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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448220" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Linguini</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the pronoun prisoner; <br>'I '<br>the letter's very shape<br>is a single bar; <br>many taken together<br>my prison make, <br>IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII<br>all lined up in a single poem-<br>sometimes too many.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We has the 'w'<br>open-ended to the sky<br>posture of the supplicant<br>wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww<br>all together taken<br>are the congregation praying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me has the 'm' all battened down<br>closed to further input<br>and scrutiny-<br>mmmmmmmmmmmmmm<br>reminds me of soldiers<br>off to war; 5th battalion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The'u' in us<br>is my favorite symbol, <br>reminds me of home.<br>uuuuuuuuuuuuu<br>a wonderful image, <br>a fire place, <br>a cord of wood nearby.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each letter I think<br>is part of the art, <br>little sculpture pieces<br>which added up<br>contain meaning<br>transmitted linguistically.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For me, of course, poetically.<br>there's nothing better conjugated<br>than a wonderful poem, <br>given and received.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If these shapes<br>on paper <br>convey short and long term<br>ideas, and feelings, <br>then I am content<br>to worship them<br>in their paper-based cathedrals.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So drawn my eye<br>so touched my soul<br>by word miens and countenances<br>it must be for me <br>a form of language-love-<br>good thing<br>for a poet to have; <br>like children on a page playing, <br>we tend to watch them there<br>Love, Pride and Anxiety<br>all in the mix conveyed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Language is the arching sky<br>under which this all plays, <br>the linguistic linguini<br>we serve ourselves<br>for sustenance<br>night and day; <br>expanding and limiting<br>all we think or say; <br>revealing and concealing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Words, and meanings are like play, <br>Excuse me while I Capitalize; <br>but lower case seems humbler<br>(ode to ee cummings) <br>but, then one can OverThink<br>any thing<br>and end up with mere wonder.<br>that goes no where, <br>has no second set.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, again-<br>here the double guess; <br>language facilitates and confounds<br>something animals I think<br>know nothing of<br>cursed or blessed you think? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still, it is all we have to communicate meanings. <br>Language is there at birth, <br>there at death, <br>weddings, war and famine.<br>With it we intermingle, <br>mute or loud, <br>our feelings.<br>We cannot be who we are<br>or are not<br>without it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Needs and deeds are acted out <br>but, are mute until language intervenes.<br>Any powerful deed does not exist<br>if it goes unrecorded, <br>to a generation it is lost<br>to time<br>receding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But add to it heroic words<br>or language colorful or condemning, <br>each deed is immortalized<br>memorized<br>introduced to each generation; <br>never-ending; culture-fused.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What magic here! <br>What wonder is this<br>to make pronouns and adverbs<br>the ultimate form<br>of word-play and human alchemy; <br>deed to word form genuine gold, <br>learning, generations, culture.<br>No, there is art here too<br>language art, <br>representational and otherwise; <br>the wonder of it<br>all living underneath <br>the mind's fine canopy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, watch next time<br>your 'P's and 'Q's'<br>Scrutinize their shape, <br>place them ever so gently upon<br>that lovingly written page.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No small deed here, <br>no greater responsibility; <br>this by the way<br>linguistically<br>does to me<br>smell like linguini.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Learn to play-<br>Language is good for you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good Bye.<br>Humm...notice how the 'G' seems to wave.<br>Ah, maybe it's only Me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448220" data-title="A Linguini de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="I am the pronoun prisoner; 'I ' the letter's very shape is a single bar; many taken together my prison make, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII all lined up in a single poem- sometimes too many. We has the 'w' open-ended to the sky posture ..."></div> </div> </div>
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