Gratitude To Old Teachers Poem by Robert Bly

Who is down there but our old teachers? Water that once could take no human weight- We were students then- holds up our feet, And goes on ahead of us for a mile. Respect and gratefulness.. for old teachers. tony

Thanks for placing on record, your tribute to your former teachers. A frozen lake is followed by these lines of he poems: We place our feet where they have never been. Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness