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Universal Language

02 Thursday Oct 2014

Posted by P Moorman in Inspiration, Life

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culture, inspiration, language, life, music

Bee-bop a diddly do
A ring a ding a dong;
Silly little syllables
create a happy song.

Bam, bang, crackle, crash
Ga-rump-a-rump-a-roo;
Now these rougher syllables
I’d rather not even use.

But they all serve a purpose,
and get the point across;
Though they’ve little meaning
they express emotions well.

And so it is with music,
Universal across all lands;
Understood by every tongue,
yet with nary a word sung,
its volume and intonations
convey the feeling among.

10/2/14

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Quenching My Thirst for Metaphors

10 Tuesday Jun 2014

Posted by P Moorman in Family, Humor, Life, Writing

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college, education, family, humor, language, life, metaphors, poems, Poetry, words, writing

Mama used to say,
“Stop beating around the bush,
Just spit it out.”

But my poetry teacher says,
“Don’t tell us, show us;
Use metaphors.”

Well, I’d really like to comply
so with this story I’ll give it a try…

Little Johnny wanted to drink
but not from the kitchen sink.

So, after bidding his mother farewell,
he headed toward the new-fangled well.

Having heard it dug vast and deeper,
he borrowed Mom’s long-handed dipper.

Holding steadfast, he repeatedly dipped it,
quenched by words and concepts he scripted.

Four years of drinking up knowledge,
earned him a degree from this well-known college.

His mama, having known where he’d been,
wished us to celebrate with her and with him:

Come celebrate, we’re proud as can be—
our own Johnny, a college degree!
—————————————————————–

Now if you ask me,
I think mama was right,
No need to beat around the bush,
Just spit it out.

“Johnny graduated college.
Party tonight.”

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Bird Talk

22 Saturday Mar 2014

Posted by P Moorman in Animals and Insects, Humor, Nature

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birds, language, Nature, poems, Poetry, talk

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Tweets and twitters,
Chittering chatter.
What must they be saying,
and to whom do they speak?

Do robins understand sparrows?
Do doves and owls converse?
Do you think they speak languages
geographically unique?

If a sparrow from down south
would move to the northern shore,
do you think the Southern sparrow
would have an accent and say y’all?

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