Oratory makes power

the power of words.
An eloquence of speech
combined with fluency of ideas.
Does charisma confound rhetoric
Or expand it
into a force for good or ill?

Oratory moves mountains
seduces the masses.
There is a power to words.
Declamatory speeches
laced with anaphora
sing to the soul.

Words written on the page,
Erudite compelling full

of truisms or falsehoods.
Words of power but which rendition?

The eloquence of oration or
the seductiveness of the written word?
Which wields the greatest power?
Or is all equal with the power of words?

Poetry relies on the power of words.

MaryB.