ARTISAN OF WORDS


I am an artisan of words
Which I sculpt, chisel and fashion the way I can;
I am a creator of worlds;
I pour my emotion into the poems I write.
I breathe life into them, blow them skywards
And finish them only when they sound right.

These remnants of thought without reason
Will remain on pages season after season
Long after I'm gone; when my task is done
The love, the longing, the pain
Will be evoked then by somebody else
Who in turn will remember and write again
To create another slow soft song
That people can read and draw into their hearts
Then pillowed by words, cushioned by dreams
My poems will ride high the moonbeams.



Copyright: Rani Turton 2007


Saturday, July 26, 2008

A Wooden Door, A Metal Key




A Wooden Door, A Metal Key

A plain wooden door, nerve-ridden
A carved metal key, in my pocket hidden

And secrets that lie behind that blank facade
A building, some windows, my dreams

I wandered on those blind Parisian streets
Nobody knew my name
Nobody knew where I came from
I was different, yet still the same

A wooden door like corpus callopsum
Holds my two worlds together
I enter now, I walk out at midnight I flee
The buzzing and the hum

copyright 2007

No comments: