Careful! They are Words

[mtmynd]

Careful! They are Words


pick your words
like colors from a pallet

pick your words
like you'd pick a flower

pick your words
like notes for a melody

pick your words
for they have such power

words can hurt
words can hate
words can corrupt
words can devastate

pick your words
with care and gentleness

words can smile
words can love
words can laugh
words can care

pick your words
from the garden of life

pick your words
and see their flex

how many words
make up the world?
how many words
create our life?
how many words
compete for attention?
how many words
have spilled from lips

without caring
without sharing
without daring
without snaring
the beast within..?

take your time
select with grace
the words that make
thoughts become real

take your time
choose with love
the words that spell
how you want it to be

words in their strength
have caused wars
have caused death
have caused remorse
have caused loss

be careful how you use them
these things are not simply
words
but bullets that can penetrate
the thickest of skin

be careful in handling words
for their potency
can destroy or create
depending how you shoot them
out of the cannon of your mouth...


*Cecil

[mnaz]

'Loose lips sink ships'....


Person-to-person 'disconnect' can be tricky. But notice how technology often deepens that disconnect-- invective tossed out from behind a computer screen, automotive road rage, 'smart bombs', etc...... disconnect from nature itself, I suppose.

On the other hand, technology affords me a fine window into the Phar Lepht world, so go figure....

[~K]

Ah! This is a wonderful wake up call. And I will try, I swear to try!

[Ann Bingham]

Ah such power in the words you put forth.

[mtmynd]

~K and Ann - thank you for your kind words[/b]!!

[gypsyjoker]

I think it would have been better had Paul not decided to take that particular road that day. He would have just been the founder of a small Jewish sect. A cult within a cult. He was the first christian. And I have had dear friends who have told me that they expect to see St Peter at the pearly gates, James and Paul and the rest of the saints. It worked for her. It was good enough for me. So I remember somebody said ...I think it was Luke The Drifter
http://www.poetspath.com/exhibits/troubadours_hank.html

And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

Just playing a spirit game. Only thing I lie about is sex.

[stilltrucking]

Sometimes the words just got to come unpicked.
Sometimes words have to just come from the heart
Other times you must pick your words with care.
Many times I have said the wrong thing at the wrong time.

sometimes sticks and stones can break my bones
sometimes words are life and death.

Again you have picked a peck
Of Good Words

[alienpoet]

wow- great message ,very well done and even much more. sevens