https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/ Elise Matthesen - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:04:21 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios elisem personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/43192/64076 https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/ 100 99 https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2015434.html Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:04:21 GMT https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2015434.html A poet with paper and pen is in business.&nbsp;<div>Don't let them know what you're doing.</div><div>Remember to keep your tools sharp.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>Brush up on your covert ops skills.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Don't let them know what you're doing.</div><div>Poets know how to get past the borders.&nbsp;</div><div>Brush up on your covert ops skills.&nbsp;</div><div>It helps to look abstract, or pretty, or simple.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Poets know how to get past the borders.&nbsp;</div><div>A poem can be a way of smuggling truth.</div><div>It helps to look abstract, or pretty, or simple;&nbsp;</div><div>Some poems are strong enough to bear that.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>A poem can be a way of smuggling truth.</div><div>Bones speak louder than official histories.&nbsp;</div><div>Some poems are strong enough to bear that.</div><div>A poet can owe a debt of story to a bone.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Bones speak louder than official histories.</div><div>Some things demand that we tell how they happened.&nbsp;</div><div>A poet can owe a debt of story to a bone&nbsp;</div><div>Or a stick, a charred stub, white stones, blood.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Some things demand that we tell how they happened.</div><div>A poet with paper and pen is in business,&nbsp;</div><div>Or a stick, a charred stub, white stones, blood.&nbsp;</div><div>Remember to keep your tools sharp.&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>-- Elise Matthesen&nbsp;</div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elisem&ditemid=2015434" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/2015434.html keep your tools sharp poetry poem pantoum public 4