Tasted Words
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Tasted Words
I won’t let words just fall out of my mouth;
I will taste my words before I speak them.
How do the words taste?
Are they sweet, sour or bitter?
I won’t let words just fall out of my mouth;
I will check how they feel before I speak them.
How do the words feel?
Are they warm, cold or hot?
I won’t let words just fall out of my mouth;
I will check the texture before I speak them.
How do they rub on my tongue?
Are they fibrous with health benefits or gritty with dirt?
I won’t let words just fall out of my mouth;
I will check the origin before I speak them.
Where do they come from?
Do they emerge from a treated, nurtured heart or an infested, wounded heart?
I won’t let words just fall out of my mouth;
I will taste them before I speak them.
Words are to be spoken not spat like venom.
I will check the words before they come out of my mouth.
I won’t let words just fall out of my mouth;
I will feel them before I speak them
Words are to be spoken, not vomited in sickness.
I will check the words before they come out of my mouth.
I won’t let words just fall out of my mouth;
I will check that they are meaningful and graceful.
Words are to be fitly spoken and not an empty yawn;
I will check the words before they come out of my mouth.
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Bring Back Our Ladies and Young Boys
Torn apart, torn apart
Torn but can be mended
Broken heart, broken heart
Broken but can be mended
Weeping eyes, weeping eyes
Weeping but can be comforted?
Wounded petals, wounded petals
By thorns that can be broken.
Bring back, bring back
Our ladies and young boys stolen
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If words are nothing but just words, why do they have so much power? Words spoken spitefully create deep wounds, while gracious words encourage, build up, and heal hurts. Spoken words are unseen but powerful. By revealing that words are like pedestrians, Titilayo demonstrates how words walk in our lives. Why do words have so much impact? How are our lives shaped by the words we speak and receive?
In Tasted Words, Titilayo reflects on the power of words, which may be spoken, written, or captured in pictures that “speak more than a thousand words.” Tasted Words is a collection of short stories and poetry with reminders, messages of love, and encouragement. In Tasted Words, Titilayo uses cues that are helpful reminders to challenge you to stop and think about your words, thoughts, and actions. This inspiring collection will challenge you to live purposefully, consider wisely, and interact graciously. Tasted Words also comprises poems that have arisen as a result of Bible study, life musings, and social crises. Titilayo intends to use part of the proceeds from Tasted Words in works of charity to the support victims of social crises.
About the Author
Titilayo D.O. Falade is a wife, mother, poet, photography enthusiast, and PhD research student at the University of Queensland. Some of her poems, including “Nature,” “The Stranger,” “Blindness,” and “Numbness,” have been published in poetry collections. She volunteers with nonprofit groups involved in works of charity to society’s vulnerable. She lives in Ibadan, Nigeria with her husband Kolawole O. Falade, and their son Toluwanimi.