Play Pen

By Ewan

Tue, 17 Jul 2018
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I have been learning

to build poems out of words:

lego-like pieces.

 

I have

constructed

nothing

recognisable.

 

Someone has given me

sticklebricks

and things have fallen apart

when the centre didn’t hold.

 

I will start again,

scatter the alphabet

blocks in the

playpen.

Make meaning

from the random...

Soon.

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Comments

Submitted by london_calling79 on

I can honestly say this is the only piece of writing I have ever encountered that references both Yeats and Sticklebricks. Inspired. I think you could mine the analogy/metaphor (I'm not sure of the difference) of the childish hands playing with / fumbling with language / toys for expressing feelings of words being difficult to build with.

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

"play pen" made me smile :0)

The way you have sticklebricks is like a punch line, but maybe this is just because it's  one of my favourite words, sounds olde english like pricklewig and stickleback. Lego much more industrial, efficient but less funny.