Words

Posted on by Reena Saxena

Words
escape neural pathways
to find their place in the world
before I can incarcerate them on a page

Words
disappear in the night
captured by someone in the name of
synchronicity; employed in another story

Words
choose their owners and stories;
Not everyone looks up the Synonyms page
Not every word is found when you need it most

Words
join context and expressions
to play your game; Harness them
in the right setting with the right leash

OLN #384

23 thoughts on “Words”

  4. A superb piece of ars poetica Reena, I have certainly woken in the middle of the night and had to reach for my phone and type or dictate thoughts before they could escape, be pinned down – incarcerate is an intriguing thought – and harness, when appropriately leashed, is also a good description. The tension between these ideas is what editing is all about…

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  6. Yes, a great insight into how those words can escape us or are not as good as they were when they came to us in the night and kept us awake. I love the leash and harness imagery and perhaps that is how we need to train ourselves to find the words we need.

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