For readers who couldn’t make sense of the visual poem
(hint: it was not at all formatted for cell phone/mobile devices),
here it is in “regular” formatting:
Word Play
From our earliest days,
We learn to stack
Words together
In nice, tidy prose.
We build with them,
Placing like snap-blocks
That become structures.
These words
Help us make
Sense of our world.
Sometimes they line up quietly
across the page from left to right,
like kids waiting [im]patiently for recess.
Sometimes they march
In parallel lines...
Other times they boldly
Work from right to left.
Sometimes we don’t have the right words~
And we place them all wrong so they
are weak and easily toppled.
I like it best
when they behave,
flowing forth
upon my command,
helping me create
luminescent worlds
full of
mist and majesty.
This version uses mist instead of color because this version is not visually based on the idea of Lego type building blocks. It is loosely about building blocks, but more focused on using words as world-building tools.