Words Will Never Hurt Me!

Posted by: ann on: 27 November 2007

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The prompt at One Deep Breath is “Boulders, Rocks, Stones & Pebbles”

I confess I’m not too good about using prompts… I once thought they were a brilliant idea, but I realise they don’t work for me.   I do lurk and read true poets’ offerings, but I am an undisciplined woman so regularly going to a site and being told what words to use and when to write simply doesn’t suit me;  just as my poetry is undiscplined and follows no true poetic form.  

Even the following haiku may follow the 5-7-5 pattern, but there is a beautiful intent to haiku that I have never mastered.  I look back and I recognise that my favourite pieces were  those written with a passion from deep within my soul and I cannot write to order.   Occasionally I experience a spate of writing a dozen poems in one week, then a month of nothing.   I am not in competition and, as with my blogging, it cannot be forced; I have to wait for the words to come to me.

This prompt brought only one thought to my mind; a subject I feel strongly about, so my passion was aroused.   In Judaism it is called Lashon Ha-Ra which literally translates as ‘bad tongue’ i.e. disparaging speech.  The link explains it in detail, but the poem expresses it simply.

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sticks and stones they say
wrong; one bad word good name hurt
lethal weapon lips

netting leaks rumours
pebbles ripple ocean’s waves
huge distance shocks rock

bones mend bruises fade
character in smithereens
once spake damage done

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