Casting Spells With Sticks and Stones

Sticks and stones may break my bones
but words will never hurt me
nonsense chants spewed retaliation tones
reek havoc rolled from forked tongue freely

Harsh words said in haste
commanding demanding condemning
lasting ill impression & bad taste
words alone deserve no blaming

Implications thoughts construed
years of suffering when misused

Word of honor
you have my word
send word
man of his word
dirty word
of few words
at a loss for words
famous last word
get a word in edgewise
for lack of a better word
don't breath a word
what's the word
mark my word
spread the word
if word gets out
word to the wise
in other words
don't mince words
have the last word

Hexes chants magic taboo?
just hocus pocus , say you?
Casting spells is a myth
fictitious witches play with

To type or write isn't new
Yes! This means you too,
spelling word after enchanting word
how much have you conjured?

Be it nouns or verbs
there's power in words
a simple word of encouragement
may be a strangers nourishment
used to be hurtful to humiliate
Could do more than debilitate

Sticks and stones
may break my bones,
but words...
just may kill me



Eingfoolsr deny luggir um teeth
fran forked tungluggirrr spew
origin ór þessi poem forkr þat hafeigir. Þessi words hafar start svá vitþeirar tími þú vitstaðrr

From c. 1200 as "an utterance, something said, a statement, remark;" meaning "set of words with supposed magical or occult powers, incantation, charm" first recorded 1570s; hence any means or cause of enchantment.