A Picture of Words
A picture of words
Built a syllable at a time
A landscape of nouns
Growing inescapable and fast
A house of verbs
Constructed from the atom
A path of paragraphs
Leading to the whole
A garden of letters
Blooming into structures known
A fence of grammar
Constraining, territories marked
A tree of syntax
Branches high, roots low
A sky of metre
Hidden in the beat of wings
A mountain of meaning
Within a base of abstraction
A river of knowledge
Encoded in a symbolism of mind
Posted: Thursday, October 15th, 2009 @ 9:31 am
Categories: Poems.
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