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