John Lawless Poet Free verse

take my words

Take my words
Gently
As a thorn-crested rose
Beauty
Shielded by doubt
Shivering
In its self-ness
Caress my words
As infants
Seeking
Sustenance
Toddlers
Tumbling
Over one another
Adolescents
Unsure
of their meaning
Challenge my words
That they
May be honed
Matured
Aged
In the silent cellars
Of poetry

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Hilda Greenhough April 29, 2024 at 5:32 PM It has good things to say, it transcends and shape shifts, it questions It answers within the words.

Paul Willason April 28, 2024 at 6:13 AM Spoken as a true practitioner, intimate with the workings of poetry and its relationship with the reader...have followed your advice dear friend, Regards, Paul