Jan 2020
WHY I LOVE WORDS
I love words. They are my colors.
I paint poems with hues of different
words, subtleties, nuances so fine,
they delineate exactly what I feel,
what I wish to convey. Each word
has its own timbre, its own tone.
Some are crisp, others emotive,
perhaps a tint or shade different.
Some are pungent, piquant.
Others are puissant. All have
a rhythm and rhyme that course
through my soul. These and
more are why I love words.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
I love words. They are my colors.
I paint poems with hues of different
words, subtleties, nuances so fine,
they delineate exactly what I feel,
what I wish to convey. Each word
has its own timbre, its own tone.
Some are crisp, others emotive,
perhaps a tint or shade different.
Some are pungent, piquant.
Others are puissant. All have
a rhythm and rhyme that course
through my soul. These and
more are why I love words.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire life. He recently finished his novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
