Wordstones

Morgan Sennhauser
Poem
A short poem about how legends are formed
2007
Last revised: September 18, 2007

Wordstones

footsteps on cobbles tapping hard
like fast moving fingers
exploding typewriter tape
stories told then hit the streets

shoes grinding up your grandfather's tale
off comes a piece and scattered it far
grains of stories all spread around
its the way legends happen

words washed by winds
into the curb flowing down
mix with the bedrock
tumble downstream

words flow down to ocean waves
sinking treasures bubbling downstream
washed ashore on a stormy day
mingle with beaches and the shells

up comes a girl with shovel and pail
scoops up some sand here comes our tale
press it down and there's a tower
this story of a story in a grain of sand