Enchanting
Keith Lankford 1964 (AL)
Words sweeping pages
Often casting spells
Cursing the air around them
If cursive is used well
Calling
Judges Juries
All rise even the dead
Bailiff Baah present to us
The summoned one he pled
Gates
They slowly open
Pass through enter, dwell
The words used in court
Are not for you used well
Never even knowing
You to them as well
are a
Sacrificial Lamb
The Latin way it’s Spelled
A sheep
A pawn
A sacrificial lamb
Person
But a thing
Felon
Oh the Felon
They are not laughing
Just as a man walking into a crowd, smiling and ushering greetings to ones around him
Just as a man walking into a crowd yelling and screaming at ones around him
The frequencies echoed in the words we speak cast themselves into the air
Received by those around us
All frequencies beings
Love and hate are spread quickly
Anger and sadness
Love
Or
Hate
noun: necromancy, magic, enchantment.
Gramarye (also spelled «gramary») comes from a Middle French word meaning «book of sorcery», but also «grammar» or «grammar book». Though modern English speakers don’t tend to mix their grammar with their sorcery, in medieval times the Latin word grammatica (and its lexical descendants in other languages) referred to (among other things) learning in general, which in those dark ages was understood by the unschooled populace of Europe to include magic and astrology.
Blacks law dictionary for Latin translations of common words found used in Roman Maritime and Common law
About this poem
A poem looking at the meaning of words- spells = spelling // curses = cursive
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Submitted by Keithdalankford on November 11, 2021
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXA BXCDC XEAXABAXFX XXF EBEEB GGXDXHD X H X |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,464 |
Words | 265 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 10, 3, 5, 7, 1, 1, 1 |
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