Strings and Things
This is a little bit of a game I play with myself... word association. The point is to begin with simple words and word purpose, like nouns and verbs, and then move onto the larger part of my vocabulary with more extraordinary words and greater meaning or ideas behind those words. It's like a pre-writing warm-up exercise. What can you pop out of your brain? Strings and things Pulleys and gullies Ropes and hopes Trees and breezes Seas and keys Heart and part Song and wrong Sigh and fly Petal and metal Pluck and funk Goals and Souls Dismember and Remember Metal trees in my dreams with pulleys as fruit And I with ladder in hand Climbed each branch Threading rope Through the loops attached each one to my head My hair forcing the pulleys to spin Bending the tree My way Uprooting and replanting Moving forward Slowly Steadily In artistic drudgery The wheels spin but the hamster is dead Or is it? Open your eyes Love is never dead Bu...