those words that haunt you at night ! whoops hollers under the covers brought love to mind not killers On 14/08/2019 03:07, Bill Wootton wrote: > Ignore the bold below please: > > > Spoken schmoken > > > Do not worry about these words. They are not armed. > > They are assembled. They have however been pressed > > into service. They march toward but never reach > > the edge. They are freighted but not loaded. > > > Other words command. They bristle with intention. > > Achtung! Crocodiles! Across Northern Queensland > > multi-lingual Germans are forewarned riverside. > > > Now let us turn to another bracket of words: > > those unexamined words issued by mind and mouth, > > at volume. Rat-a-tat words, unsentenced outgoings, > > non-words even. Whoops. Hollers. > > When you are under the covers in the night > > it is these > > that are the killers. > > > bw > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1