April Language Poems

The philosophy
of language
its essence
rephrased 

The alpha
and beta
unknown
without names

All dialects
freeing
the sound
of the ink

Without words
and their meaning
could
— we ever think

(Villanova University: April, 2024)

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What a strange word is mnemonic
far easier to say than to write or spell!
It sound like a disease or nonsense incensed to mislead
But after you...

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April, by the pond
two old men debating the
nature of haiku

© Gail Foster 17th April 2023...

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Do your fingers ever write faster
Than your brain thinks of the words?
You discover incomplete sentences
That do not mean what you thought.
You find that you’ve omitted...

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Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems

The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990...

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Fluent in the language of silence
Where the moon talks about her fears
On an empty dark night without stars
to keep her company surrounded by dark shrouds...

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shines a face from faraway past - twinkling eyes,
 softest smile, silky hair ....
 a stylish hat, gorgeous shoes, even a glittering pendant.
 so perfect...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Library doors open in an up draft of promise
I saunter past screens of computer mayhem
        to book shelves...

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A for April not
For C June as what?
To May B(e) fit...

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If Man 

could ever learn the language of harmony 
 
that nature is speaking 

he 

would never feel the need for the tongue 

of ruinous...

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Quietly streaming
through the breath of dreams
in clouds
the whispers came
in colors from scarlet to midnight
with secrets known in our deepest places
where sacred words
disappear in measureless time

Words...

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How dependent are we on language,
  for the expansion of our minds

Each word a crucial building block,
  an archetype sublime

Can we think outside...

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Today there's a War of the Words going on
  Today there's a War of the Words.

It's taking place all over this beautiful land of...

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I like the Light on the water.
I like the Light on the snow.

I like the Light in the hollow.
I like the Light through the fog.

I...

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