Channie Greenberg, Word Magpie

Talk's Deleterious Ribbons

Where links grow between new and existent scholarship,
Often, commonplace desires, those ruinous or somewhat
Venomous, as bounded by injurious phrases, get shoved
Toward weird matters of variety for adapting judgments.

If reiterating discoveries, synthesizing them into lone,
Expansive arguments, into starting points for forming
Excuses for semantic practices, for thinking's history,
For notions' impact on dealings, best to err shrewdly.

Talk's easily replicated when not limited by up-to-date
Linguistic sanctions, either pragmatic or semantic, else
Informally assessed, rejecting all manner of tendencies.
Cautions apropos consciousness' enormity gets tossed.

Beyond weariness about the socialization of knowledge,
Per critical reflections on collective interactions, naught
Separates icons or ideologies as morality's components.
Besides, norms, values, virtues bung up askew intrigues.

There's wee viability in alternate approaches' reflection
On relations. Rather, transcendence's accomplished by
Hybrid methods. Symbolic exchanges distress us. They
Mark creativity, self-concept, ways we transmit beliefs.

Far-reaching consequences, like replicas of the universe,
Might or not legitimize examinations into psychological
References, codified laws, rules, rhetorical enablement,
Exclusively optimal methodologies, full understandings.

Prepared discourse rewrites scripts, principled records,
Acknowledges when fighting most vernacular causality,
Points out informational dearths, fashions answerability
From complex statements concerning modestly existing.

Detailed, hands-on explorations of verbal dimensions'
Grasp of topical meaning, similar to transferred truths
Ordinarily clarifies many implicit and explicit effects,
May, equally, reconnoiter data from attendant editions.