The much-anticipated, long-awaited Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words explores … words. Language, specific words, their purpose, sounds, meanings, the whole boundless concept of words. We are writers, aren’t we? Words are our currency.
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words
Tasting Words
By Neil Ellman
Say a word
Listen to its bouquet
Swirl it in a glass
And sip it slow
Let it linger on the tongue.
Repeat the sound
And savor it
As if it were a wine
Full and round
With hints of spice
Plums and bramble fruit.
Drink the word
A letter at a time
And know the taste
Of poetry.
Neil Ellman’s poem Excerpt from the Diary of a Man Growing Old, December 20, 2009 appeared at vox poetica as part of Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant in February 2010.
Lovely imagery, lovely poem to start the series!
What a great way to open the series 🙂
Beautiful.