impromptu 2

wordplay, this playground of poetry
  hide and seek, we are all here on a treasure hunt
  to find the exact right word we need to bandy
  this evening words are tantalizing floating in the air around us
  snatch them, catch them, catch them if you can
  if you can't catch them, coin them
  make up your own, fall under Shakespeare's spell
  when feelings can be deftly captured and released in living language
  then our poems coax our hearts out of their shell.

Elizabeth Shepherd   4/ 15/ 2014