Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Tasting Words

The much-anticipated, long-awaited Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words explores ... words. Language, specific words, their purpose, sounds, meanings, the whole boundless concept of words. We are writers, aren't we? Words are our currency.
 
Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words
Tasting Words
By Neil Ellman

Say a word
Listen to its bouquet
Swirl it in a glass
And sip it slow
Let it linger on the tongue.

Repeat the sound
And savor it
As if it were a wine
Full and round
With hints of spice
Plums and bramble fruit.

Drink the word
A letter at a time
And know the taste
Of poetry.


Neil Ellman's poem Excerpt from the Diary of a Man Growing Old, December 20, 2009 appeared at vox poetica as part of Contributor Series 4: Aspects of the Elephant in February 2010.

Posted by Annmarie at 9/13/2010 9:50 PM
Categories: Contributor Series 6, today's words
Tags: Neil Ellman savor words poetry taste drink
 

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