INK

BY: GUILLERMO CASTILLO

(PANGASINAN)
 INK

Bottled in glass prison

Meaningless in itself
Black and mute without a language
Silent but strongly urged
To speak
 INK

Chance-impressed on white
Inarticulate unintelligible chaotic
Welcome on the bareness of white
But still foreign
Excommunicate.
 BUT INK

Pen-lifted pen-impressed
On blank white paper
Will- ordered
Interprets intensifies clarifies
Expresses
Life.
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AUDIENCE
 POET
 READERS

SUBJECT
 INK- AN INSTRUMENT FOR
EXPRESSION
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THEME
 EXPRESSION

TONE
 IRONIC
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FIGURE OF SPEECH
Ink
Bottled in glass prison
Meaningless in itself METAPHOR
Black and mute without a language
Silent but strongly urged
To speak
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