Dig Deep
Now,
I lay me down
to rest,
on
Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate
Dictionary’s
enormous chest.
‘Wit’ ‘sum’
‘Psycho-babbling’,
structural jargon’s
an’
esoteric language
to create
this impression
of
digging deep
at my
utter-most
best.
I lay me down
to rest,
on
Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate
Dictionary’s
enormous chest.
‘Wit’ ‘sum’
‘Psycho-babbling’,
structural jargon’s
an’
esoteric language
to create
this impression
of
digging deep
at my
utter-most
best.
What did I just
say?
Don’t know.
‘Twaz’
just a test.
You failed
though.
For
where there are two
or
three words
gathered
in
research
an’
resource;
compare
an’
contrast
erupt
on one accord,
in-
harmoniousness
discord.
Just like poetic thoughts
lost
in THE “Red Sea”.
‘Sumthin’
floats my boat
within me!
Something ‘ain’t’ quite ‘write’
So, I ‘right’
Hmmm???
Don’t know.
‘Twaz’
just a test.
You failed
though.
For
where there are two
or
three words
gathered
in
research
an’
resource;
compare
an’
contrast
erupt
on one accord,
in-
harmoniousness
discord.
Just like poetic thoughts
lost
in THE “Red Sea”.
‘Sumthin’
floats my boat
within me!
Something ‘ain’t’ quite ‘write’
So, I ‘right’
Hmmm???
There are
no words
that
entirely
define
my poetry.
Peculiarity.
Hmm.
No,
that is not me.
no words
that
entirely
define
my poetry.
Peculiarity.
Hmm.
No,
that is not me.
My poetry
‘iz’ ‘az’
un-unique
as can be.
Harmless,
as Noah’s dove;
have you not heard?
Well
maybe peculiarity
does
define me.
‘Cause’
that Raven bird
sure does.
‘iz’ ‘az’
un-unique
as can be.
Harmless,
as Noah’s dove;
have you not heard?
Well
maybe peculiarity
does
define me.
‘Cause’
that Raven bird
sure does.
Yeah,
a black ‘byrd’ set free
‘wit’ absolutely
NO
return address
to return thee.
a black ‘byrd’ set free
‘wit’ absolutely
NO
return address
to return thee.
I get way too lost
an’
cogitate
poetically
CORRECT
thoughts.
All
in
all;
all is at lost,
when I write
as I
set sail
them pages
in braille.
My ears see
what others
dare dream
My eyes hear
What my mind can’t conceive
My poetry speaks
LOUD AND CLEAR
to those who believe
or perceive
whichever~~~
an’
cogitate
poetically
CORRECT
thoughts.
All
in
all;
all is at lost,
when I write
as I
set sail
them pages
in braille.
My ears see
what others
dare dream
My eyes hear
What my mind can’t conceive
My poetry speaks
LOUD AND CLEAR
to those who believe
or perceive
whichever~~~
Did you not know?
My heart sets precedence
of a prestigious poetic leper's
writing prose?
Who knew?
Webster knew,
that his poetry defined me.
Yeah,
I’m in it
way to deep.
My heart sets precedence
of a prestigious poetic leper's
writing prose?
Who knew?
Webster knew,
that his poetry defined me.
Yeah,
I’m in it
way to deep.
Dedicated to: Mind games; don’t get ‘em’ twisted.
In 1806 Noah Webster published his first dictionary, “A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language” and began work the next year on his definite work, published in 1828, when he was 70, as “An American Dictionary of the English Language.” It contained 70,000 words, of which about 12,000 had never appeared in a dictionary before, and introduced a standard American spelling. The book only sold 2,500 copies, but in 1840 he published a 2nd, more successful, edition. After his death. In 1843 George and Charles Merriam, who had founded G & C Merriam Company in 1828, secured publishing and revision rights to the 1840 edition and published a revision in 1847 with new sections and a 2nd update with illustrations in 1859. In 1864 Merriam published a new edition, the 1st to change Webster's original text. By 1884 it contained 118,000 words, 3,000 more than any other English dictionary. (After 1890 it was retitled “Webster's International” and continued to expand its contents, reaching over a ½ million words by 1934.) The abridged “Collegiate Dictionary” was introduced in 1898. Due to a series of lawsuits that made the name “Webster” part of the public domain, G. & C. Merriam changed its name to Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, and in 1983 it published “Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary,” redesigned to be not merely an abridged version of the 1961“Third New International.”
ReplyDeleteNoah built an ark to save his family and representatives of all terrestrial life from destruction by a global flood. “And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him anymore. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dried. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry” (Genesis 8: 6-14). Beginning with Philo of Alexandria, the raven, a symbol of vice, had been sent as a purge of evil from the ark, but Renee’ identifies it as a rootless black bird that allows her to freely write, without official guidance or restraint. Lepers, like ravens, are regarded as outcasts from society, as are artists, in that they do not readily conform to social norms.