Poetry on Convoluted Meanings https://convolutedmeanings.com/tags/poetry/ Recent content in Poetry on Convoluted Meanings https://convolutedmeanings.com/images/og-card.jpg https://convolutedmeanings.com/images/og-card.jpg Hugo -- gohugo.io en Fri, 15 May 2026 18:24:28 +0200 My Language https://convolutedmeanings.com/posts/my-language/ Fri, 15 May 2026 18:24:28 +0200 https://convolutedmeanings.com/posts/my-language/ <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span class="line"><span class="cl">I don’t neatly fall </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">onto the library shelves between domestic and foreign literature </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">my tongue slides down the alveolar ridge </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">don’t touch the teeth, you sound foreign! </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">I am not foreign to myself </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">I miss the playful tails of the nasal vowels </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">wiggling in my sight </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">Give me some rustling noise </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">And I enjoy my ashes and shwas </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">my long “a” and when I roll my tongue unexpectedly (I violate the canon) </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">and here I am </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">with my messy repertoire of phonemes </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">hands in the clay </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">I’m sculpting something very real </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">I am exposed </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">by my surname </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">by my nature </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">by the playful act of creation </span></span></code></pre></div>