Painting or sewing or carving or baking
perhaps at our best when its something we’re making.
casting on needles or molding of clay
to create something new is an offering each day.
Maybe a song or a book or a meal
something that didn’t exist – wasn’t real.
A plumber whose solders make waterways flow,
a teacher whose words guiding which way to go.
A seamstress or tailor who makes it fit right,
a nurse sitting long bedside watch through the night.
Each a creator of something in need
each a combatant of personal greed.
The giving away is what makes the heart grow
we get what we give; so important to know.
To lose oneself for the gain of the other
a nobler cause there will not be another.
To carve, or write, or dig in the soil.
Love effort
of gratitude there – in that toil.
To reach out from within
no amount is too small.
Lose ourselves and we’ve answered the ultimate call.
Just Sifting 
This is incredible and so true, We get what we give. LOVE IT
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Thank you! It’s easy to say but so hard to live up to!
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“To reach out from within
no amount is too small.”
Yes! Great reminder, it does not always have to be something big. Great poem!
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Thank you. That line gave me the most trouble, so your words mean a lot. See? Even few words of affirmation make a huge difference. Thanks again!
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Thank you! That “no amount is too samll” part gave me a lot of trouble, so it is truly gratifying to read your words 🙂
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Get what you give is a great mantra. A good reminder and beautifully crafted.
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Thank you. I am helping out with a knitting retreat this weekend, so the atmosphere is really amenable here to thinking about what is really important in life:)
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Lovely and a perfect thing for me to read today! I really like the line “to reach out from within” and “The giving away is what makes the heart grow we get what we give; so important to know.”
Thanks for this poem today!
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You are welcome! I am helping out with a knitting retreat this weekend, and it is providing good energy and room for thinking about what’s important. That is when the poem came from 🙂
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Loved it! Loved the momentum of your poem.
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Thank you! Momentum! I love that description… Thank you for reading it and letting me know 🙂
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This poem reaches me. It creatively gets across a message that we all need to understand. Your examples from all of the trades and professions reminded me of Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing.”
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Thank you, Paul. I am not familiar with that poem, but I will check it out. After spending this weekend away with a remarkable group of altruistic knitters/crocheters/crafters, I am overwhelmed with their generosity of spirit and the quiet way in which they make the world a better place. That was the genesis from that poem late Friday night.
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♥️♥️♥️
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