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The Mending Word


Article # : 12704 

Section : THE ARTS
Issue Date : 3 / 1987  197 Words
Author : Davea E. Faust
Davea E. Faust is a free-lance writer living in the Chicago area.

        Good rhyme has a resounding impact; pray
        Forgive the pun. Something there is that needs
        To make words on their haunches stand and stay.
        Through fiery hoops spring, and precisely say
        Its meaning; tightly rhymed, to do these deeds.
       
        Something would father child, and bring it to
        First steps, to journeys of the mind and heart,
        In time, to be a teacher of the true,
        To form a world, the like we never knew,
        To make the difference, and another start.
       
        To build a ship that masters wind and course,
        Harnessed to hands who sense that point of lift
        The craft will fly with a resounding force -
        (Impact should be avoided here, of course.)
        Something there is that wants to ride the drift,
       
        To write, to whippersnap wild, wandering words
        In tame co-operation, one by one
        And side by side, til newmade worlds emerge,
        Til many thousand souls have felt the scourge,
        Til something fresh is spinning in ... (2000 of 978 Characters)
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