bigger than the OED

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joel
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bigger than the OED

Post by joel » September 29th, 2010, 12:28 pm

Had I been scribe of dictionary scrolls
or rabbi of the words inscribed within,
had I received the prophets of the tolls
collected through their definitions’ sin
or sacrificed with patriarch and priest
the sums of sons for Sun’s enlightenment—
winged righteousness— I’d write till I increased
the many rooms of heaven’s tenement
and redefine and renovate those slums
of syllabic suppression; and my nouns
would not be static thoughts and theorems,
but action words and adjectives in gowns
of generous repentance; hers and his
would be a broad messiah. Freedom is.
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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Re: bigger than the OED

Post by .Lucy. » September 29th, 2010, 9:09 pm

Breath-taking.
joel wrote: I’d write till I increased
the many rooms of heaven’s tenement
and redefine and renovate those slums
of syllabic suppression; and my nouns
would not be static thoughts and theorems,
but action words and adjectives in gowns
of generous repentance; hers and his
would be a broad messiah.
The road to happiness: Perseverance, Endurance and a whole lot of Hope.

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Re: bigger than the OED

Post by emel.scott » September 30th, 2010, 9:10 am

You are doing just that, Joel and God's speed, Bro
We should not mind if on our ear there fell. Some less of cunning, more of oracle...Thoreau

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