Poetry – I hold my breath – A poem about symbols and communication.

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I find it amazing that I can have ideas, thoughts and images in my head that I transform into solid words. I can write those words as symbols using letters. Someone else who I have never seen can come along and scan those symbols, fused in ink upon a page, and translate them back into thoughts, ideas and images. They can communicate the same visions and feelings I was having at the time.

My visions are frozen into concrete meaning forever.

Long after I am gone people will be able to scan those symbols and understand what was going on in my head.

Isn’t that astounding?

From the universe within my head I speak to the universe within your head via coded messages.

I hope we see the same pictures!

I Hold my Breath

I hold my breath

And exhale it into these words

Trapped in ink upon a page.

I scan my thoughts

And pour them out

To be imprisoned in symbols.

I snare the moments

In my mind and freeze them

Forever into this ice.

I sense my feelings

And express them in inadequate

Markings on paper.

I speak from here

Inside the depths of my head

To you who might be reading.

Somehow against all the odds

You see the black and white

And recreate the colour pictures

That I envisaged.

Communication is the wonder of life!

 

Opher 23.8.2015

5 thoughts on “Poetry – I hold my breath – A poem about symbols and communication.”

  1. I think that is a feeling of wonder that sneaks up and surprises all writers at some time or other. It’s nothing less than a revelation, and your wrote about it beautifully.

  2. Reblogged this on Impromptu Promptlings and commented:
    Opher is a new friend I met on Plato’s blog. I’m enjoying reading his blog and getting to know him. I loved this little revelation-turned-poem by him. Please stop by his blog and have a look around. He’s a wonderful writer.

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