Speak

[Kima]

speak
speak
speak

you
who is sleeping in silent slumber
you oblivion
you mindless comfort
you cowardice
you coward
you [shagging] coward
speak now
speak now

your time has come I need you to open your mouth and
speak out
out here
out here
out there

for gods' sake
for gods' sake
for all gods' sake

tell the tale tell tale tell sail fail quail tell tail tally taliesin
tell the tell tale tell the

story of what has come before
speak the future into existence

the now
the then
the later
the never
the nothing
the everything
the thing

that you know can only be

incarnate in your own language
in words that do not belong to you

but you have borrowed
burrowed
bellowed

so that you can speak
can speak
speak
you can speak

[Bartholomew]

That's very powerful Kima.

[wyeuro]

yeah, good magic.
pity about the censorship - i mean, who really cares?
wy

[Kima]

Is "shagging" really better than the original word?

I mean, "shagging coward" really makes me picture the act, whereas "f***ing" is a powerful expression that doesn't necessarily refer to the unspeakable!

I've put it in brackets, since that word was conveyed by the Awen to someone other than me Hilarious

[Bartholomew]

I didn't realise that the word had been replaced but thought it worked really well because it is a good old fashioned word which you say conjures up some colourful images.
And I think because the F word is used so frequently to shock these days, it made a pleasant change.

[Crimson Stormfire]

i like it

[Beorthwulf]

Amasing.

[Kima]

I wrote this poem as a Word file and the words are arranged very differently on the page from how they appear here. I've arranged them in three untidy columns so that they look like they echo each other.It makes it look polyphonic (but makes it a little tedious to read!)