The Movement of Language

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There is a mesmerizing dance

of sounds and syllables;

a triumphant choreography

of symbols and ciphers;

a sizzling scintillation

of shouts and sighs…

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It happens

when language is

so eloquently stitched

that images and sensations

are spawned almost unbidden

in our imaginations.

Well-combined words,

whether read or heard,

can take us for a while

to another place and time.

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The dance of words.

The hide and seek.

The thrust and parry.

The jump, the slide, the pause.

The twist and the twirl.

The calm emergence.

The nerve-jangling suspense,

and the jarring revelation.

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The writer’s palette

grants entry to worlds beyond,

and the enraptured reader

dances boldly onward.

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