Twenty-Six
26 characters are all I have
to express the emptiness and joy,
the throbbing and the ecstasy.
26 characters bracketed, dashed,
lined, paragraphed, grouped
and end-stopped periodically.
26 characters tussled and tossed
like chicken bones thrown
by a Shaman seeking truth.
26 characters carefully queued
and collated with a chary caution;
lined horizontally and stacked vertically.
26 characters afloat in my soup;
they jump from the spoon
and refuse to be digested.
26 characters are all I have
to express my love and endurance;
my desire for but a glimpse of you.
SMG
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19 comments:
I cried reading this.
It touches on so many levels.
eden
Really enjoyed this fun piece! cheers, Jason
A cool piece!
its all in what you do with that limited number of characters....some days it is enough, some days we want for more...and struggle on to capture...pretty cool piece man....
Amazing what can be done, and what has already been done through the ages, with just 26 characters.
You have written the importance of something we so often take for granted -- 26 characters. The last stanza is sad....but so gut-level real!
Awesome write. Really well put together.
Awesome write. Really well put together.
Very nicely done.>KB
This is so well done! I adore the chicken bone stanza.
I love the lines " 26 characters tussled and tossed
like chicken bones thrown
by a Shaman seeking truth." Sometimes when I write, I feel like I'm just tossing characters around the page!
A lot things to be done & painted with those 26 characters ~
That last line though is specially sweet ~
Very sweet write!
Yes, that is all it takes, just 26 of them. Enjoyable read.
Pamela
Outstanding, SMG! Clever and imaginative too. A really cool write working with the number 26. Honestly, love it.
I only need to use 15 of them to tell you how good this is...
...and the amazing thing is that 26 characters are all we need... i also think the same when it comes to music...12 tones...that's it...and millions and millions of different, gripping, wonderful melodies..
Hi! I sometimes refer to myself as 26
tF
or 6 and 20
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26 characters, yes...but you have grasped the secret how to arrange them.
Joining those characters, as much as possible, sight, spoken words, (inflections, stresses)
tell more of the story sometimes.
Thanks for your visit.
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