Long Poems About the Power Of Words
#PowerOfWords
cabcool
Poem Published
2nd Oct 2023 7:31pm
2nd Oct 2023 7:31pm
the healing word
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to
the healing of the world.”―Marianne Williamson
tether not thou the tender tongue
that tempers tears and thorns,
when tyrant terrors thrust their throng
at you and blow their horns.
delimit not the lisping lips
that lave the limping loins
of him defeated by eclipse
...
the healing of the world.”―Marianne Williamson
tether not thou the tender tongue
that tempers tears and thorns,
when tyrant terrors thrust their throng
at you and blow their horns.
delimit not the lisping lips
that lave the limping loins
of him defeated by eclipse
...
#strength
#TimeHeals
#WritingPoetry
#PowerOfWords
#healing
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cabcool
Poem Published
2nd Oct 2023 4:07pm
2nd Oct 2023 4:07pm
the secret word
Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.”―Ann Aguirre
it comes from deep within a shell,
pressed closely to the ear,
whose music no one else can tell
but he who holds it dear.
i hear it in the ripple of
the gently flowing spring:
a word of patience and of love
...
it comes from deep within a shell,
pressed closely to the ear,
whose music no one else can tell
but he who holds it dear.
i hear it in the ripple of
the gently flowing spring:
a word of patience and of love
...
#secrets
#power
#LifeAsAWriter #PowerOfWords
#LifeAsAWriter #PowerOfWords
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cabcool
Poem Published
28th Sep 2023 9:58pm
28th Sep 2023 9:58pm
the silent word
"Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more
beautiful than the silence."—Author Unknown
there are some things i dare not say,
for they may pierce too deep
the heart on which their burdens weigh,
when conscience tries to sleep.
let silent inks be golden streams
that flow from gilead
to counteract the verbal screams
...
beautiful than the silence."—Author Unknown
there are some things i dare not say,
for they may pierce too deep
the heart on which their burdens weigh,
when conscience tries to sleep.
let silent inks be golden streams
that flow from gilead
to counteract the verbal screams
...
#strength
#silence
#WritingPoetry #PowerOfWords
#WritingPoetry #PowerOfWords
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cabcool
Poem Published
27th Sep 2023 7:08pm
27th Sep 2023 7:08pm
the whispered word
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. Itwas
not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”—Judy Garland
the silence, still, is undisturbed,
when sotto voce tones
the wayward word has gently curbed,
before it jars the bones.
vexations to the spirit bear
the crudely contoured chasms
that bump and grind across the ear
like intellectual spasms.
...
not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”—Judy Garland
the silence, still, is undisturbed,
when sotto voce tones
the wayward word has gently curbed,
before it jars the bones.
vexations to the spirit bear
the crudely contoured chasms
that bump and grind across the ear
like intellectual spasms.
...
#relationships
#romantic
#peace
#LifeAsAWriter
#PowerOfWords
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VeronikaB
Poem Published
27th Sep 2023 3:56pm
27th Sep 2023 3:56pm
The Symbiocene in Waiting
"A word is more than a mere combination of letters and sounds.
The potency of words reaches the substrata of all of us.
Words carry culture, carry history;
they form and confine our thoughts.
Words matter."
〰 Nora Bateson 〰
THE CHTHULUCENE & OTHER MINDBENDERS
"Diverse human and nonhuman players are necessary in every fiber of the tissues of the urgently needed Chthulucene story," says Donna Haraway, American historian of consciousness and feminist studies.
In her essay Tentacular...
The potency of words reaches the substrata of all of us.
Words carry culture, carry history;
they form and confine our thoughts.
Words matter."
〰 Nora Bateson 〰
THE CHTHULUCENE & OTHER MINDBENDERS
"Diverse human and nonhuman players are necessary in every fiber of the tissues of the urgently needed Chthulucene story," says Donna Haraway, American historian of consciousness and feminist studies.
In her essay Tentacular...
#evolution
#PowerOfWords
#mythology
#magic
#philosophical
239 reads
6 Comments
VeronikaB
Poem Published
20th Sep 2023 4:25pm
20th Sep 2023 4:25pm
Words from the Cracks
It seems like things want to fall apart.
It seems like we’ve been stolen from home.
Where do you go when things fall apart,
when home has been taken away from you,
when the cracks appear?
〰 Bayo Akomolafe 〰
ANTHROPOCENE
The current era of human history is sometimes called Anthropocene, the ‘Age of Man’. All previous word composition with -cene (from Greek kainos = era) 〰 like Miocene, when the Alps and Himalayas were formed, and Pleistocene, when glacial periods caused extinction of many...
It seems like we’ve been stolen from home.
Where do you go when things fall apart,
when home has been taken away from you,
when the cracks appear?
〰 Bayo Akomolafe 〰
ANTHROPOCENE
The current era of human history is sometimes called Anthropocene, the ‘Age of Man’. All previous word composition with -cene (from Greek kainos = era) 〰 like Miocene, when the Alps and Himalayas were formed, and Pleistocene, when glacial periods caused extinction of many...
#inspirational
#evolution
#PowerOfWords
#mythology
#philosophical
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VeronikaB
Poem Published
14th Sep 2023 3:42pm
14th Sep 2023 3:42pm
Phemes Infamous Brood
"We make a space inside ourselves so that being can speak."
〰 Martin Heidegger 〰
RUMOUR
In last week’s wordcast we met Pheme, the daimona of fame and rumour in Greek mythology. In everyday language, the Greek word pheme simply means ‘speech’. It is fairly alive and familiar in the English words blasphemy and euphemism. Less so in the linguistic term pheme itself (= word as a grammatical unit).
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers held the daimona (Pheme / Fama) responsible for anything related to the spreading of stories via...
〰 Martin Heidegger 〰
RUMOUR
In last week’s wordcast we met Pheme, the daimona of fame and rumour in Greek mythology. In everyday language, the Greek word pheme simply means ‘speech’. It is fairly alive and familiar in the English words blasphemy and euphemism. Less so in the linguistic term pheme itself (= word as a grammatical unit).
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers held the daimona (Pheme / Fama) responsible for anything related to the spreading of stories via...
#PowerOfWords
#mythology
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9 Comments
VeronikaB
Poem Published
5th Sep 2023 2:42pm
5th Sep 2023 2:42pm
The WordFairies
Who the Hex are Word⚘Fairies?
That witches and wizards use words to cast magic spells is well known. Lesser known is the fact 〰 at least as true as the etymon in etymology, and arguably more original than the PIE system of W. J. jr. 〰 that words have fairies.
Being born and bred on Planet Human, Word⚘Fairies are mostly earthbound creatures. Although they can fly too. They can jump from one human to another. But not too far. At least with spoken words.
When words are spoken, their fairies move like grasshoppers 〰 or dragonflies...
That witches and wizards use words to cast magic spells is well known. Lesser known is the fact 〰 at least as true as the etymon in etymology, and arguably more original than the PIE system of W. J. jr. 〰 that words have fairies.
Being born and bred on Planet Human, Word⚘Fairies are mostly earthbound creatures. Although they can fly too. They can jump from one human to another. But not too far. At least with spoken words.
When words are spoken, their fairies move like grasshoppers 〰 or dragonflies...
#PowerOfWords
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VeronikaB
Poem Published
3rd Sep 2023 9:59pm
3rd Sep 2023 9:59pm
Word Diggers and Poachers
Digging for Wordroots
It may sound obscure, but studying words is not an uncommon hobby among wordnerds and philologists [from Greek philein = to love + logos = word – literally lovers of words]. (Not to be confused with logophiles = lovers of logos).
Some even make a career of it. Such outliers are called etymologists [from Greek etumos = true, genuine, factual, certain + logos = word]. They spend the best part of their days excavating and analysing the history of words to find their true origins.
Etymologists study the histories of words for all sorts of...
It may sound obscure, but studying words is not an uncommon hobby among wordnerds and philologists [from Greek philein = to love + logos = word – literally lovers of words]. (Not to be confused with logophiles = lovers of logos).
Some even make a career of it. Such outliers are called etymologists [from Greek etumos = true, genuine, factual, certain + logos = word]. They spend the best part of their days excavating and analysing the history of words to find their true origins.
Etymologists study the histories of words for all sorts of...
#PowerOfWords
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9 Comments
VeronikaB
Poem Published
23rd Aug 2023 6:25pm
23rd Aug 2023 6:25pm
The Wild Motherword
The Backstory of Knowledgetrees
Among all sacred trees of the world, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil has a unique reputation. She turned out to be perhaps the most prolific cultivar. Despite the fact that she produces the forbidden fruit, she’s managed to sow her seeds far and wide 〰 or did the taboo-factor give a boost to scattering those banned pips?
When the suckers of the Tree of Knowledge reached the Northwest of the Old World 〰 along with the shoots of her companion plant, the Tree of Life 〰 they usurped Yggdrasil and Irminsul and many...
Among all sacred trees of the world, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil has a unique reputation. She turned out to be perhaps the most prolific cultivar. Despite the fact that she produces the forbidden fruit, she’s managed to sow her seeds far and wide 〰 or did the taboo-factor give a boost to scattering those banned pips?
When the suckers of the Tree of Knowledge reached the Northwest of the Old World 〰 along with the shoots of her companion plant, the Tree of Life 〰 they usurped Yggdrasil and Irminsul and many...
#narrative
#PowerOfWords
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VeronikaB
Poem Published
22nd Aug 2023 7:37pm
22nd Aug 2023 7:37pm
Canvas
a brief history of the English word canvas, including what sailing, painting, and the American flag have in common with jeans and politics
When Christopher Columbus set sails in 1492 to discover a new route to India his ships were powered by wind and canvas. Renaissance artists of the same era painted their masterpieces on canvas. Canvas was still used by the Dutch masters Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt in the 17th century.
Betsy Ross wasn’t an artist. But in the biography of the word ‘canvas’ she has a unique place. Her name is remembered for sewing the first American...
When Christopher Columbus set sails in 1492 to discover a new route to India his ships were powered by wind and canvas. Renaissance artists of the same era painted their masterpieces on canvas. Canvas was still used by the Dutch masters Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt in the 17th century.
Betsy Ross wasn’t an artist. But in the biography of the word ‘canvas’ she has a unique place. Her name is remembered for sewing the first American...
#narrative
#PowerOfWords
#historical #nonfiction
#historical #nonfiction
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TrueLover
Meganne
Meganne
Poem Published
9th Mar 2023 6:56pm
9th Mar 2023 6:56pm
God is the only one to judge
Voices in my head,
Say that I’m better off dead.
But I’m too scared to die.
I don’t want to say goodbye.
I just dont want to hurt.
Anymore.
I want to be seen by the people I love.
I want to be enough.
But I’m not.
Not for them.
I want to take this painful experience and allow it to create something beautiful.
I know in my heart that my worth is provable.
But not for them.
For me.
I know I can be a better version of myself.
Life...
Say that I’m better off dead.
But I’m too scared to die.
I don’t want to say goodbye.
I just dont want to hurt.
Anymore.
I want to be seen by the people I love.
I want to be enough.
But I’m not.
Not for them.
I want to take this painful experience and allow it to create something beautiful.
I know in my heart that my worth is provable.
But not for them.
For me.
I know I can be a better version of myself.
Life...
#PowerOfWords
#hurt
#SelfWorth
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