notes and chords

If language is our instrument, the words and phrases are our notes and chords.

[This cannot be a new thought.]

finer points

The members of the workshop were much too comfortable using power tools, when precision instruments were called for.

poet's song

Folk singers: poets who can play the guitar.

vuvuzelas

People may have a differing opinions about these simple instruments that turn a football stadium into a hive of sound, but there is hardly a word more fun to say than ‘vuvuzelas’, and hardly a better one-word poem during this time of the FIFA World Cup.

intrument of intimacy

After the advent of email, only the poem was left to replace the letter as an instrument of intimate communication.