Words of Silver

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Although he had been through many stressful experiences in his life and recently, he always held onto his positive outlook.

There had been a time before he’d realized that viewing things optimistically improved life, but since the realization, he’d maintained the conscious habit.

He took particular care to use words intentionally, paying attention to their connotations, so that his positivity extended to those that he interacted with as well.

Listener Poet Beck Klassen

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

July 2021

Words of Silver

Dark clouds abound here,

But the attention is on

Their silver linings

Language, charged,

Slyly commands feeling; 

Escapes detection

For example:

Every “they” has a name;

Every “should,” a will

Words, I live by 

For life is best lived

With others

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