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Questions arising on reading Edmund Burkes

"A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origin

Of Our Ideas Of The Sublime And Beautiful"

                           (1753)

The word affects the mind

                    More than the

                    Sensible image

                                           That is

Words are mightier than pictures

                    With a more direct

                    Clarity - to signify

                                           their meaning

The visual image is ambiguous

                    Words have a positive force

                    No picture can imitate

                                           Yet

A pic is worth a lotta words

                    Why that - is it the vagueness

                    Of expression - Or is that

                                           its strength?

The positiveness of words are their intrinsic

                    Weakness - ultimately meaning

                    is deception - words no more

                                           than birdsong

                        Such simplicity they twitter

                               Charmed poem sounds

                               Tweet - tweet

                        Too simple to make a hash of

                               What is understood is

                               the passion of the matter

                        Song is not visual

                               nor is it wordbound

                               Whatever is - is

                                               Not a picture

                                               Not a poem

                                               Whole tomes

                                               Or archives

                                               Can change

                                                     a thing