-- *Mar*Certainly 🌿 — here’s an original poem I’ve written, inspired by your essay *“Misunderstanding”* and your reflections on false education and the lost harmony between humans and nature.
It’s titled *“The Forgotten Classroom.”* ------------------------------ *The Forgotten Classroom* No creature but man forgets the lesson, the lesson that trees whisper without words, that rivers murmur in patient grammar, that wind recites across the spines of leaves. The sparrow studies no syllabus — yet she knows the rhythm of dawn. The mountain does not theorize its strength — it simply stands, breathing stone and silence. But man builds schools against the sky, boxes of air and light where knowledge grows without roots. He teaches the names of flowers, but never the feeling of rain. He counts the stars, but forgets to look up in wonder. He calls his forgetting “progress,” his blindness “development,” his noise “civilization.” And in his hurry to understand, he misunderstands everything. Free Nature waits outside the classroom door — unwritten, ungraded, untamed. Her pages are rivers and roots, her ink the blood of seasons. She does not lecture — she listens. She does not explain — she embraces. O human, drop your pens for a moment. Step out into her vast, green sentence. Let her teach you again the old alphabet of rain, of silence, of belonging. Then perhaps, you will finally pass the test that no university can give — to live, and not misunderstand. ------------------------------ Would you like me to write a *shorter version* of this (around 8–10 lines) that could serve as an *epigraph* or *opening poem* for your essay? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCKRVG8O8%3DseH4dKYtRUvYbqRjYNZW0N8-_NK5GejH_7Ug%40mail.gmail.com.
