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The pen is mightier (NaPoWriMo 2022 #29)
My strength is in written words,
here
upon the sentence's peaks
am I at my strongest,
crouching in the pauses
poised to strike with the next syllable.
Vitality and energy
encased in letters
conveying,
for once, for a brief moment,
my will and desire;
the strive to do
and to be,
even if cloaked heavily in metaphor.
For nowhere else,
can I harness
my soul's dynamism
except upon a page,
through words
through symbols
through and through.
Even reserved analogies
voice more wit and wonder
than my throat
could ever sound,
short sharp
Spartan
phrases,
cutting to the quick
cutting remarks,
with vim and vigour
that physical flesh refuses to muster.
As when words are mustered,
worlds can be shaken
and nothing is impossible.
here
upon the sentence's peaks
am I at my strongest,
crouching in the pauses
poised to strike with the next syllable.
Vitality and energy
encased in letters
conveying,
for once, for a brief moment,
my will and desire;
the strive to do
and to be,
even if cloaked heavily in metaphor.
For nowhere else,
can I harness
my soul's dynamism
except upon a page,
through words
through symbols
through and through.
Even reserved analogies
voice more wit and wonder
than my throat
could ever sound,
short sharp
Spartan
phrases,
cutting to the quick
cutting remarks,
with vim and vigour
that physical flesh refuses to muster.
As when words are mustered,
worlds can be shaken
and nothing is impossible.
Published 29th Apr 2022
Author's Note
Entry 29 for NaPoWriMo 2022.
Yet even then, even here, I can't bloody well find the right damn words; I can picture the image and emotion but fuck me if I can write the blasted thing.
Yet even then, even here, I can't bloody well find the right damn words; I can picture the image and emotion but fuck me if I can write the blasted thing.
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21st May 2022 3:36pm
Don't you sometimes wish you could summon all the pen's power upon your tongue in the heat of the moment? Whenever I think up some cutting come-back, it's far too late... and I wouldn't have the guts to say it anyway. Very English, and very averse to insulting people. So I find the pen mighty too!
22nd May 2022 00:00am
I am fortunate enough to have courage and wit, and natural deadpan delivery to be able to fire off a quip in some circumstances. The trick I have found, is to not look to make it be witty, but to be able to have some comeback; any cutting remark is better than no coup-de-grace!
