Limestone is a funny rock
it’s hard, and rough, and green,
but years of pressure on this stone
make changes most supreme.
Marble appears, quite rough to touch,
but cut and polished bare,
it then becomes most beautiful
of all the rocks we share.
Engravers, then they set to work,
most skilful at their art
and make this stone a record
of the best we hold to heart.
On plaques and gravestones, memories kept,
for all who come to see,
this noble stone will carry forth
mankinds’ long family tree.
Ivor G Davies
Words reside alone in time and space;
Only sentient minds their roots trace.
Etymologists bring accents, forms to the surface;
Lexicographers establish a chronological base.
In dark, library basements, archivists file in database;
In academic institutes, linguists their value appraise.
Calligraphers, Engravers with artistic touch glaze.
Phrases the syntactical bridge brace,
and cultured interlocutor platforms grace.
Idioms the colloquial strains do lace;
Sages their poignant advice encase.
Ethnographers stride where lingua francas interface.
Truisms sculpt a vernacular face;
Politicians their trite maxims raise.
*Obsession Of Killing*
Robbery in a snowy pumpkin patch'
Pumpkins Gone Wild!!
Wateriness of the eyes'
Engravers give mean scary look~
No fingerprints to be found,
Like or resembling autumns doom,
Sign language in every Caucasian shadow~
by;p.d.
(note)
I'm talking about slicing and dicing PUMPKINS...
READ ABOUT THIS POEM...
In shallow waters you still long for your lover,
Beneath the body arrogance there is turmoil,
A pugnacious attitude towards adventure;
To live or let die her passion within the sea:
The ruffled tresses linger onto your anguished face,
Shadow your plight as you move seeking disaster,
Unzipped from the warmth of an engravers cocoon;
You tempt the very soul of the paparazzo.
Destruction maybe the beginning of a new life;
But the path you choose defines you next rebirth.
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