Soundzine

GIVE TONGUE

read by jennifer bower

I lie away the life of wonder

and vex the drone of days,
I wile away in wanton slumber

while crafting my next phrase.

Penning a slight of tongue well versed

or worse, a salacious lie

I hold in my hands a truth unknown
set free between the lines.

My metaphors bear resemblances,

my tautologies do repeat.

I sprinkle hyperbole for effect,
my meters wag their feet.

Pithy though the verse may be,

words you say too brief,

my mouth gives tongue

to lingering truths

and deceit sullies up the sheets.

Jennifer Bower is a North Carolina based writer constantly trying to capture the condition of being human and nail it like Jell-O to the wall.   Publication credits and other random musings can be found on her blog "A Normal Nobody!" at http://johnsienoel.blogspot.com.