Get paid, the pen is mightier than the sword

2009-03-07T08:51:00.000-08:00

It has been said that the pen is mightier than the sword and today indeed the pen of the writer can either make you or break you. The slogan on the internet for writers these days is get paid to blog, get paid to write, get paid to share your thoughts, get paid to write articles, get paid to write poems, get paid to write a song, get paid to write about computers, get paid to write about health, get paid to write about politics, get paid to write about religion, get paid to write women’s issues, get paid to write about cooking, get paid to write about lawyers, get paid to write sports, get paid to gossip, get paid to write anything, and the list goes on.

In our present economy who wouldn’t be stimulated by the thought of getting paid? Who wouldn’t mind walking around the house in their underwear, pick up the pen, write something and get paid for it. It is the age of the internet and the power of words and phrases rule. The search engines call them key words and each word cost the advertiser cash.

Search for a word in a search engine and a whole bunch of keywords and phrases, sentences, and some of them meaningless are listed. If your name is popular it has a high price, if you are an unknown name somewhere then your name is not worth zilch. Eventually, we have approached the age of the power of names and words. The internet is the place to be to have a business and socialize these days. Your website is your store front, you may occupy it yourself or lease it out.

Blogs are worth money these days, and some of them are charging real money to lease space on their blog. The higher the value of the keywords in your blogs in relation to a business the more you get for your store front weblog. We have come full circle and indeed the pen is finally mightier than the sword. In line of this thought here is a poem titled “the pen is mightier than the sword” from the book The Trinity of lights, by Ken Nunoo

my pen is my magic wand
it performs miracles of its own
later, when my mind reads
what my pen has written
my mind wonders, where my pen had such ideas.

my pen is my magic wand
with my pen, I write names divine
then lo, and behold, miracles divine occur
with my pen, I write names holy
then lo, and behold diseases are cured

the pen is mightier than the sword
what is written by my pen, may last a thousand years
what is spoken by my mouth, may last but a day
my pen is my magic wand.

my pen is my magic wand
Yod, Aleph, He, my pen writes
Yod, He, Vau, He, my pen writes
Aleph, Lamed, He, Yod, Mem, my pen writes
these names divine my pen writes
these names holy my mouth speaks.

my pen is my magic wand
on white paper my pen draws a circle
within the circle my pen draws another circle
within the circle my pen draws a large cross

to the east of the cross my pen writes, Aleph, Resh, Yod, Aleph, Lamed
to the west of the cross my pen writes, Tau, Aleph, Resh, Samek, Yod, Shin
to the south of the cross my pen writes, Shin, Resh, Aleph. Pe
to the north of the cross my pen writes, Kaph, Resh, Vau, Beth
within the double circle my pen writes
"they pierced my hands, my sides, and my feet
I may tell my bones"
my pen is my magic wand.

Ken Nunoo
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