If we could take stock and turn back the clock
on decisions we've long since regretted,
no need then to curse, just switch to reverse,
and our joy could quite well be unfettered.
Imagine if news gave well-informed views--
pointless tweets were no longer the topic.
The odds are, my friend, that at the day's end
we'd be feeling quite eucatastrophic.
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Author Notes
Today's word:
eucatastrophe (n.) a sudden and unexpected fortuitous event.
Coined in 1944 by J.R.R. Tolkien. I've elected to use the adjectival form here.
My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.
Thanks for reading.
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