Mind Your Words

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Mind Your Words

They are animals. 
Wild and free when set go, and let go.
Be careful, they will rule and reign and rain…on your parade.

Leave out a common, switch a syllable, run on a sentence, 
be marked down, and published a thousand times…

Best seller?

Words that are outlawed, “go to jail”, oh…that is just a fine!
Small and large symbols ill defined except by context of the event.  
Conquerors change history, politicians change policies,
tearing down forever what they can not control. 
If not by vote, then by edict. 

Speaker of the house, holding the nation hostage as if above the law.
Taking our righteous words on paper and twisting them into new realms of a bad reality.

I want to say something. 
I feel it coming up from somewhere deep inside. 
Utterances of despair, songs without notes of music that can not be heard at all.  
One person, one voice, one letter. The tide the dictionary has been burned. 
The thesaurus has been placed in to jail, having received a life sentence. 

God’s bible, the real Word, whispered, written, shouted and sung…Eternal!

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 10/30/2019 10:10:00 AM

"the thesaurus has been placed in to jail, having received a life sentence." - this is incredibly fun to read!

Ann Foster
Date: 10/31/2019 8:47:00 PM

Your words are important. Thank you. Ann

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 10/30/2019 9:23:00 AM

This one bent my mind like a pretzel. Such a cool poem.

Ann Foster
Date: 10/31/2019 8:48:00 PM

Hehe... I love to bake. Thank you... Hugs. Ann

Mahtab Bangalee

Date: 10/28/2019 1:58:00 AM

God’s bible, the real Word, whispered, written, shouted and sung…Eternal!// written beautifully; yeah; it's need to control the words and let it free on the kingdom of love for all ///

Ann Foster
Date: 10/31/2019 8:50:00 PM

Thank you so much my friend. Have the very nicest day. Ann

Gershon Wolf

Date: 10/27/2019 10:32:00 PM

Wow, Ann! You are on a roll, my friend. This is awesome....No more accurate word than that to describe the groundswell of feeling bursting from the lines of this wondrous write. Slung straight from the heart, whoever was stung---deserves it!... And a fitting conclusion: His Word is Eternal. All else crumbles to dust. Phenomenal, Ann! Blessings, Gershon

Ann Foster
Date: 10/31/2019 8:51:00 PM

Thank you for seeing that clearly. Yes... all the rest is truly dust... Hugs and the best of days to you... always... Ann