Advice on Choosing a Next Language

Or, to perform as a sunset shared with multitude,
or, to soothe as a pot of tea with special few,
or, to be sipped alone beneath a lamp.

Advice on Choosing a Next Language

Bob Komives

Or, to be enjoyed as you enjoy a favorite poem,
dusted, repeated every year or two;
or, perhaps (as your one-perfect-encounter)
to be enjoyed in full-life,
savored in full-memory.

Or, to attract most the eye,
accord best an ear,
flavor but the tongue,
or, to inhabit mind and heart alone
with mystery, history, humility.

Or, if utility must still fund your choice,
choose what is today-still-spoken
or, what was one-time-written.
Choose third from left,
perhaps, bottom right.
Or, choose that one
which this floating bit of dust might touch.

Bob Komives :: Fort Collins © 1996 :: Advice on Choosing a Next Language :: ,9632

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