Communication

Communication

I think, for the next few posts, I'll put up some random stuff from my writing journals.  I carry a notebook around with me and write down ideas and stuff when they come to me.  Some of it makes it into poems, stories or articles but a lot of it never gets out of the notebook.  I have hundreds of little snippets littering my journals like a cutting room floor.  I have fun looking back over some of the things that crossed my mind, and maybe you will too.  Here's a poem:

Communication

Am I a song?

     Chorus and verse connected

     Memory interjected

Am I a riddle?

     A misunderstanding

     An answer demanding

Am I a poem?

     Moving in rhythm

     Intimacy given

Am I prose?

     A noun, adjective, verb

     The common man's word

Am I a speech?

     Politics, promises, first impressions

     Carefully guarded intentions

Am I a lesson?

     Knowledge to impart

     Academic heart

Am I a lecture?

     Reprimand for mistakes

     Advice I didn't take

Am I an advertisement

     A pretty package

     A billboard in traffic

Am I a ballad?

     A recurrent refrain

     An oft spoken name

Am I a eulogy?

     A life celebrated

     Goodness exaggerated

Am I an article?

     A source of expertise

     Informative and brief

Am I a story?

     Innocent and mild

     Comforting a child

Am I a novel?

     A predetermined plot

     Complete with epilogue

Am I a diary?

     Casually introspective

     Privately self-reflective

Am I a sonnet?

     A sigh of delight

     A murmur of night

Am I an announcement?

     A rooftop confession

     A public obsession

Am I a cliche?

     Lost originality

     Trite commonality

Am I a definition?

     A resolved concept

     Creatively inept

Am I a sermon?

     A basic truth

     Belief without proof

I am speaking

     Optimism and rage

     Words on a page