One word, once heard, suggests the next invites companions to a harmonious tale each word, being a symbol carries a whole story and penetrates the veil when words play together they dance, transforming into a different life to live as they reach for the stars you can hear whole symphonies and parallel universes are created.
I love this commitment to ideas of the transformative power of words that poets bring to us. Thanks Joshua for another fine example. My own searching for words has generally produced bad poetry in the past so I stick to prose. Your words are encouraging in that the idea that drives this poem; words create (nice things), when well arranged is worthy of reflection. Thanks Joshua.
Thank you Sounder. I like the idea that words can have their own agenda, despite our attempts to point them how we want them to go in a particular goal-oriented direction - which is usually much narrower than they can achieve when we don't interfere too much.
imagine! Words getting together, gathering their friends, telling their stories, having a party 💃 🥂 🎉 and then, all of a sudden, leaping off into a whole other galaxy ✨ created by themselves... what a story! Well, when words get together and play, you never know what's going to happen ~ as we, the hosts of those word-parties, know well.
Interest to me. I have a unique theory that is more like "each word ...penetrates the veil" and less like "they reach for the stars." My theory is that all you really need are the individual words. There is some importance to words put together, as well. But the individual words carry the meaning of the group, so that what people in a language group really need are the individual words. Anybody can put them together to form various dancing texts but it is the words that are the most important thing. For exaple all the philosophy one needs is right there in the language, in the words themeselves, without being re-combined into sentences and so on. "One word, once heard" fits into the language and that completes the word's task. The words do not need to be put into any sort of "composition." (Or article or Substack post) They "dance" just be being placed into the language. Now, certainly they must be used in some way so my theory is not complete. But I am just saying the basic collection of words of a single language is the really important thing for all human knowledge coming out of that, or any, language group. Not the sentences and paragraphs --- just the individual words all collected together as one language. I think, yeah---there is some "momentum" there too but I still need to figure where that fits with my theory!
Thank you Jacob for such an interesting comment. I agree that each word, in a way, is its own mantra. It's a sound, a wave-form, a vibration. Do they need to 'get together'? maybe like people, individuals have their unique value (why add anything?) but when we get together other possibilities open up (not all of them good). Yet individuals are (like you say with words) carriers of the whole (in another language - "The Kingdom of God is within you").
Are words meant to 'get together'? or is "Om..." sufficient? Hmmm, not sure.
if you have not already come across it, you might like the 'Symbiopaedia' postings, the latest of which (on the word "Akenning" you can find here: https://veronikabondsymbiopaedia.substack.com/
Ah Josh! Lovely words on a new moon. A never ending cosmic song singing into that sweet spirit of everything. Am dancing to the music 🎶 🙏❤️🌟
Thank you. Keep dancing 'till my next posting when I hope to give you a new boost ... :)
Resonant!👍Vibrant with silent chords of things to come ...
Thank you. "Vibrant with silent chords of things to come ..." ... I like the way you put that.
Ah perfect Josh. The power of a word to transform, to connect and to create. Thank you. 💜
Thank you. Words, carefully and lovingly cultivated, bring their own surprising wonders.
I love this commitment to ideas of the transformative power of words that poets bring to us. Thanks Joshua for another fine example. My own searching for words has generally produced bad poetry in the past so I stick to prose. Your words are encouraging in that the idea that drives this poem; words create (nice things), when well arranged is worthy of reflection. Thanks Joshua.
Thank you Sounder. I like the idea that words can have their own agenda, despite our attempts to point them how we want them to go in a particular goal-oriented direction - which is usually much narrower than they can achieve when we don't interfere too much.
Playing, whirl dancing,
wild tale-telling, off they go.
Wonder-full word worlds!
Thank you. From whirl-y-gig dancing to world-building -- words carry their own life-forces, and their own ambitions.
imagine! Words getting together, gathering their friends, telling their stories, having a party 💃 🥂 🎉 and then, all of a sudden, leaping off into a whole other galaxy ✨ created by themselves... what a story! Well, when words get together and play, you never know what's going to happen ~ as we, the hosts of those word-parties, know well.
Thank you - yes - indeed. It's the surprise element that makes words so appealing, and fascinating.
dude! word up! world of infinite love is what weeeeee are up to! yippeeeee! i wuv you!
Thank you. Words are great carriers, (often secretly I guess), of cosmic ideas beyond our small minds.
Super poem.
Thank you.
Interest to me. I have a unique theory that is more like "each word ...penetrates the veil" and less like "they reach for the stars." My theory is that all you really need are the individual words. There is some importance to words put together, as well. But the individual words carry the meaning of the group, so that what people in a language group really need are the individual words. Anybody can put them together to form various dancing texts but it is the words that are the most important thing. For exaple all the philosophy one needs is right there in the language, in the words themeselves, without being re-combined into sentences and so on. "One word, once heard" fits into the language and that completes the word's task. The words do not need to be put into any sort of "composition." (Or article or Substack post) They "dance" just be being placed into the language. Now, certainly they must be used in some way so my theory is not complete. But I am just saying the basic collection of words of a single language is the really important thing for all human knowledge coming out of that, or any, language group. Not the sentences and paragraphs --- just the individual words all collected together as one language. I think, yeah---there is some "momentum" there too but I still need to figure where that fits with my theory!
Thank you Jacob for such an interesting comment. I agree that each word, in a way, is its own mantra. It's a sound, a wave-form, a vibration. Do they need to 'get together'? maybe like people, individuals have their unique value (why add anything?) but when we get together other possibilities open up (not all of them good). Yet individuals are (like you say with words) carriers of the whole (in another language - "The Kingdom of God is within you").
Are words meant to 'get together'? or is "Om..." sufficient? Hmmm, not sure.
if you have not already come across it, you might like the 'Symbiopaedia' postings, the latest of which (on the word "Akenning" you can find here: https://veronikabondsymbiopaedia.substack.com/