welcome to me,
in advance,
I thank thee

I am an abecedarian
a newbie,
learning the letters of the alphabet;
the green shoot,
a beginner beginning,
in any field of learning,
but stepping out here
so carefully
in the minefield
of poetic works

but here I find muy self
at your disposal,
hoping that my rearrangement
of our common letters shall
make uncommon sounds,
pleasing all thy senses,
as your essays, do mine

glory and bravery are
for the battlefield

around this table,
I hope to share but
courage and compassion,
battlefield traits as well

glory, none sought,
bravery, some but,
only to be to mine own self, true,

but
courage to dispossess my inner self,
and you, with com-passion,
meeting a welcome reception

these from within,
I conjure and summon
and with these,
bid you peace

of what I shall compose,
are paths yet to be found
on no map plotted or recorded,
but this I speak with utmost surety,
of thee I will surely sing