Calculated Haze
How modern is the notion that the pen
And keyboards on machines should write out clear
Communications? Ancients, writing men,
Preferred elastic meanings. Like a wier
Their words held back their welling meaning, deep,
Or dark, or playful, even riddle, pun,
And anagram requiring minds to leap
Above or dive down through to find the fun.
A clever murkiness was highly held
In secular and sacred written lines.
Long similes and metaphors would meld
With synaesthesia in their secret signs.
..No paradox was needed in land deeds,
……But poetry required some drilled in seeds.