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

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXA BXCDC XEAXABAXFX XXF EBEEB GGXDXHD X H X
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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