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Words

What do you want of me ?
You that seem to be of endless chatter
Of words that I should use
Where do I go after a think,
What do you want me to say?
The pit of used words
Is a desolate place
Without a song
To string them together
Let’s just have a go
The spring is due tomorrow,
When I shall sing as the lark
then smile some sunshine on your dull world.

Let the box be opened,
That contains all those distinguished words
Learned from some far off land.
Tormented by a thesaurus of higher languages,
Where we would confuse our friends,
So that they may be tempted,
To use their obsolete brains to read.

Get me the hell out of here,
Let me drift in my own books,
They are a prisoner to my own learning ,
Yet I hear you say,
I understand all those words,
With the inflections of your ways.
Oh! Let me talk to you in my own way,
Let me rejoice in those four letter words,
My dictionary of the mind is so small,
Yet I can tell many stories.

Just give to me a pen
Dripping the inks of time
I shall then write in Rhyme,
Give me the computer keys,
Now I have a dictionary,
That will bring you to your knees.
It is late I shall have to go.

I shall journey on,
To where my dreams, await my soul.
They shall sing to me
Till dawn graces another day
Come join me as I walk the way,
Where all poets shall wander free
That’s me.
Ian.T

Style / type: 
Free verse
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Last few words: 
Just a fun write as it is 00-00 time so I am completely free of all constraints lol, night, night, x'sept them Aussies G'day to those.
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Comments

my mind is always ..
still!

your lovely words
I lay them for you..--------

'''...To use their ...obsolete ...brains to read. ( FRANKLY
Let me rejoice in those ....four ....letter words, (WE ALL DO....
Let the box be opened, (WHICH BOX?
Get me the hell out of here,
They are a prisoner ...to my own learning (HOW SO VERY TRUE.. IAN R U )

loved

The Box:- Let the box be opened,
That contains all those distinguished words
Learned from some far off land.
There are many a poet that drifts in and out of other languages, just a memory box that those words are kept in matbe hope will be the last word lol,
Take care young Bard Teach you we must He He yours Ian.T

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So find more reasons to believe in others..

author comment

oh! words master
come open thy worldly box
much faster..

loved

I like that your subjects are related to the very basics of our writing! Thank you for ink, pen paper words!

Do you know I was bored and had been reading comments and posting mine to the site and noticed where Jess had said about the singing and stringing together of words, so I just sat and wrote this out.
Then you notice that the time has just swept past midnight, a curse as to how late it is, and shut down as in the last Stanza lol
I am blessed really that I can write at any time anywhere, as I said I use to write on beer mats in Canada whilst there a while back, an Irish pub in Clapham Junction just to save having to drink.
I was in Africa and up country in Ellis Russ which has since changed its name, and was doing a job there which meant I had to eat at a Cafe each evening. The girl there that ran the place as soon as she saw me come in would bring paper and pen to my table and extra candle to see, and I would write for her while waiting for my meal lol.
I have led a strange wandering type of life sometimes, though always had a base to go to..
That's more of me now, Take care out there, Yours Ian.T

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There are a million reasons to believe in yourself,
So find more reasons to believe in others..

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And writing with Pen and. paper provided

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