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I want zany words nudging each other
Giggling teenage girls
Tottering on gangly loops,
Hiccoughing glottal stops.
I want singing sounds
Punning, balancing
Acrobats across two sentences
To clutter syntax.
Underground, beneath words,
Dark roots grow, birth
Flowers of meaning.
40 Words is part of an online word installation on the Arvon Blog. This is shortlisted piece from the Arvon/DXN Magazine competition 2008. Writers were invited to send 40 Words on Words to celebrate Arvon’s 40th birthday this year.
Words connect inside out and the outside to within. Like worker bees they can nourish or sting, so choose them well like quality chocolates, for you might have to eat them. And once they’re out, they can’t go back in.
When intimidated by the vast emptiness of the page, a word is a risk.
It denotes a life of contemplation, with no delusions of grandeur.
The immeasurable interim of the page is my host.
With words, I mark my space.
For me, words are important for the way they engage the emotions - whether it’s through angry song lyrics or funny TV dialogue. As a writer, you hope your words will find their way out there to connect with someone.
Language stopped by laryngitis, thinking blocked by sinusitis, reading blurred by blefaritis, word-processing curbed by spondylitis…So grasp words to allay suffering: images of impermanence, cloudfree skies alleviating mind-pain; meditate on ‘Truth, Beauty’ and ‘Damn blasts’ and writings of Goethe.
40 Words is part of an online word installation on the Arvon Blog. This is shortlisted piece from the Arvon/DXN Magazine competition 2008. Writers were invited to send 40 Words on Words to celebrate Arvon’s 40th birthday this year.
