04/8/13

Words Work

Words, Work © Kim Nelson

Words, Work © Kim Nelson

Words Work

at times
words, work
ooze across the page
darkening reader’s psyche
wrenching guts
and breaking, aching hearts
cathartic
those

but then
words, work
illuminate the page
enlightening, brightening minds
healing wounds
and connecting, resurrecting
cathartic
too

the poet
creates
all

* Shared @ IGwRT
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02/22/13

It Is Written ~ Vehicles of THE WORD

It Is Written ~ Vehicles of THE  WORD

It is Written ~ Vehicles of THE WORD

it is written
on walls of stone, brick, clay
tablets
perhaps ten
commanding attention
consideration
of days when
equanimity, liberty, creativity
were shot/shut down
and voices
drowned
leaving only
walls of stone, brick, clay
tablets
perhaps ten
as vehicles
of The Word

*The inimitable Anna Montgomery prompted this post over at The Bar. Love it!
01/24/13

Parlay

Meeting at The Bar with Anna. She wants us to create. Done.

epsom salts bath
essential oil laced
leaves a body lax, relaxed

coconut-oil
rubbed on limbs
torso
neck
smooths away
day’s detritus
cracks

It is here
in this space
that synapses get to play
the 95% I know before I know now say

use us
make
develop
create
parlay

and I do

01/22/13

Hymn to Designers of Phrase

Sans poets and wordsmiths,
Designers of phrase
Language, people’d
Be all but fenced in

By thoughts and beliefs
Of those pragmatic ones
Whose creative turns
Ne’er did begin

Limited vision
Amblyopic, not fine
With goals held
Tight-in and constrained

Would miss wonders abounding
Just under the nose
As decorum
They aimed to maintain

Dreamers and schemers
Would have no release
No method to share
Grandeur when

Their brilliance required
More than act or display
But a story
With magnificent spin

So sing praise to the lyricist
Hymn to the pen
Engaged not for gain
But for whim

Bless the crazy ones
Rebels, sky writers, square pegs
It is in them
Amazing begins