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WORDS

Are words without heart more marketing than art?

Is there any assurety my words sit on your lips

with the same joy they sit on mine?

I count on words to keep us all alive.

Or is it false security to believe in such vanity?

I sit quietly, in meek wonder at the power of words

to turn a cheek against a blow, 

or use a laugh to turn aside sorrow.

As I await inspiration words flow.

I wonder how this can be so.

What is life but waiting to know?

What is hope but a quickening of spirit?

What is faith but a breath in and breath out?

What is love but accepting whatever comes about?

Has life any purpose or is it merely aspiration?

Is life simply our imagination?

Without imagination can we survive?

Can any nation?

I wait. 

I breathe.

I accept.

I imagine.

I survive.

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SIGHT UNSEEN

Meaning hides behind the curtain of words

strung on steel spines laid across windows

open to the view of curiosity seekers

walking the borders of meadows

where secrets are held in shallow graves.

I watch their progress across the land

mined with traps of grammar and rhyme,

their trampling feet raising dust to obscure

whatever truths they might find

should their path be more certain, more sure.

Discoveries are few and far between.

They wander and look everywhere but 

where the treasures lie sight unseen.

Makes me wonder why poets write,

what they expect others to glean

from meaning hidden in plain site.

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An Ode to writers’ Critics,By Louise Annarino,3-9-2013

An Ode to Writers’ Critics,By Louise Annarino,March 9,2013

 

Too often

words castigate

instead of illuminate

the disrobing of the soul

by a writer whose purpose

is merely to reveal

an unseen truth.

 

Not enough that we dare

to show skin bared

and broken open

with tortured minds

sharpened to a fine point

by unholy facts of broken glass

we walk upon with bare feet.

 

Unafraid of dirty linen

stained by the blood

of virgins always open

to new truths,writers welcome

with open arms

those who would do harm as easily

as those who do good.

 

Be gentle with writers

in your complaints and admonitions.

So, it is not your position?

Nor your place

to disgrace their efforts,

to scatter their page

with shards of broken thoughts.

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