Poetry Time
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DICTIONARY
I wend my way through Webster's tome,
Choosing words that tickle the ear.
Abaft, agnomen, ancipital,
Bifurcate and bobbery, Calipash, compendium,
Dap and dermis and diatribe,
Eddo, epicene, feaze, frisket,
Gamogenesis, gonfalon.
Hebetate and hippocampus,
Icterus, impi, intonate,
Jalap, jitney, kern and khan,
Lectionary, lithomarge,
Macrophyte and malversation.
Middest means I'm halfway there.
Nekton, nixie, orthoclastic,
Papillary, quinoline,
Rallentando, retroversion,
Scaraboid and septifragal,
Telamon and trumpery.
Umbel, ungula, vernal, viole
Wernerite, wimble, whirlgig,
Xenophobia, yean, younker,
Zaffer, zither and zymurgy.
The music of words from A to Zee,
If only I knew what they all mean,
How very word wise I would be.
© Frank Brummet
* This poem was written by Dave's father, who enjoyed studying the art of poetry. Here he plays with unusual words.
It was published in Poetic Wanderings, the 3rd book of our Playing With Words series.
Poetic Wanderings
Poetry has this unique ability to heal as it is being written, just as it heals when it is being read.
For Dave's father, Frank Nick Brummet, it began with a few published poems in high-school annuals.
He wrote his first serious poem titled Sentinel On The Hill in the '70's & it was published in the Okanagan Historical Society Report.
By 1996 the muse had struck & he began to write and study writing in earnest.
Delve into this poetic journey celebrating love, reflections on nature & a lifetime of memories today.
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