A Word Can

Act

Map

Fly

Drop

Cost

Open

Link

Live

Name

Grow

Mean

Focus

Close

Label

Leave

Swarm

Place

Shape

Spark

Sting

Sound

Wound

Humble

Object

Expand

Colour

Signal

Record

Clarify

Comfort

Sparkle

Sustain

Inspire

Explode

Enclose

Reflect

Refresh

Segment

Signify

Suspend

Be alone

Describe

Be given

Be music

Light up

Preserve

Separate

Be taken

Embroider

Prescribe

Fossilize

Influence

Give life

Be spoken

Symbolise

Be a tear

Be a tool

Make song

Represent

Articulate

Make noise

Mark ideas

Tell truth

Be visible

Be acoustic

Be tangible

Make poetry

Corall ideas

Put together

Reality make

Have meaning

Prompt action

Contain power

Contain faith

Heal the sick

Carry meaning

Help and heal

Contain truth

Focus the mind

Create history

Clothe thought

Be distributed

Change a world

Provoke emotion

Deliver an idea

Doctor the mind

End the silence

Voice the heart

Help us hold on

Witness to life

Be best when old

Frame our worlds

Contain meanings

Change everything

Interpret emotion

Instigate insight

Break the silence

Stick to the real

Be best when short

Be born of thought

Indicate character

Be wisely improved

Be a building block

Fall upon a thought

Picture our thoughts

Gravitationally pull

Tinkle like a cymbal

Map to our intentions

Hold history in place

Lie between the spaces

Be carried in our head

Be bitter but important

Light a fire in the mind

Hold joy, grief or wonder

Carry creative power

Indicate what’s in the heart

Be dropped carefully on a page

Share the enormity of our lives

Construct a world that makes sense

Evidence the condition of the heart

Lie between the spaces of sentences

Wring tears from the hardest hearts

Be a bead on the string of a sentence

Be a vague shadow of the volumes we mean

Fall from the feast of the mind like a crumb

Be an intermediary between thought and things

Chain together great inaudible feelings and purpose