Sunday, January 17, 2021

The Writer, the Reader, and the Synapse Between Them - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

The Writer, the Reader, and the Synapse Between Them

 

Per V.B. & W.K.

 

From the writer to the reader

From the speaker to the listener

 

Like a 16-year-old crossing a field at noon

A little word has a lot of ground to cover in the heat

A mile of open ground to a wall and some trees

Where confusion does not want it to arrive

 

From the writer to the reader

From the speaker to the listener

 

If we send a little word across a field

But stay behind ourselves and only watch

To see what happens - how responsible are we

If the word dies screaming among the wheat

 

From the writer to the reader

From the speaker to the listener

 

Like a 16-year-old crossing a field at noon

A little word has a lot of ground to cover in the heat

 

16 January 2021

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