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A Poets Words

21st Century


An infant goo's and gaga's,
Suddenly there is a word.
Word to words,
Words to sentences,
Sentences to phrases,
Phrases to paragraphs,
Paragraphs to Speech.
It is poetry one speaks first.
It is alike a silhouette moving slowly into light,
It is then a living, breathing life.
Can a person not see the beauty in this progress?
Speech babbled until worked with
By an infants elder.
The elder teaches the words, momma, and poppa first.
To the infant, we say baaaaalll--Ball.
And we know it is a ball.
However, infants, they are creative with words.
The word Ball to them is not pronounced Ball, it is
Said entirely different.
Ball to them may be bah.
Bottle to them, bah bah.
Bye, bye to them, bah bah.
The word yellow, yet, to the infant it is lellow.
Bah lellow.
Adult speech we say they word; roll, rolls.
An infants says wol, wols.
Lellow bah wols.
The elder and the infant grow together, understanding
Gibber and poetry.
The yellow ball rolls.

II.

Yellow ball roll,
Roll out of sight.
Roll to a castle,
Bring me a Knight.
Have him to take
My hand and alike
My kin,
We will teach our
Infant to say a word.
Words to Sentence.
Sentence to phrase.
Phrase to paragraph.
Paragraph to speech.
Alike, the great poets
We will not skip
Rhythm, rhyme, or, a beat.
Lellow,
Bah,
Wols.
Yellow ball roll.

Copyright 2003 Beverly Bishop. All rights reserved.

for the slaves of the Anna Kinglsey plantation

once there was a bit of rope
meant to tie up oranges in groves;
African gardeners sang
their Gospel songs as they picked
those juicy fruits from branch
to barren branch.
loads of sun and sky fell down on them
as blue stained overalls
covered secret wounds.
still, unprepared smiles shined
with warm citrus
until other seeds,
ordered in the garden,
were allowed to grow.


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