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Open Poetry #47

Wordlayer

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2011-11-14 02:35 PM

shackles inside you
seizing your thoughts with no way out
a crippling kind of terror
sealing your words like a bricklayer
seals the bricks
for what are words but bricks
of thoughts
each has it own particular place to be
according to the wordlayer's precise expectations
when the shackles work their way inside
and kept the words confined
you begin to have nightmares in the daytime
(would that be daymares?)
if words are kept shackled for long
stunted they will be
no longer a vibrant part of
anything
destined to hobble down squalid
alleys of the mind
n'er contributing to the welfare
and upkeep of the wordlayer
until he mentally drops down in a stoop
hunched over
grasping for his tools -- (not fondling tool fool!)
his words
but the wordlayer
is wordless
and dies the ignoble demise
equivalent to the death of a thousand cuts
©November 10, 2011 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2011-11-14 02:43 PM

for what are words but bricks
of thoughts
each has it own particular place to be
according to the wordlayer's precise expectations

Love this!

Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-11-14 02:46 PM

Thank you Lori.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways ~*~

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