“I learn by going where I have to go.”
—Theodore Roethke, “The Waking,” 1953

The people draw together in their rhythm,
Our steps making a music and a beat—
Cadences that gather fully with them
To constitute a poem when we meet.

The forces of our union create space
Where seekers crave the truth of what we know;
And in our communion, in our place
For finding what it takes to make it so.

“Does beauty heal?” “Does order give us peace?”
Where lies the proof of what we all believe?
Art embraces science without cease
As by design, our ideals interweave.

Together in our questing, we find more
To illustrate the making of our days
And in the light that we came looking for
The strength that guides the finding of our ways.

—Marga Rose Hancock, Hon. AIA
AIA Poet Laureate

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