For Mateo
By Salty Ships
He traces Octavio Paz
with a native tongue
from the tent of my trembling knees
to a hollow
of
shadows
where stunted linguistics
do nothing to muddle meaning
and we demolish the Tower Of Babel
using sounds that form no words.
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Copyright 2014 Salty Ships
Published on Friday, February 7, 2014.
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"Poetry"
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A former member wrote:
Very emotional and creative piece!... :)
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On Tuesday, February 11, 2014, TropicalSnowstorm
(1580) wrote:
"we demolish the Tower Of Babel using sounds that form no words" - love that word picture! Hope the one you are thinking of "every time" doesn't find out...or is that the point? You have an excellent poetic style and I am so happy to have a new piece to read from you! Ciao, T/S
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On Saturday, February 8, 2014, FadedBlues
(2096) wrote:
...beautiful. sounds outside of language are musical...