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insignia compendia

by Elizabeth Jill


t' take the sword into the aire
and slash the pronouns brooding   they're

t' shred the adjectives, the joys,
and spit inflection w' all its hoise

this is abduction most severe
that fleeted brute such brought you here

t' tangle wit and climbing pulse
and break your mind to syllables

t' flick the gerund out to sea
  and drink its salty finity

        insignia  indignia
   compendia  condencia

insignia indignia compendia condencia










02/21/2009

Posted on 02/21/2009
Copyright © 2024 Elizabeth Jill

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 02/21/09 at 08:26 PM

What I "hear" here is something I've thought often. That writing, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. Nothing is so healing as the realization that one has come upon the right word. Double thanks.

Posted by Alison McKenzie on 02/21/09 at 09:11 PM

I adored the clever way of keeping the rhythm with, "salty finity". Nothing lost there, and smart throughout!!!

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 02/22/09 at 05:38 PM

What does it all mean! One can see a brutal editor having at it, one can. or my brain sorting through, sorting through..... Clever, my friend.

Posted by Stephan Anstey on 02/22/09 at 06:57 PM

You are so devilishly smart Ms. Jill.

Posted by Joan Serratelli on 02/23/09 at 01:17 PM

I agree with ALL of the above! Your creativity and talent scare me. Wonderful read as always!

Posted by Colleen Sperry on 02/23/09 at 05:40 PM

great write. I so enjoy reading your works...

Posted by Aaron Michael on 02/23/09 at 07:14 PM

another amazement, Jill. wonderful.

Posted by Laura Doom on 03/01/09 at 02:25 PM

enigmatic variations
who would pen the sphere's mistress to the circle? I'm all aquiver to bear such mauling :>

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 03/31/09 at 11:35 AM

to sea is to reed to reed is to heed that art inordinate as this can'st but be manufactured in the heart

Posted by Michael Smith on 07/30/09 at 06:48 PM

That last couplet must be the spell you always say t'consistently capture us again and again, Ms. Jill.

Poemus Tremendous!

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 08/02/09 at 12:17 PM

Catchy use of linguistics from start to finish. I really like how you start each stanza with t' also. Quite original.

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