Testing Adaptable Minds

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Terence George Craddock

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it is easy for those
who sit safe in routines
to claim competence

it is easy for older minds
to claim acquired wisdom safe
in their accumulated knowledge

but it is teaching demands
typical of new skills needed
which best tests adaptable minds

Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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Terence George Craddock

Monday, October 12, 2015

Topic(s) of this poem: wisdom

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Complete version of the split images 'Safe In Regular Routines: Comfort Claiming Competence', 'Skilled Safe In Routines', 'Wisdom Written Into Insight Applied Decisions', 'Wisdom Written Into Insight Applied Decisions' and 'Change Adaptable Minds', by the poet Terence George Craddock. Written in October 2015 on the 8.10.2015.

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Mihaela Pirjol 14 October 2015

There is so much truth in that last stanza...very well said, indeed.

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