what i learned: a sonnet.

in the course of taking a course
there are two ways to learn
the first is to memorize the source
and spit out answers when it's your turn.
the second way, and much preferred
is to welcome into your world, objectively,
the new views, new ideas you've seen and heard
in time adding new sights, new sounds, respectively
so that when arrives the moment to reflect
what a student has learned from a very special subject
it can be hard to capture, summarize and collect
all that's been changed, discovered and its affect.
But if i had to it'd be how to listen before sight,
see beyond hearing, and to create within light.