By Novid Shaid, 2003

.

Using language

is like painting pictures

and shaping sculptures

in endlessly renewable ways.

You can choose, frame and fuse;

gel, mould or place;

shape, shift, then stretch;

cast to and fro;  weave below;

adjust and combine and compose;

connect or exploit or mingle;

fashion and shackle and sculpture;

shuffle around and sprinkle;

transpose, interject, integrate,

interpose, here and there, interweave;

rearrange, intersperse or reshuffle;

synthesise in a polished amalgam;

assemble as one, intermingle;

accumulate then amalgamate;

or manipulate to your own ends

words, which mutate or perpetuate;

clauses, that dictate or subordinate;

phrases which detonate or encapsulate

a universe of sound effects,

illusions, confusions and truths.

In the hands of an accomplished user,

words run like free-flowing paints

with strokes of all traceable weights,

spreading colours of every known hue,

raising tones which create shifting moods.

And each word that is utilised is

a subtle and measured brush stroke,

infusing with elating light

imbuing with pulsating life,

animating, stimulating, illuminating

the works of art:

the gallery of human life.