Words

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With these words I do digress ‎

For what I am about to say is not to impress

As I look for words that we seem to have lost

I feel I need them heard as to me they did possess

Something special when I press hard against my chest

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Full on and furlong wee little words we have lost ‎

And now we know not where they belong

Pathways through time have covered their gleaming

With the passages of never-ending timeless meaning

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For where art thou thy wondrous words ‎

From our bygone past have you been deferred ‎

With history of emerging bind over your elusive time

Do you struggle to be seen in the streets of the well read

Is your time in the sun covered under what we said

‎ The murky waters of an unimaginative clasp

Have clipped you from our ears grasp

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Wonder oh wonder was it me

‎ Who failed to utter thee instead of you

I choose the easier critique to express my views

When you were there for me just waiting to bemuse

And pluck your fetalis petite coronet from natures amuse ‎

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Climb out from under your dusty text book pew ‎

Present again your clever amusing tongue

For we have miscued over your descriptive valour

You carried such glamor and grace when sprouted from ‎

‎  Greats like James, Ann, Jane, Henry, William and the other fella

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From under yonder fallowed log must thou lie

Struggling to gasp and contrive

Wind and rain doth drown ye not

Time and tide will unleash thee to the untried lot

Gather from whence thou came word prince to ‎

Enlighten we of little brain again ‎

With thou gladiator meandering slur of fame

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Doth you hide under melting snow

Only while them cold winds blow

Unfrock thou hidden sheath to reveal ‎

Once again thine clever unabashed beak

We of us who wait in vain protean

Wish to hear thine sounds said again

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Come hither from yonder this hidden tomb

Rise up oh word prince and visit us this noon

Shyness was not your buoyant game

Reframe with critique you hath slandered and defamed

thou gestured with words those of which I could never explain

Toss thine tethered cloth and come to us again. ‎

Gary Duffy 2007‎