Words are silent until
they’re sung or spoken;
secrets and promises
waiting to be broken.
Words in CAPITALS
are silent screams;
words in clouds
are hopes and dreams;
emboldened words
are emphasised,
important words
italicised –
but all remain silent until
they are vocalised.
Kim M. Russell, 2018
My response to Poets United Midweek Motif: Word
This week Sumana has inspired us with quotes and examples of poems for the Midweek Motif ~ Word.
writing in north norfolk 
I am loving how you are rhyming your words. words in clouds
are hopes and dreams;…love these words.
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Thanks Toni!
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Love these rhymes and all the words you used.
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Thanks Myrna!
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Marvelous! 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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Thank you, Dorna! 🙂
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Words and rhymes are excellent here, Kim!
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Well done. And that image is rather amazing!
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Thank you, Sherry. It was a challenge to find an image to illustrate a poem about words!
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Such an enjoyable poem comparing visual and spoken/auditory words.
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Thank you, Susan.
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Wow! The rhyme works here like magic. So lovely to read aloud. I also love that ‘hope & dream’ line.
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Thank you for your kind words, Sumana.
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Beautiful rhyme. And the image is captivating.
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Thank you, Khaya!
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Perfect.
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Thanks Viv!
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🙂
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I love Olbinski’s surreal art … and I LOVE your very clever use of words!
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Thank you kindly, Bev!
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Much wit and much truth!
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Thank you, Rosemary!
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Oh I love this surreal painting and your poem as well !
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Thank you!
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Excellent job rhyming, and I love the idea that written words are incomplete.
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Thank you for reading and commenting.
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Indeed, that is the purposeof words, to be spoken… Hence the inept attempts of punctuation and font distinctions to try and capture that shades of meaning of the spoken word! Lovely!
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Thank you kindly!
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