Poetry Ineffable
*** Poetry Ineffable ***
Today I happened to have come upon
a young woman reading her poetry
in a foreign language that I do not know,
but in her softened, intimate tone
her spoken poem
pulled at my imagination,
and strained forth sympathies,
which her voice stirred in my heart —
her phrases sometimes sounded with hesitation
that could be interpreted as bordering
on a tearful confession
…or a cached tale from her experience
intended to share a precautionary warning
that haunts
through its hushed, gentle telling
all best kept in poetry’s deep well,
in that rising music
of composed syllables, to affect
like jewels lustrous
even in beams of subtle light —
quite understood
beyond the particular
words chosen.
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(c) sally young eslinger 6/2023
Thanks be to God
Copyright © Sally Eslinger | Year Posted 2023
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