Your words
Your words
are the tiniest

    c           t e r
s       a t              e
                                 d

little slivers of brilliance
I must scurry to collect.

Frantically
before they expire
not resting until
every single one
is safe and sound.

Placing the slivers
in an intimate hollow
and taking them out
only in the dark
when I am alone.

My guilty little pleasures
clutched tightly in my fist
tenderly pressing them
to my ears.


©Jaydean Wszolek  2007

Comments:
 
StarPoet   StarPoet wrote
on 11/26/2014 4:57:21 AM
That last verse rocked! Good thinking and expression! You still have the gift too.

Jeannie   Jeannie wrote
on 11/2/2014 1:39:56 PM
Achingly beautiful and simple use of language.

OneVoice   OneVoice wrote
on 7/13/2014 7:39:15 PM
Your words 'drop' as honeycomb to the soul filled by your savory words. It's true... many words do not fill space as suitably as those 'appropriately' coined. Beautiful...

amusedeplume   amusedeplume wrote
on 6/16/2009 6:04:25 PM
"My guilty little pleasures clutched tightly in my fist tenderly pressing them to my ears." You've weaved common words into a sensational masterpiece. Starlingpoet, this is purely magical and hauntingly poignant.

WAN   WAN wrote
on 6/15/2009 10:28:23 AM
who rated this 6? this is brilliant! 10 from me!!!!!!

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