Poets Corner: Treasure Hunt
Treasure Hunt
I picked up the dictionary today.
You say:
Where can treasure be found
between pages bound
with words of printed sound?
I say:
The properties of ink
might well wash down the sink
if not like golden fleece
we gather piece by piece
to symbolize a word.
Like treasure underground
the ideas it relates
like Spanish pieces of eight
to spend our thoughts on words
makes you richer.
You say: Absurd
I say:
When your gold is spent you'll sit back
and repent
then you will relent
and observe
between the pages bound
the book of printed sound
I dug not from the ground
but like a treasure found
they mark my thoughts with sound.
Their value, you might say,
is in the special way
our thoughts are symbols linked
not by gold
but printer's ink.
And now that treasure's found,
spend your thoughts.
Lenny Hall is a student and observer of life without formal credentials, who finds inspiration on Martha's Vineyard.
The Martha's Vineyard Times welcomes contributions to Poet's Corner. Dan Waters, former poet laureate of West Tisbury, will select poems to be published here. Submissions should be directed to dan@indianhillpress.com.
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