Baby's Breath Poem by Macy (Nina) Dvirnak

Baby's Breath

Rating: 4.8


Doubt ye not,
The power of words,

For they can build up,
Or they can desrtoy.

Like firey arrows,
From the tongue they fly-

They can give life,
Or cause one to die.


Words,
They be not something,
With which to toy-

Words can wrought sorrow,
Or bless one with joy,

Words can bring one
Sweet memories,
or painfu panging of regret.


So speak ye not,
words of death,
But rather words
which be sweet-

Baby's breath.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kelly Kurt 19 March 2015

Would but everyone see words the way you do.

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Godfrey Morris 19 March 2015

Great poem cleverly crafted let us speak words that give life.

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Jasbir Chatterjee 19 March 2015

This is a beautiful poem and certainly deserves to be the poem of the day today...Yes, doubt ye not, words do have great power...

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Bernard F. Asuncion 18 August 2017

Nice one... congrats for being picked today... a perfect 10++++++

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Lantz Pierre 18 August 2018

This is all naked rhetoric, assertions without an argument. Show me, don't tell me. I might agree but I haven't been learned anything new. I haven't experienced the pain or elation. Only the boredom.

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Macy Na 17 November 2019

Baby's breath is a flower.

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Mahtab Bangalee 18 August 2018

acutely said- Words can wrought sorrow, Or bless one with joy great10++++

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Khairul Ahsan 18 August 2018

'Words, They be not something, With which to toy- Words can wrought sorrow, Or bless one with joy' - - So true! I also liked the comparison, sweetness to a baby's breath.

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Chandan Dey 18 August 2018

It’s a poem which tells us an eternal truth in a magnificent way. Thanks for sharing your thought with us. Chandan

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Adrian Flett 18 August 2018

A wonderful rhyme and structure in the poem. 'Doubt ye not' and 'speak ye not'; the use of ye is telling in its ancientness and universality, which tells us of Baby's Breath and the ancientness or oldness of life. 'Words, They be not something' stresses the two lines through the use of syntax.

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