Words Can Be

Gems

Maps

Ideas

Music

Rooms

Seeds

Tools

Winds

Labels

Leaves

Namers

Noises

Places

Shells

Sounds

Things

Actions

Banners

Objects

Signals

Symbols

Too few

Diamonds

Focusers

Humblers

Precious

Purposes

Segments

Idea pegs

Insignias

Inspirers

Clarifiers

Comforters

Describers

Emissaries

Preservers

Reflectors

Signifiers

Wild winds

Influencers

Life givers

Little jars

Refreshment

How we think

Fingerprints

Little bombs

Raw material

Small things

Articulations

Best when old

Brief remarks

Swarming bees

Living things

Spoken sounds

Truth tellers

A prescription

Basic elements

Idea corallers

Reality making

Signs of ideas

Sounding brass

World changers

Best when short

Born of thought

Careful choices

Not real things

Sound and smoke

Supreme objects

Suspended ideas

Tangible things

Visible objects

Witnesses to life

Written records

A type of action

Acoustical signs

Action prompters

Beautiful stones

History creators

Images of things

Meaning carriers

Motes of thought

Silence breakers

Sometimes enough

The mind's wings

Tinkling cymbals

Truth containers

What makes songs

A little lacework

Drops pressed out

Emotion provokers

Fuzzy substitutes

Jewels to possess

Keys to our souls

Music to the mind

Substance strange

Things which mean

What makes poetry

Between the spaces

Food that sustains

Symbols of notions

Tears written down

Tools we work with

Weapons that wound

A little embroidery

Containers of faith

Healers of the sick

Insight instigators

Musical instruments

Separated by spaces

Substitutable units

A mind-focusing lens

Bitter but important

Containers for power

Emotion interpreters

Frames of our worlds

Confetti in the mind

Symbols of relations

The pen of the heart

The wings of actions

What we hold on with

Where thought begins

Character indications

Not things themselves

Idea delivery vehicles

Maps to our intentions

The clothes of thought

The music of the world

The shadows of actions

The soul's ambassadors

The voice of the heart

Written representation

Mechanism of reflection

Sensible marks of ideas

Skins of living thought

The doctors of the mind

What sticks to the real

Mighty miraculous things

Pictures of our thoughts

Sounds that have meaning

Fond of their own society

Things that help and heal

Carriers of creative power

Fossilized butterfly wings

Dew falling upon a thought

Quaint and beautiful shapes

The wellspring of the world

A path taking us only so far

Distinct meaningful elements

Pleasant colours and lustres

Our greatest natural resource

Serpents with venomous stings

Something we carry in our head

The smallest segments of sound

Wealth that can be distributed

What lights a fire in the mind

Pale shadows of forgotten names

Beads on the strings of sentences

Little gifts, containing meanings

In between the spaces of sentences

Indications of what’s in the heart

Weights that hold history in place

Poor holders of joy, grief or wonder

A vague shadow of the volumes we mean

Chameleons, reflecting the environment

Evidence of the condition of the heart

Small shapes in the chaos of the world

The part of silence that can be spoken

What constructs a world that makes sense

Intermediaries between thought and things

What wrings tears from the hardest hearts

Planets, with their own gravitational pull

Crumbs that fall from the feast of the mind

Of things that do not exist without the words

What is needed to share the enormity of our lives

Building blocks we use to construct our life and future

Bright angels, crowding round us with heaven's light upon their wings

Little audible links, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purpose