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Ben’s Ghost
BEN’S GHOST
The spirit
that graces me
with its passing
has no name.
And stems not
from thoughts and words
though it gathers them up as it flows
but from feeling.
Words Lie
WORDS LIE
Words lie
In a pile like logs
Heaps ordered or untidy
Words lie
Or can be used to do so
(And to be honest often are)
Words lie
Playfully ambivalent
Fallow yet likewise burgeoning
Words lie
With one another wantonly
Following decree or whimsy
Words lie
As they work together to shape
The destiny of each fickle fairy land
Words lie
Ready to construct a cosy warmth
Or for dispatching the odd heretic or two
Words lie
In wait clutching their brief
Keys to justice or injustice
Words lie
Words shape, constrict ideation
Damn and blast unwelcome fact
Words lie
Whispering in our ear
Perhaps all we have in the end
Words lie
Just in case
Just in case
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This was written as a contribution to The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt No. 60.
https://secretkeeper.net/2016/10/24/weekly-writing-challenge-60/
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3-2-1 Quote Me Challenge : Expression
“Tao is obscured by our inadequate understanding, and words are obscured by flowery expressions.”
– Chuang Tzu. (Trans. Lin Yutang)
“The purest expression of fiction is the attempt to create a world, not represent it; thus the creation ought to be more significant than the representation.”
– John Hawkes.
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This post is a response to today’s 3-2-1 Quote Me Challenge, a challenge which was initially set up by A Guy Named Bloke And K9 Doodlepip
I was tagged by willowdot21 to take part in today’s challenge.
So here’s how it works:-
1. Thank the selector: “Thank you, willowdot. 🙂
2. Post two quotes for the challenge of the day, which today is “expression”. See above.
3. Select three fellow posters to take part in this challenge.
The three lucky folk are listed below. There is no obligation though; only those who would like to play need do so. 🙂
Words To Music
It’s a while since we had music. But no more. 😀
Words?
You want words?
Hear and think on.
Awakening is but a breath away.
But staying (t)here …
Now, that’s another matter …
Meantime … (Me in time)
sit back and enjoy …
Talk, it’s only talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers,
Articulate announcements
It’s only talk
Talk, it’s only talk
Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo
It’s only talk
Back talk
Talk talk talk, it’s only talk
Comments, clichés, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat,
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It’s only talk
Cheap talk
Talk, talk, it’s only talk
Debates, discussions
These are words with a D this time
Dialogue, duologue, diatribe,
Dissension, declamation
Double talk, double talk
Talk, talk, it’s all talk
Too much talk
Small talk
Talk that trash
Expressions, editorials, explanations, exclamations, exaggerations
It’s all talk
Elephant talk? Elephant talk? Elephant talk!
Mary Oliver: In Memoriam
MARY OLIVER: IN MEMORIAM
Flesh and bone may decay
Her words, all the thoughts
All the feelings they evoke
Shall remain to nourish us
Spellmeister II
SPELLMEISTER II
Exhausted
Lets go words
Lets go all images
In vivid silence
String quartets
Sprout pirouettes
Free of intent
Dances and teases
Patterns born of chaos
Wavingnweaving
WAVINGNWEAVING
Waving to weavers
While weaving while wondering
Why weave and why why
While weaving while wandering
Wondering, weaving, waving
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This is dedicated to all readers who are also writers, and especially those who may be called – by themselves or by others – poets.
All In All
ALL IN ALL
When all is connected
All is connected
Within without
Above below
Before behind
Behind before
Who dare (not) put
The all in Allah?
For after all
(And before all)
Before behind
Behind before
And besides …
Who would wish
To flee and why?
Meantime who dare decry
Use of any word at all?
View, view and then review
As time goes by
Best review who reviews
And why and how
