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World Without Words
by Alison McKenzie
In that irregular absence of
Verbal expression,
Various body parts
Fill in the gap
So that meaning
Is never, truly, lost.
Eyes smile
In stories told -
Heartbreak and triumph,
Grief and faith,
And most of all, hope.
Hands express love,
Speak in measures
Of gratitude, wonder,
Hunger and asylum.
Vocal chords hum
In the gentle
Shades of sigh,
Laughter, wist
And surprise.
There are those moments
When words are both
Too scarce
To adequately cover
All these questions;
Yet excessive enough,
For the answers to be lost
In the fray.
12/06/2011
Author's Note: This isn't EXACTLY what I want to say, but it's the beginning of my understanding of a world without words.
Posted on 12/06/2011
Copyright © 2024 Alison McKenzie
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Adam Dyson on 12/07/11 at 03:12 AM Intriguing. A challenge to express in words what it feels to express without them. |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 12/07/11 at 02:15 PM It is a good start Alison. Keep working it through. |
| Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 12/07/11 at 08:01 PM This is great! Though you may also find that we cannot reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.
That is one of the good-graces of poetry, beyond the "words" we can entreat paradoxes, metaphoric
structures and other devices that build an atmosphere, or environment, if you will, that carries further the "collected" definition of our words. Delighted. Thanks. |
| Posted by Tony Whitaker on 11/23/14 at 09:40 PM I always regret not visiting this site when I see brilliant writing such as this |
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