I Hear Words

Words dance in my head, poems start to rhyme, songs start to sing. 

Sentences form and create visualized thoughts that bounce around from

one eye to another.

What should I do with these words? How do I stream them out in meaningful ways? 

Who gave me these verbs and pronouns, and vowels and consonances? 

Is it my responsibility to use them as I please or pass them from one form to another,

from one tap on a keyboard to a rainbow of creativity? 

Will anyone care, will anyone want to see them, how will they be received.

Are they uplifting, vilifying, ingratiating, educating, entertaining, memorable,

heartfelt, or humorous?

Am I just wasting space? 

Will I be read, will you dance with me. 

Mike Rosen 3.26.2021

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

2 thoughts on “I Hear Words

  1. Mike, this reply is really about all the blog posts you’ve posted so far. They’re wonderful! Such passion and intensity. Of course, I’ve known for 35 years that you are a excellent observer and interpreter of what you see (diagnosing the cognitive limitations of clients, for example), but your focus was mostly visual (although you wrote a lot of great headlines as a designer). Now, here you are expressing yourself almost entirely in words. It takes a writer to appreciate the magnitude of this shift…and I do. I welcome you to the august fraternity of writers! Keep going. Have fun.

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