Get Your Premium Membership

Rhetoric

Words - incite good, evil peace and rage. Words - spoken in hateful tones divide, destroy encouraging ignorance. Words- spoken with temperance grow understanding, foster tolerance. Rhetoric that cannot be revoked - words...

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 11/2/2012 9:08:00 AM
Enjoyed reading your great work this morning ....In the "Bible", it states the tongue is most powerful thing and can't be tamed like a horse can be tamed..Of course, those words come off the tongue and from the mind onto the page..It can be used for good or evil..Sara
Login to Reply
Date: 10/15/2012 1:52:00 PM
cost us many lives,words,great write Ann
Login to Reply
Date: 10/11/2012 1:16:00 PM
History certainly supports your thesis, Ann. Fine Etheree. Thanks for reading my stuff. Love, daver
Login to Reply
Date: 10/1/2012 4:08:00 PM
I really like this one..Enjoyed reading this eve..Sara
Login to Reply
Date: 9/25/2012 10:24:00 PM
Well written Ann. Title caught my eye. Poem kept me interested. Love it.
Login to Reply
Date: 9/21/2012 3:50:00 PM
Oooo...I love this one..very creative!!! And yes that's my dog and his name is "Bugatti"...like the car..he's a year old... All smiles. :)
Login to Reply
Date: 9/20/2012 6:35:00 AM
So well written, Ann! Very insightful... hugs, Jack
Login to Reply
Date: 9/19/2012 2:30:00 AM
lovely
Login to Reply
Date: 9/18/2012 11:58:00 AM
Rhetoric indeed, a powerful expressed poem. I enjoyed reading it,God bless you.Hugs!Vienna
Login to Reply
Date: 9/14/2012 8:01:00 PM
words are so powerful, Ann. You said it all!
Login to Reply
Date: 9/14/2012 3:27:00 PM
How very true. I like this, Ann. Good etheree! Love, Kim
Login to Reply

Book: Shattered Sighs