Little girl child <br />discoverer of words <br />explorer of worlds <br />that sounds create <br /> <br />endlessly I <br />listen <br /> <br />to you <br />talking to <br />yourself <br /> <br />totally enraptured <br />as you introduce <br /> <br />the words <br />to yourself. <br /> <br />“Tilly...words! ” <br />“Words...Tilly! ” <br /> <br />“Come words come! ” <br />you command them <br /> <br />like a little Queen <br />as if they were living beings. <br /> <br />Weighing each sound <br />and its colour <br /> <br />you <br />taste them <br /> <br />on your tongue <br /> <br />measure them <br />in your mind <br /> <br />words full <br />of meaning <br /> <br />or no meaning at all <br /> <br />just sound <br />enjoying itself <br /> <br />this feast of <br />language <br /> <br />day by day <br />I give you gifts <br /> <br />of strange words <br />you have no use of <br /> <br />just for you <br />to enjoy <br /> <br />(it so annoys your Mum) . <br /> <br />“Kookabura! ” <br />“Kookabura? ” <br /> <br />You play with it <br />for hours <br />as if it were a toy. <br /> <br />telling me: “Tilly <br />being silly! ” <br /> <br />Now I listen to <br />you “Not-talk! ” <br /> <br />(as you call silence) <br /> <br />your mind still <br />visible <br /> <br />wrestling with words <br />inside your head <br /> <br />little girl child <br />explorer & discoverer <br /> <br />of the worlds <br />within words.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-discoverer-of-words-for-lyn/
