Tuesday, December 25, 2012

V.

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make and end is to make a beginning. 
The end is where we start from. 
And every phrase And sentence that is right (where every word is at home, 
Taking its place to support the others, 
The word neither diffident nor ostentatious, 
An easy commerce of the old and the new, 
The common word exact without vulgarity, 
The formal word precise but not pedantic, 
The complete consort dancing together)

We are words, each with our own meaning
Correct pronunciation and preferred placement
We belong together in sentences, complete thoughts
Converging into paragraphs, pages, and unfolding plots
Each an author, playwright, creator of fine works
Finding how our one word might fulfill its function
Alone: Yes, No, even a groan
But more often in pairs, phrases, subject and verb
Contrasting coupling sometime contending
This becoming new in communion with that.

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