Oct 2014
by Nanao Sakaki
If you have time to chatter
Read books
If you have time to read
Walk into mountain desert and ocean
If you have time to walk
Sing songs and dance
If you have time to dance
Sit quietly, you lucky happy idiot.
Nanao Sakaki
Japan
From Can I Buy a Slice of Sky
Edited by Grace Nichols
Published by Hodder Childrens Books 1996
If you have time to chatter
Read books
If you have time to read
Walk into mountain desert and ocean
If you have time to walk
Sing songs and dance
If you have time to dance
Sit quietly, you lucky happy idiot.
Nanao Sakaki
Japan
From Can I Buy a Slice of Sky
Edited by Grace Nichols
Published by Hodder Childrens Books 1996
This is intended to be included in the collection entitled Cultured Pearls which is to be devoted to poetry by poets other than myself that has had some special meaning for me.
