[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:59:27 -0600
I do love Sundays.... (When are you going to publish a compilation of you
poetry and other writings?)
Julie Krueger
On 11/4/07, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> *Amanuensis*
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> (inspired by John McCreery)
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> I'm a sound catcher,
> called in by those who need
> to see what they've said.
> Taught by master craftsmen,
> I know how to fashion springes
> to catch phonemes.
> Let loose your plosives, voiceless
> and aspirated,
> bring me your labials, sibilants, stops,
> send forth your fricatives,
> no sound can escape
> my graphemes,
> give my your vowels --
> monophthongal, diphthongal, triphthongal --
> none is beyond the strokes of my pen,
> no sound beyond my ken to catch.
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> The spoken word dies just beyond the lips that gave it birth.
> A word that may have taken a lifetime in the making
> can only last one hearing long and then is gone.
> Did God really say: "Let there be"?
> Our existence an echo of that utterance?
> We know only that at some point in time
> some amanuensis wrote that down,
> wrote it, and being writ, it will remain
> so long as writing lasts.
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> Mike Geary
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