A to Z Poetry - I learned

Josephine Wall

I learned

I learned to fly 

sitting on a swing, 

pumping my legs 

until I touched the sky.

I learned to read 

books filled with 

rhyme and reason,

sitting on my daddy’s knee

I learned to sigh 

reading romantic novels 

full of tragic heroines and muscular gentlemen 

who filled their lives.

I learned to laugh 
in a house full of love, 
and dance and sing
along with the phonograph

I learned to live

as life is quite fragile

and you never know

 when it is going to end.