Palace of Pile

A   L   O   H   A  !
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" Life loves 

to be taken by

 the lapel and told,

 'I'm with you kid.

 Let's go.' "

Maya Angelou

Any piece of writing,

from a letter to a book

can fly or

it can fail.

It might be a Palace

of  Thought, Wonder,

Delight.

Or it may be

just a pile of words,

taking the same hours 

of assembly 

but never taking off.

Think of a violin.

(Did you HEAR 

a violin when you

thought of it?)

A woman good with

tools, could cut,

shape, polish,

all of the parts

that go into a violin.

But an instrument maker

turns those same parts

into an instrument,

not just a novelty.

It takes more

than piling up words

to make sense, 

to persuade, to heal.

Too many books

are false fronts like a

 pioneer town.

I trust few words.

Among them:

"Thank You, dear Friends"

I like to mean

what I say.

           Fondly, Cloudia

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