The Secret Of The White Talking Leaves

A Poem for the Writer's Cramp Contest

The Secret Of The White Talking Leaves


White talking leaves
They hide it all
From Moses’ tale
To Rome’s great fall

From Little Women
To Mice and Men
From Leaves of Grass
To Poe's great Pen

This Hallowed Ground
Of war’s great cost
To Shakespeare’s play
Love’s Labor Lost

Of Superman
In comic books
To coffee house poems
In beatnik nooks

To make them talk
You can’t just wait
To hear the words
You concentrate

Pry them open
Hold them near
Then use your eyes
The words you’ll hear

Those books of leaves
Tell all man’s walks
You need just read
To make them talk