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Jul 2017
LEARNING THE LINGO

sets a snare
for words
traps their meaning

the words try to
fly off into their world
she catches them on her tongue

she takes their sounds
prisoner
locks them behind her teeth

then she releases them again
their sense shackled
with understanding

her words...birds now
flying away into the farway
forests of the mind
Donall Dempsey
Written by
Donall Dempsey  Guildford
(Guildford)   
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