Saturday, April 18, 2009

With friends like these


Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.*
  — Rudyard Kipling


With friends like these
       (please-ing, tease-ing, appease-ing, defease-ing, ...,
        fleece-ing, freeze-ing, seize-ing, release-ing, ...)
who needs mortal enemies
or recreational pharmacies?

Words are the keys
that unlock humanity's
unspoken pleas.



for Read Write Poem: if she really were your friend
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* cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-305403,articleId-8036.html


9 comments:

  1. Yes, words are powerhouses.

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  2. Love this:Who need mortal enemies/or recreational pharmacies

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  3. This was very poignant - and a deeply rooted truism...
    ...rob

    Come learn what I Will Not Forget

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  4. friends indeed..we are ALL friends my friend

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  5. I like how you riffed off of Kipling's quote.

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  6. With poems like these,
    new friends are a guarantee...
    Thanx for sharing & bringing smiles :)

    D a r i n a

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  7. "Words are the keys
    that unlock humanity's
    unspoken please."

    What a GREAT line! I tip my hat to you.

    http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/special-onesnapowrimo-19by-me.html

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