Bone Words

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After the "Fragments of the Women's Writing" by Ursula le Guin

      She reported that a group of elderly Hunan women were using a secret, ancient script handed down from the oracle bone carvings of the Shing Dynasty (16th Century BC) and the writing of the Chin Dynasty (3rd Century BC).

The old woman said
these are the forbidden characters
bone words spoken

upside down
These are the bone words
spoken mother to daughter

wrapped in silk
sung by the fire
These are the fingers

of the silk embroideries
hung by the fire
upside down

They are the daughters
speaking in fire words
forbidden to speak

the women in their silks
eyes to the ground
These are the forbidden secrets

written in bone
spoken finger to eye
whispered in fire

M.S.Leavitt
"Jd4george"

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tazz317tazz317over 11 years ago
THE MAGI ORACLES

hold silence and secrets, TK U MLJ LV NV

LeBrozLeBrozover 17 years ago
~~

Anything written of something secret or hidden

Has about it an almost mystical aura.

twelveoonetwelveooneover 19 years ago
My God!

you know about this??

I do not object to the use of "bone" here, which a find to a bit of a poet's cliche.

I am sorry I missed this first time around

I humbly bow

dcpoet44dcpoet44over 19 years ago
to me it conjures....

up the principles of philosophy with buddhism in mind, but yet also leaves a mystical presence. that is what i pulled out of the piece. very nice jd

WickedEveWickedEveover 19 years ago
I like the repetition

throughout the poem. It holds it together nicely and makes it really sing.

*no thermometer rating

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