Word Play

Words are a very powerful tool, but how the words are used makes them even more powerful... Poetry and Prose are the perfect example.. the shorter the better....

So when I recently read these lines in Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad, they struck a chord...

... a visitation of a magnificent presence, a seeker awaiting a message. A conservation between an acorn, a sapling, and a powerful oak.... Poems are too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world....

Though there is a wide body of work by many poets, including famous Bards and Barons, but this Lady is one of the best.

Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set
Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the
Farmer’s corn
Men eat of it and die

~ Emily Dickinson

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