Tongues That Talk Through Time
By: T.J. Joiner
The Titlemens’ tongues talked through twilight,
Telling the thuruk te(1) that thread through time.
Thoughts that troubled the truth, twisting transcripts
Theories that targeted towns, to trades, to townsmen.
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The tabescent, trivial townsmen,
Talking thoughts through time
Teaching toddlers tactics to takeoff,
Tower-over those that tower’d them through trial.
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Treachery terrifies those Titlemen.
They trick, tuck-away their talentless thoughts.
Talking to the taxmen to tear the trivial to tribulation.
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The throbbing thinlung(2) the townsmen tote
Thinking thoughts to tránh-xa(3) the toll.
Til ‘ternity tides, the Titlemen talk,
Taxmen take, the Trivial trial.
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1-Thuruk te: 'Secrets" in the Mizo Language
2-Thinlung: 'Heart' in the Mizo Language
3-Tránh-xa: 'Avoid' in the Vietnamese Language
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Tremayne Joiner
Just a guy with too many stories in his head just trying to get them all written down...maybe one of them is something worth something
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