our legs

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