Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds, You can't do that when you're flying words. Careful with fire is good advice, we know; Careful with words is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed sometimes fall back dead, But God himself can't kill them once they're said. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BANJO SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR IN HOSPITAL: 2. WAITING by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY THE OLD MAN AND JIM by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MURMURINGS IN A FIELD HOSPITAL by CARL SANDBURG THE LAY OF ST. NICHOLAS by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM DE CUNJAH MAN by JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL |