One of a series of collaborative NFTs by digital artist Paul Petersen, aka SphericalArt, and Charlotte Hart, poet.
WORD CLOUDS
From the edge of the earth voices escape
into the air, and past the atmosphere.
Conversations of daily affairs, forgotten soon after leaving lips,
fly up into darkness embraced into silent space.
First words of humanity, the joy of expression
and the beginning
of the creation of the world
in each mouth.
Seven thousand different tongues are expressing what matters
and what becomes a global perfume.
This heady bloom of every spoken language
clings to thoughts that are carried away
like petals in a breeze.
Differences begin to blend in harmony,
into a landscape beyond translation.
The global effort to be known
to know, to tell, to show,
rises in the action of spoken hope.
Words, each a thought with a name,
used for love or abuse, lift their life into silent space.
Layers of every language become
a spiritual archeology of future deciphering
and linger in clouds that blend and unite all.
