While enjoying all the festivities at the Minnesota Tourney this weekend at Mystic Lake, longtime player and youth education guru Evan Sachs gave me this. As you can see, Evan's talents are not restricted to the bridge table.
A Paeon of Love
This Bridge, in all its complex waysThe sands of time does mock.Competitors, at every ageIgnore the ticking clock.It's here we shed our adult yearsFor pseudo-mortal strife"Bang,bang--you're dead!" then on we goRestored once more to life.To teach young minds, so keen to startSo masterpoints be earnedWith subdued tone they say to me"It's too much to be learned."And there's the nugget they've unearthedT'was waiting to be foundTheir youthful eyes ahd spotted itJust lying on the ground.If we did nothing but play BridgeUntil our heavenly callIt still would be impossibleFor us to learn it all.This game has given so much to usWe must reciprocateExpose young minds to Bridge's loreBefore it is too late.We'll pass the siren song of BridgeTo youth's receptive heartAnd know, that in the scheme of things,That we have done our part.So point by point I inch alongTo scale that lofty ridgeJust once to view, with all of youThe Majesty of Bridge.
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